Prysm: An Ethereum Consensus Implementation Written in Go

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📖 Overview

This is the core repository for Prysm, a Golang implementation of the Ethereum Consensus specification, developed by Offchain Labs.

See the Changelog for details of the latest releases and upcoming breaking changes.

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🚀 Getting Started

A detailed set of installation and usage instructions as well as breakdowns of each individual component are available in the official documentation portal.

💬 Need help? Join our Discord Community for support (this invite link never expires).

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🏆 Staking on Mainnet

To participate in staking, you can join the official Ethereum launchpad. The launchpad is the only recommended way to become a validator on mainnet.

🔍 Explore validator rewards/penalties:

• beaconcha.in
• beaconscan

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🤝 Contributing

🔥 Branches

Prysm maintains two permanent branches:

• master - This points to the latest stable release. It is ideal for most users.
• develop - This is used for development and contains the latest PRs. Developers should base their PRs on this branch.

🛠 Contribution Guide

Want to get involved? Check out our Contribution Guide to learn more!

🤖 AI Coding Agents

Shared agent instructions live in .agents/AGENTS.md. To use them, point your agent's config file at it from the repo root:

echo '@.agents/AGENTS.md' > ./AGENTS.md   # or ./CLAUDE.md

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

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⚖️ Legal Disclaimer

📜 Terms of Use