A series of recent incidents has renewed focus on what some experts call Ethereum’s “client diversity problem.”
While the network itself stayed resilient through back-to-back outages caused by bugs in minority clients like Nethermind and Besu, there are growing concerns that overreliance on dominant client Geth poses a lurking threat.
TLDR
- Coinbase relies entirely on the Geth client to run its Ethereum infrastructure, prompting concerns over centralization and potential network instability if issues emerge.
- 84% of Ethereum validators currently use the Geth client, leading to calls for greater client diversity to limit fallout from potential bugs.
- A critical bug emerged in the Nethermind client used by 8% of validators, sparking worries about what would happen if a similar issue hit dominant Geth client.
- Many major exchanges and staking services like Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken use Geth to power their validator…
