light-client-protocols.md

Light Client Protocols

Background

• A Primer on Ethereum Blockchain Light Clients by Raul Jordan
• Light Clients and Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin
• Stateless Client Concept by Vitalik Buterin

Deployed

Light Ethereum Subprotocol (LES)

• Design Principles
• Specfication

Parity Light Protocol (PIP)

• Specification

Proposed

Stateless Clients

• Stateless Client Concept by Vitalik Buterin
• Data from the Ethereum stateless prototype and The shades of statefulness (in Ethereum nodes) by Alexey Akhunov

FlyClient

• Proposal: "FlyClient: Super-Light Clients for Cryptocurrencies" (PDF) by Benedikt Bunz, Lucianna Kiffer, Loi Luu, , Mahdi Zamani
• Review

Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof of Work - NIPoPoWs

• Proposal: "Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work" (PDF) by Aggelos Kiayias and Andrew Miller and Dionysis Zindros
• Review

BlockQuick

• Proposal: "BlockQuick: Super-Light Client Protocol for Blockchain Validation on Constrained Devices" (PDF) by Dominic Letz
• Overview