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Goal: <33% | Danger: >50%

Consensus Clients

Data provided by Sigma Prime's Blockprint — updated daily.
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Execution Clients

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The data is a representation of what clients are showing free peers and it's not well understood how this correlates to an overall picture of what clients are currently in use. For now, survey data (from execution-diversity.info) is considered the most reliable source of information for the state of execution client diversity.

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Data provided by supermajority.info — updated manually.
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Based on 59.4% self-reported network coverage with the remaining assumed to be mostly Geth.

Client Diversity Is Not Optional

Many know client diversity is important for a more resilient network, but they don't understand why or just how essential it is. It's not only important — it's critical. If a single client is used by 2/3rds (66%) of validators, there's a very real risk this can result in disrupting the chain and monetary loss [1, 2] for node operators.

It takes 2/3rds of validators to reach finality. If a client with 66%+ of marketshare has a bug and forks to its own chain, it'll be capable of finalizing. Once the fork finalizes, the validators cannot return to the real chain without being slashed. If 66% of the chain gets slashed simultaneously, the penalty is the whole 32 ETH.

So why is >50% marketshare still dangerous? If a minority client forks, the 50%+ majority client can obtain a 66%+ majority. With no client having a marketshare over 33%, these scenarios are avoided. That's why <33% marketshare is the goal for all clients.

Execution clients are not immune. The risks mentioned above apply to both consensus clients and execution clients equally.

Client Resources

Consensus Clients

Client Github Docs Chat Status Support Language Donate
Grandine betaLinux, Win, macOS--
Lighthouse stableLinux, Win, macOS, ARMRust
Lodestar stableLinux, Win, macOSTypeScript
Nimbus stableLinux, Win, macOS, ARMNim-
Prysm stableLinux, Win, macOS, ARMGolang
Teku stableLinux, Win, macOSJava

Execution Clients

Client Github Docs Chat Status Support Language Donate
Akula deprecated--
Besu stableLinux, Win, macOSJava
Erigon -alpha & betaLinux, Win, macOS, ARMGolang
EthereumJS alphaLinux, Win, macOSTypeScript
Geth stableLinux, Win, macOS, ARMGolang
Nethermind stableLinux, Win, macOS, ARM.NET
Nimbus pre-alpha-Nim-
Reth alphaLinux, Win, macOS, ARMRust-
Silkworm -pre-alphaLinux, Win, macOSC++

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