yenicelik / akula

Fast Ethereum full-node implementation

🦈 Akula 🦈

Next-generation implementation of Ethereum protocol ("client") written in Rust, based on Erigon architecture.

Why run Akula?

Look at Mgas/s.

Building the source

Requirements:

• clang 12+
• libext2fs-dev / e2fsprogs-devel

Install rustup from rustup.rs.

git clone https://github.com/akula-bft/akula

cd akula

cargo build --all --profile=production

You can find built binaries in target/production folder.

Running

• akula is the main binary that runs as full node:

akula --datadir=<path to Akula database directory>

• akula-rpc is the RPC daemon, which can provide JSONRPC and gRPC endpoints based on Akula's database.

• akula-sentry is the P2P node.

• akula-toolbox provides various helper commands to check and manipulate Akula's database. Please consult its help for more info:

akula-toolbox --help

Helping us and getting support

Please join our Telegram chat to meet the developers and find out how you can help.

Work on Akula is sponsored by:

If you'd like to sponsor, check out our Gitcoin grant page.

---

Akula (Акула) is pronounced as ah-koo-lah and stands for shark in Russian.

License

The entire code within this repository is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3