The Road Ahead for Ethereum Light Clients [Track 1]

This event took place on Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC.

When interacting with Ethereum today, you're stuck making some hard decisions on whether you want to run your own trusted Ethereum node, or trusting a centralized provider to work on your behalf. Luckily, you can still run your own trusted node with a simple desktop computer or on something as small as a Raspberry Pi 4, but realistically it is not something every Ethereum user will do, especially those that seek to interact with Ethereum on lower-end devices such as mobile phones. So how do provide that trust at scale? How do you verify the data you're getting is true without verifying everything yourself? Light clients are only at its infancy and these problems are actively being solved so we can stop relying on centralized providers for data which may or may not be correct. We must consider the needs of all devices if we wish to be inclusive and have Ethereum be useful to our everyday needs, not just for DeFi trading and NFT collecting.