- It is intended to significantly reduce chain generation time
- Reth will bring diversity to the Ethereum customer environment
- But the solution is still in preliminary testing phase
On Tuesday, June 20, venture capital firm Paradigm announced the launch of Reth v0.1.0. This is a new implementation of the Ethereum node, written based on Rust. The client aims to diversify the ecosystem and make it more accessible to dApps developers.
“We are pleased to announce the release of Reth v0.1.0-alpha. It’s a modular, highly usable and lightning fast Ethereum node on Rust, available under an Apache/MIT license,” the announcement says.
The solution took about 9 months to develop.. Read the code and technical details about the client on GitHub.
Reth is an implementation of an archive node with a ready-made set of tools for building an EVM-centric infrastructure.. In addition to this client, there are several others in the ecosystem, Geth, Nethermind and Erigon. But Reth has significant advantages over them.
Paradigm claim that the new implementation is capable of generating a chain from genesis to the last block in 50 hours with a base size of 1.92 TB. Other customers will need more than a month and more than 14TB of space to do so.
The key customer weakness is poor positioning. Geth dominates the market, while Reth is only available in alpha version. Partadigm said it does not aim to “take over” the ecosystem or compete against it.
Reth is intended to bring diversity to the Ethereum customer space. The company believes it will increase decentralization and stability of the network. If you want to know more about nodes, we recommend reading this guide. As always, the link gives you all the information you need in simple language.