: ̗̀➛The Story Behind Nimbus ⪼ How A Small Team Built Ethereum's Most Efficient Client ⪼ Back in 2018, Status Network saw a problem nobody wanted to solve that ➥ What if Ethereum could run on your phone? ⪼ A team of builders led by Jacek Sieka (@jcksie ) and Dustin Brody decided to find out ✦ What They Built like rock solid ⪼ Nimbus is a lightweight Ethereum client written in Nim (efficient systems language) ⪼ It handles consensus + execution in one package, designed to work on everything from Raspberry Pi to enterprise servers ✦ The Real Numbers you can trust •⪼ 6-8% of Ethereum validators now run Nimbus •⪼ Uses 50-70% less RAM than competitors •⪼ Can sync full nodes on devices with 2GB RAM •⪼ Currently trusted by DSRV (~2000 validators), solo stakers worldwide ✦ The Problem They Solved from root ⪼ Most Ethereum clients (Geth, Erigon, Nethermind) are memory hogs ➥ This kept regular people from running nodes ⪼ Nimbus flipped the script ➥ Suddenly staking became accessible to anyone with old hardware lying around ✦ Why It Matters (The Hidden Piece Nobody Talks About) ⪼ Nimbus is building the Portal Network A decentralized storage layer that lets nodes prune old data and fetch it on-demand ⪼ This could be the key to solving Ethereum's data bloat problem long term ⪼ When EIP 4444 activates (May 2025), Nimbus is already ready ✦ The OG Team ⪼ Core members include ➺ Jacek Sieka (Head of Research), ➺ Dustin Brody (Program Lead), ➺ Eugene Kabanov, ➺ Andri Lim, ➺ Kim De Mey all deep in Nim language development ⪼ Funded by Ethereum Foundation grants ($1.65M total) + @ethstatus backing ✦ The Competition but no competition ⪼ Geth ➺ Most popular but memory intensive ⪼ Erigon ➺ Fast but needs more attention ⪼ Nethermind ➺ Solid but resource heavy ⪼ Nimbus ➺ Smallest footprint, surprisingly resilient, built for the underdog staker ✦ Why This Matters For You ⪼ If you want true decentralization, you need more validators ⪼ If people can't run validators without spending thousands on hardware, you get centralization Nimbus fixes that equation ⪼ Not a token play. Not chasing hype ⪼ Just a team building infrastructure that makes Ethereum more accessible ⪼ That's the kind of work that wins long term ⪼ @ethnimbus is shipping Portal client updates as we speak. Keep an eye on this one. Cc : @0xcyp ,