Fixes the issue described in #7980 where Lighthouse repeatedly sends `DataColumnsByRoot` requests to the same peers that return empty responses, causing sync to get stuck. The root cause was we don't count empty responses as failures, leading to excessive retries to unresponsive peers. - Track per peer attempts to limit retry attempts per peer (`MAX_CUSTODY_PEER_ATTEMPTS = 3`) - Replaced random peer selection with hashing within each lookup to prevent splitting lookup into too many small requests and improve request batching efficiency. - Added `single_block_lookup` root span to track all lookups created and added more debug logs: <img width="1264" height="501" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/983629ba-b6d0-41cf-8e93-88a5b96c2f31" /> Co-Authored-By: Jimmy Chen <jchen.tc@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Jimmy Chen <jimmy@sigmaprime.io>
Lighthouse: Ethereum consensus client
An open-source Ethereum consensus client, written in Rust and maintained by Sigma Prime.
Overview
Lighthouse is:
- Ready for use on Ethereum consensus mainnet.
- Fully open-source, licensed under Apache 2.0.
- Security-focused. Fuzzing techniques have been continuously applied and several external security reviews have been performed.
- Built in Rust, a modern language providing unique safety guarantees and excellent performance (comparable to C++).
- Funded by various organisations, including Sigma Prime, the Ethereum Foundation, Consensys, the Decentralization Foundation and private individuals.
- Actively involved in the specification and security analysis of the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus specification.
Staking Deposit Contract
The Lighthouse team acknowledges
0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa
as the canonical staking deposit contract address.
Documentation
The Lighthouse Book contains information for users and developers.
The Lighthouse team maintains a blog at https://blog.sigmaprime.io/tag/lighthouse which contains periodic progress updates, roadmap insights and interesting findings.
Branches
Lighthouse maintains two permanent branches:
stable: Always points to the latest stable release.- This is ideal for most users.
unstable: Used for development, contains the latest PRs.- Developers should base their PRs on this branch.
Contributing
Lighthouse welcomes contributors.
If you are looking to contribute, please head to the Contributing section of the Lighthouse book.
Contact
The best place for discussion is the Lighthouse Discord server.
Sign up to the Lighthouse Development Updates mailing list for email notifications about releases, network status and other important information.
Encrypt sensitive messages using our PGP key.
Donations
Lighthouse is an open-source project and a public good. Funding public goods is hard and we're grateful for the donations we receive from the community via:
- Gitcoin Grants.
- Ethereum address:
0x25c4a76E7d118705e7Ea2e9b7d8C59930d8aCD3b(donation.sigmaprime.eth).
