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Coming at you with another 🧵 for Day 3 of @EFDevconnect. Today, I attended the #LightClientsSummit and learned about the Portal Network. Before going into Portal and why it matters for Ethereum, here’s some context about light clients in general.
Light clients are nodes that can quickly sync to the Ethereum network to look up data or send a tx. They don’t require heavy computing power to run and are designed to operate directly from web browsers, mobile devices, and/or tablets. 
In contrast, regular full nodes on Ethereum are costly to run and can take days to sync, which is why many users today rely on projects like @infura_io to interact with the network.
