Vouch: Client Diversity without the Downsides
summary
Vouch is an open source validator client that runs against many beacon nodes in parallel, requests block proposals from each, and scores proposals in parallel to pick the best one before signing and submitting it to multiple nodes. It offloads state work to beacon nodes to avoid becoming a single point of failure, tolerates timeouts and network partitions, and already runs in production within attestant infrastructure. Roadmap targets Altair, sync committees and Merge-era eth1 integration.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:18Agenda
- 2:37What is Client Diversity
- 3:01Why Client Diversity
- 5:22Picking a Client
- 5:40Choosing the Least Popular
- 8:07Running Multiple Clients
- 8:39vouch
- 11:07Block proposals
- 15:53Impact of the merge
- 19:27Summary
- 21:44Outro
