Notes The Nimbus Ethereum client 0.4.0 beta, along with the Nimbus verified proxy, are medium-urgency releases which improve performance, stability, and observability, as well as expanding verified proxy Web3 API coverage. This release marks the transition for the unified and execution clients from alpha to beta, reflecting increased suitability for testing and deployment. Improvements Propagate…
Notes The Nimbus Ethereum client v0.3.1 alpha, along with the Nimbus Verified Proxy, are medium-urgency releases which add WASM, JS, and Go bindings to the Verified Proxy and enable EIP-4444 block pruning on the execution and unified client. Improvements Enable EIP-4444 block history pruning: #3953 Implement WASM/JS bindings for verified proxy: #4010 Add verified proxy P2P backend: #4208 Support…
Notes The Nimbus Ethereum client v0.3.0 alpha, along with the Nimbus verified proxy, are medium-urgency releases which introduce a single combined binary for both the consensus and execution layers, along with a unified client interface to both consensus and execution layers; more detail on this at https://blog.nimbus.team/the-nimbus-unified-client/ Improvements Provide the Nimbus client as a…
Notes The Nimbus execution client v0.2.2 alpha is a high-urgency release for the impending Fusaka fork and low-urgency for the Hoodi and Sepolia testnets. Improvements Improve performance of certain addition, multiplication, and pairing precompiles by 80+%: #3747 Dynamically adjust block persistence batch sizes to safely maximize throughput: #3750 Optimize Portal database pruning performance by…
Notes The Nimbus Execution Client v0.2.1 alpha is a high-urgency release for the Hoodi, Sepolia, and Holesky testnets, due to their impending Fusaka forks. There are no Verified Proxy changes since v0.2.0 . Improvements Improve block processing speed by 6x: #3717 Support stateless block execution: #3683 Improve precompile error-related logging: #3718 Fixes Prevent potential database corruption:…
Notes v0.2.0 is an alpha release of the Nimbus Execution Client , which supports Ethereum mainnet, Hoodi, Sepolia, and Holesky. The Nimbus Verified Proxy supports both ETH and ERC-20 tokens. SHA512 checksums Nimbus Execution Client # Linux AMD64 ed64d5d8bd41040a01d9d929242979f669954a11f421de8122b33dd19083109cfb54460f3487003ee748388c8bb4ec7fbb95a4d1d8d215e1c301a74232381c99…