web3.js [Rewrite 4.x] Consensus ( Beacon chain )

( This is Epic for 4.x Management )

Beacon Chain

Beacon chain API wrappers.

Features / Discussions / Related issues

[ ] create package structure #4466
[ ] create eth2 types #4467
[ ] create eth2 api functions #4468

Providers

Documentation

[ ] README ( overview, example, .. )
[ ] Documentation

Related Issues / Feature Requests / Discussion

https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/4264 https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/4268

Related EIPs

External Libs

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Sep 13 '21 12:09 jdevcs

I'd be willing to take this up. Curious if anyone is working on it or has any input.

Dec 02 '21 00:12 jgresham

I'd be willing to take this up. Curious if anyone is working on it or has any input.

Thanks @jgresham your contributions are welcome . We will keep you in loop for discussions of this Epic, before jumping into implementation of web3.consensus (Beacon Chain) package , we need to look following items:

web3 consensus provider support ( currently for (ETH 1) execution layer interaction, we have EIP1193 compatible provider method, and for interaction with consensus layer we need provider supporting restful calls )
allowing injected provider for consensus layer
we need to revisit or implement following new & decoupled from eth1 : web3 config ( if we need to maintain any state, for beacon chain ), web3 context for web3.consensus requestManager
Feature that we might allow user: ( allowing execution layer + consensus layer injected providers simultaneously via main web3 constructor , or providers URLs simultaneously via main web3 constructor )

Dec 02 '21 18:12 jdevcs

@jdevcs thank you for the detailed info and please keep me in the loop. I will hopefully be familiarizing myself in these areas over the next few weeks. If there is anyway I can get started on something minimal and working, I'd be glad to start on it, but I'm not sure where to start from here yet.

Dec 03 '21 19:12 jgresham