UX updates for Lodestar

Lodestar had been running libp2p at v0.36.x in its previous release. Like any dependencies you use for your project, keeping them updated is key to having access to new features, fixing issues, and, most importantly, security. This upgrade is significant because, after v0.37.0, js-libp2p was rewritten in TypeScript and ES modules only.

One of the largest benefits of this was a better developer experience, but we had to get it integrated properly without significant regressions in performance. The upgrade changed a lot of underlying libraries, but in the end, it’s worth it as we are able to ship Lodestar v1.2.0 with a huge libp2p upgrade.

It’s unrealistic to think that everyone will run a full node for their own use or to trust a single provider to always provide the correct information from a blockchain. To realize a truly decentralized infrastructure for Ethereum usage, we need to also distribute light client data with a decentralized p2p model.

Lodestar also changed its agent version to display lodestar/version instead of using the default agent version of js-libp2p/0.39.x. If you’re running a crawler or collecting data about nodes on the network, make sure you incorporate this so you can properly detect Lodestar nodes for troubleshooting or metrics collection.

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