Lodestar Standup 2026-15 (April 14, 2026)

[matthewkeil]

Lodestar Standup

Tuesday April 14, 2026, · 3:00 – 4:00pm UTC
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/fwq-bhrs-pey

Please post any topics/comments below and we will add it to the stand-up discussion. Examples are issues, discussions or proposals that require feedback, consensus from the team and/or community members.

Agenda

Announcements

Glamsterdam

• Builder spec investigation
• Get sync finalized
• Get rest of stuff merged to unstable
• Reverting state-cache architecture in progress. Needs manual rollback.

SSZ Engine API

Execution Proofs

• Will re-engage after interop

Fast Confirmation Rule

• Tuyen spent some time reviewing
• There are a few implementation specifics that need to be updated to match the heuristics from Lighthouse
• Need a timing to understand how to improve performance from the baseline

Zig Roadmap

• Investigation for structured logging in lodestar-z
• Can maybe use log function-hook
• Cayman and Kai will work together to figure out what trade-offs vs benefits from different patterns
• Fork-Choice implementation is up to par with unstable and has been reviewed
• Will add more tests for fork-choice
• PeerManager and peer work is ready for review

Other Features

BLST

• Got the Zig code hammered out and
• Added some more metrics for feat2 to get info on aggregateWithRandomness

Backfill

• Working on first implementation for fulu and previous forks
• Updating the existing branch logic but will be fresh implementation

Backlog

Flat-Files for Data-Columns

• no movement this week
• will re-engage and try to get this moving again this week
• ready for review by @lodekeeper. will let soak and do a metrics analysis when we are ready
• ready for redeploy on a feat group

[matthewkeil]

Meeting minutes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XP-vJo2WnA-dk7t-SERsHTFb6nZuDWZvxYFe1Jy5ua0/edit?usp=sharing

Recording:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7HGtXxbFyzCPPx9pVndTx-O7YATipwf/view?usp=sharing

Full transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XP-vJo2WnA-dk7t-SERsHTFb6nZuDWZvxYFe1Jy5ua0/edit?usp=sharing