Lodestar Standup 2026-17 (May 5, 2026)

[matthewkeil]

Lodestar Standup

Tuesday May 5, 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

Interop

• https://soldogn.xyz/daily/mon/
• https://soldogn.xyz/resources/

Glamsterdam

• were super well prepared and ready for devnets
• can handle blobs
• PTC working well
• bid process, in PR for review
• external builder spec not finalized so not built yet
• devnet-0 - devnet-2 were launched
• tested with BALs
• devnet-2 is was only Prysm at the end and then Nethermind had bug and network died
• found bugs from devnet-2 and fixed them but network died
• devnet-3 is not scheduled yet, but will likely repeat spec from devnet-2
• EIP proposed for EL/CL independent sync. might get shut down or moved to Hegota
• need to work on proposer preferences endpoints (VC and BN)
• need to think though builder flow
• debugging checkpoint sync from skip slot checkpoint

Hegota

• starting work on FOCIL
• working with Besu and Lighthouse but LH is forking itself. Besu is sort of working

SSZ Engine API

BLST

• Got zig an lodestar PR's dialed in on bare metal. Perf is better than existing blst-ts
• Have perf regression when running under Docker. actively investigating

state-transition-z

• still have the Gloas PR but should not press to merge that
• get ST merged to lodestar behind feature flag
• merge in gloas work to zig side ONLY after its dialed in on JS implementation
• getting great perf improvements

zapi

• released version 1.0.0 🎉

Fast-Confirmation

• some last specs were merged
• got new spec implemented in our branch
• PR is ready for review and merge

Zig Roadmap

• Peer manager under way and will keep pushing that forward this week
• looking into alternate quic libraries that work better with 0.16 and IO pattern (instead of callbacks of existing lib)

Backfill

• active branch in the works. reworking the vedant brach and cleaning it up and re-refactoring