akula VS nimbus-eth2

Back in November, Artem Vorotnikov (Akula developer) made this tweet:

On a related note, I'm also keeping tabs on Akula, because a Rust-based client is a damn sexy proposition for running a performance-sensitive node 24/7.

It certainly seems it will be remembered as a major success story for open p2p protocols on the global Internet of our time.

A great multitude of developers and enthusiasts belonging or contributing to diverse teams spread across the world: developing, debating, and collaborating for years to arrive at the big event.

And it's all been done very much in the public view:

https://weekinethereumnews.com/

https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/eth2_news

https://github.com/ethereum/pm

https://www.youtube.com/c/EthereumFoundation/videos

Consensus Clients:

https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse#readme

https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar#readme

https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2#readme

https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm#readme

https://github.com/ConsenSys/teku#readme

Execution Clients:

https://github.com/akula-bft/akula#readme

https://github.com/hyperledger/besu#readme

https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon#readme

https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum#readme

https://github.com/NethermindEth/nethermind#readme

https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1#readme

Akula. Ethereum client written in Rust, based on Erigon client architecture.

Agreed! There's a couple of fairly large projects in Nim: https://nimbus.team/ (https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2) or https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Though there's still friction points I've been happy seeing the ecosystem grow lately. The compiler has seen a lot of bug fixes lately too which helps.

Pretty big update for Nimbus out today, it's been a long time coming: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v23.6.0

consensus client/execution client -> ERIGON v2.45.2 and NIMBUS v23.5.1

In the same year their beacon chain client followed Bellatrix (Merge) and Capella upgrades without a hitch, which is in many ways more impressive than a messenger.

Nimbus claims to have a solution to the loss of finality problem that was caused by old attestations, by dramatically speeding up the verification of those attestations: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/4911

Seems they just released 23.5.0, to fix many of the issues we've been having: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v23.5.0

https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2 69 contributors

Daily Goerli: Was getting a lot of missed attestations with nimbus and after some back and forth with tersec, we confirmed that timeouts communicating with web3signer were the culprit. A fix should be merged soon.