Lodestar is an open-source, production-ready Ethereum consensus client written in TypeScript and maintained by ChainSafe Systems. Lodestar's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #43,663 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Lodestar is built for the TypeScript and JavaScript ecosystem, offering a full consensus-layer implementation that allows developers to participate in Ethereum's proof-of-stake network without relying on non-TypeScript clients. One of its distinguishing capabilities is light-client functionality, which enables verification of Ethereum consensus without running a full node. Lodestar participated in Ethereum Merge interoperability devnets and was made compatible with execution clients including Geth and Nethermind.
Lodestar has received backing from the Ethereum Foundation on multiple occasions. In August 2019, it received a $217.5K award for light-client and JavaScript development, and in November 2021, the Ethereum Foundation renewed its grant to support continued work on Lodestar and broader Ethereum tooling. Lodestar has accumulated 2,089 followers as of August 2026 and 672 posts since 2022. It has been mentioned by 43 accounts, with 141 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Lodestar include 79 founders, 22 angel investors, 27 influencers and 1 VCs. Among them are sassal.ethacc, gabrielShapir0, 0xMaki, mikedemarais.eth, Austin Griffith and Notsofast.