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New Client for Ethereum 2.0, Nimbus: ready for staking on mobile phone

The Nimbus team launched its mobile client for Ethereum 2.0 and testing started yesterday.

The version can be downloaded on mobile devices through the Linux sandbox for Android, it is also possible to run version 1.0 of Ethereum.

The Nimbus team was created in March 2018 as a result of the work started with the success of Status Network, an ICO that raised more than $100 million in 24 hours.

The Ethereum Foundation has decided to support these capable and ambitious developers by granting them $650,000 in funding

The goal is to develop an alternative client to Mist and Parity and experiment with mobile use.

A smart choice, especially now that the Parity Team associated with Gavin Woods has made the difficult choice to leave Ethereum and go to Polkadot. 

Ethereum’s Parity client developments will be managed by a DAO established ad hoc in order not to undermine the work done so far.  

The Nimbus working group is currently in Brussels and is testing the new client on which one of the possible futures of Ethereum 2.0 is based.

According to Ratsimbazafy – the pillar of the project – the world is going in the direction of Smartphones, the global community that will be interfacing with Ethereum will do so on mobile, he says:

“If we want to reach those communities, blockchain needs to be mobile, this is even more important as often there is distrust in the centralized services and actors in those parts of the world.”

he continues:

“The team’s priorities for 2020 are to deliver and participate in a multiclient testnet with both desktop and mobile nodes, to audit and secure the client, to start implementing phase 1 and phase 2 of Ethereum 2.”

Ethereum nodes on Smartphones?

As we well know, the future of Ethereum will be Proof of Stake. To secure the network there will need to be nodes available online with large amounts of ETH staked to ensure that the system can validate the required transactions.

The penalties dictated by the code depend on how many stakers end up offline accidentally or intentionally. 

Having the ability to run a node on mobile phones could mitigate the risks for active network players.

The testing is therefore useful and functional for future developments of the protocol, although the difficulties are still many:

  • Consumption of batteries;
  • Storage space management;
  • Management of a high number of peers;
  • Network overload;
  • Data consumption.

These investigations can be extremely interesting for the development of Ethereum mobile dApps that will be optimized with Nimbus. The wallets and the entire ecosystem could benefit.

July 30th seems to be the new date for the Ethereum 2.0 genesis block, expectations are high. Justin Drake – core developer of ETH 2.0 – sees a 95% chance that the block will be released within the year.

 

Lorenzo Dalvit
Lorenzo Dalvit
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