Around a year ago, in January and February 2022, Erigon has accepted the inclusion of the support of BNB Smart Chain and Bor (from Polygon) into the…

November 2022

Akula project (https://github.com/akula-bft/akula) was started last year when we realised there is large amount of interest in a high-performance…

October 2022

Shortly before or after publication of this article, we are also publishing a new release, 2022.10.01, which contains a lot of fixes and improvements…

September 2022

It has been a while since the last update, but summer always messes up the schedule. But now the weather got cooler, the routine set in. Ready? Let’s…

May 2022

In one of the previous posts, a short history of Silkworm project was introduced: LINK. Silkworm is an implementation of Ethereum, written in C++ from…
Quick follow up from the previous post: the theoretical figure of 1015 Gb of the database (this does not include block snapshot of 225 Gb) after full…

April 2022

After looking at the charts in the previous post, it occurred to us that the “CallTraceSet” table is unusually large. This table holds intermediate…
Today we are publishing another alpha release, 2022.04.04-alpha, LINK. Multiple things were fixed and improved. Most important problem with alpha…
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This is the first release of Erigon that contains the code required for transition to POS (Proof Of Stake) via cooperation with one of the CL (Consensus…
Erigon is different from many other implementations of Ethereum (or other blockchain protocols) is that it is less monolithic and more modular. But the…
In the beginning of 2020, a decision was made to introduce so-called Staged Sync to Erigon (back then, it was called “Turbo-Geth”). The idea is simple…
Two flavours of Erigon - going back to Alpha Presently, Erigon is available for the users in two main “flavours”: Beta releases - these have been…
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