Gnosis joins Erigon (formerly Turbo-Geth) to release next-gen Ethereum client

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Erigon, an Ethereum client that has provided critical infrastructure since 2018 under its former name Turbo-Geth, is launching a new version that integrates tracing functionality while increasing modularity, synchronization speed, and resource efficiency. These improvements, which primarily impact Ethereum node operators, are being developed together with the decentralized market-mechanism project Gnosis.

As stewards of OpenEthereum, which was initiated by Parity in 2015 and remains the second-largest Ethereum implementation by node count, Gnosis has been seeking a solution to architectural and protocol maintenance issues that increasingly impact the aging codebase.

This solution is provided by Gnosis’s partnership with Erigon, which ensures that developers and node operators reliant on OpenEthereum 3.x can migrate to a faster and more efficient client. The migration to Erigon will be both beneficial and necessary, since the OpenEthereum 3.x codebase will no longer be maintained or supported after Ethereum’s London Upgrade in July 2021.

“The Erigon team is looking forward to supporting OpenEthereum users through the transition from the monolithic inherited codebase to an increasingly innovative and inclusive development based on common architecture. We have been working to fill functionality gaps while ensuring the improvements will fit into the overarching architecture for building Ethereum implementations – and look forward to bringing this new architecture to reality with Gnosis.”
– Erigon Founder, Alexey Akhonov

Erigon’s next-gen architecture includes:

• All the features OpenEthereum 3.x currently provides on Ethereum mainnet, including tracing.
• A modular client design, enabling parallelized development of the client.
• New (“flat”) model of storing Ethereum state, allowing a lower disk footprint.
• Preprocessing of data outside of the storage engine, so the database writes operations faster by a magnitude
• Staged synchronization technique, allowing very fast synchronization.

Erigon’s features benefit Ethereum node operators as follows:

<ul>Much lower disk footprint
*– 1.2TB for archive node, 430GB for pruned nodeFaster sync speed
– Greater than10 blk/s at tip, compared to