Achieved an average block processing latency of 39.8 ms on Ethereum mainnet over a 6-hour period measured on February 17, 2026, ranking second among execution clients.

Collaborating with Titan Builder on multiple initiatives under leadership coordination.

Will have a default based rollup mode as a planned feature.

The GitHub repository approaches 800 stars with a team goal to reach 1,000 stars before year-end for improved project discoverability.

Team announces imminent launch of RISC V zkVM and plans to expand into MEV pipeline and DeFi sectors.

Security audits are underway while multiple stakers want to use ethrex for L1 and multiple clients prepare to deploy it in L2 mode. Performance improvements are about to be merged through several pull requests.

Team publicly criticizes competitor Reth, warning Ethereum community about venture capital conflicts of interest and technical concerns including AI-generated code components in Reth's codebase, positioning ethrex as the neutral alternative built on different engineering principles.

Ethrex client benchmarks show it performs slightly faster than reth in independent tests, though the performance difference is modest.

Integration demo with Aligned completed at EF Devcon, marking new partnership milestone with Aligned Milestones achieved.

Ethrex_client successfully upgrades to and runs Fusaka following the Ethereum network upgrade.

L1 client achieves speed parity with Reth using smaller codebase; L2 performance is 24% slower with optimization work underway.

Ethrex_client is now described as production ready, marking a maturity milestone for the Rust execution client. The team positions this as the first step in broader efforts to support Ethereum ecosystem development. (Tweet ID: 1995500623945466062)

New consensus client ethlambda launches alongside announcements of Gnosis and Polygon integrations in upcoming weeks. Their code handles 33% of all staked ETH in Commit Boost, expected to reach 40%, and Rogue zkL2 launch moves forward with Fusaka now live.

Integration of Airbender from zkSync starts in ethrex_client after technical collaboration discussions with zkSync's CTO at eth_proofs event.

Expands development to include Bitcoin alongside Ethereum, coordinating with large stakers and MEV pipeline for adoption, with partnerships and integrations with multiple stakers and Ethereum teams.

Performance benchmarks show 399MGas/s at p50 compared to reth's 373MGas/s, with additional performance improvements in development via incoming PRs.

Team member lean_knack presents "Expanding Ethereum's Proving Landscape with ethrex_client" at EthProofs Day during EFDevcon.

Reaches production-ready status with audits underway. Integrates zkVMs including SuccinctLabs and RiscZero, with ongoing integrations with Brevis and OpenVM. Builds new RISC-V zkVM in collaboration with Aligned Layer and 3mi Labs for L1 proving and eth_proofs.

Integrated ziskvm, achieved 20x performance improvement.

Team member Mati Onorato presents ethrex at a meetup with Lemonapp and Uniswap.

Development progresses to full L2 stack implementation with 16 NVIDIA 5090 GPUs approaching real-time proving performance.

Team engages with Brazilian Central Bank official Henrique Videira at Gov3 Summit to discuss regulation and building financial infrastructure for institutions and governments in Latin America on Ethereum.

Commit Boost, built by the same team as ethrex, currently runs 33% of all staked ETH and expects to reach 40% when Kiln_finance comes back online, handling billions of dollars in validator infrastructure.

Team plans to remove KZG wrapper from the client, with 99% certainty on proceeding pending cost impact assessment.

Head of Engineering presents Ethrex at Ethereum Client Summit.

Zisk VM integration with ethrex is under internal review and expected to merge within days, with performance testing showing approximately 4 minutes per block using an RTX 4090.

Sur Money launches as a new stablecoin company with ARSs for Argentine peso as first product, partnering with Lemon which has 5M+ users and 1.8M+ cards issued, with class_lambda building all core infrastructure connecting to the Ethereum ecosystem. Mainnet performance improves to 239 MGas/s compared to reth's 245 MGas/s and Nethermind's 296 MGas/s with stable operation.

BoulderLam launches with a product suite including RWA tokenization, WaaS, digital identity, and cross-border payments that will run on ethrex infrastructure, targeting millions of users in Latin America.

Updated mainnet benchmarks show execution at 228 MGas/s compared to reth's 249 MGas/s and Nethermind's 330 MGas/s on identical server infrastructure.

Multiple companies launch to use ethrex infrastructure, with mainnet performance benchmarked at 210MGas/s compared to reth's 226MGas/s, and EFDevcon attendance confirmed.

Delivers ~60% execution throughput boost and ARM Linux build fixes in 7.0 release, but includes breaking changes requiring full resync.

Ethrex's levm implementation is listed as a guest program in the zkEVM real-time proving initiative alongside execution clients from Reth, Zilkworm, and ZKSync OS, with GPU proving achieving $0.01 per block costs.

First sync on ARM hardware (Orange Pi 5 Plus) completes in 9 hours and 16 minutes using official Ethereum on ARM image.

loom_finance partners with ethrex to use their L2 stack and RaaS platform for launching L2s.

Version 6.0.0 (Mach 3) releases with up to 3x faster execution and full L2 Fusaka blob support, now available for installation via apt package manager.

Mainnet Ethereum performance benchmarks show ethrex at 141MGas/s versus Nethermind at 288MGas/s and Reth at 235MGas/s, with additional performance PRs planned for merge in coming days.

Full demo displays L2 with proof aggregation using Succinct Labs' SP1 zkVM, showing deployment through verification workflow on Hoodi testnet. The demonstration presents a complete end-to-end process from deploying L2 contracts and running the sequencer to proving batches and verifying them via Aligned Proof Aggregation Service.

Sovraio uses ethrex client with ZK and Aligned Layer to onboard millions of users in Latin America.

ethrex_client collaborates with fabric_ethereum and Commit_Boost to develop preconfirmations primitives for based and native rollup designs.

Aligned integrates ethrex client to power their RaaS platform for ZK-rollup deployment with full Ethereum security.

Ethrex processes 208 million gas on Ethereum's Hoodi testnet, compared to Reth's 431 million gas and Nethermind's 238 million gas.

Lambda implements working testnet of Loom Finance using ethrex client, with plans to showcase at EFDevcon.

Lambda works to add redundancy and failover code to the L2 centralized sequencer.

Ethrex becomes available through apt package manager for installation on Debian/Ubuntu systems. ARM architecture support launches in alpha testing phase. (Tweet ID: 1980242565778620774)

Client releases new version with path-based storage and begins adding snapshots after 5 weeks of stable Ethereum mainnet operation.

Client now passes 40 RPC compatibility Hive tests, an increase of 2 tests over the past two weeks.

Development incorporates Rise chain architectural concepts into L2 mode and distributed ZK proving in collaboration with @gattacahq.

v3.0.0 release adds jemalloc memory allocator for performance gains, with faster snap sync, reduced memory usage, and RocksDB as default database.

L1 client codebase stands at 58K-60K lines of code with 500 indirect dependencies, comparable to fastest L1 clients.

P2P layer refactoring announced to follow this week's path-based storage migration, with team targeting significant performance and code quality improvements in upcoming weeks.

A new L2 targeting launch at EFDevcon for a web2 application with 500k users is in development. Protocols @sovraio and @loom_finance are confirmed to be running on the ethrex_client + alignedlayer stack as part of rapid Asian market expansion.

Latest release reduces memory usage to 16GB RAM and implements RocksDB as default with snap sync working across all networks; path-based storage update scheduled for next week to address disk usage issues.

The client is now running on Ethereum mainnet and development has reached its final stages for both L1 and L2 components. A launch party is scheduled during EFDevcon.

The project confirms a no-token, no-investor structure while revealing technical specifications of 50k lines of code for L1 and 15k for L2 components. The team describes itself as a decade-old bootstrapped company building vertically integrated software that's an order of magnitude smaller than alternatives.

New interoperability protocol under development to connect ZK-rollups across Ethereum and multiple chains.

L2 execution success rate improves from 10% to 60% on mainnet blocks, while expanding ZKVM support to include ziskVM and 0xLita integrations alongside existing RiscZero and Succinct Labs compatibility.

Aligned Layer announces exclusive partnership to build on rollup stack.

Whitepaper release scheduled for next week, introducing zkTLS technology and new partnerships with Aligned Layer, Class Lambda, and PolFinance for tokenomics and game theory design.

Client successfully syncs with Hoodi testnet for 6 hours; mainnet testing imminent.

New execution client achieves near-top performance in opcode execution while supporting RISC-V provers and based sequencing for L2 functionality.

Execution client ready for production deployment, team to begin onboarding users in coming weeks.

New block header sync implementation achieves 5-8 minute mainnet sync, outperforming Geth's 20-minute benchmark by 2.5-4x.

Gas processing capability doubles to 1 gigagas/second, marking significant performance milestone.

New execution and consensus clients under development alongside BEAM consensus layer work.

Working MVP for based rollups is complete with Fusaka preconfirmation integration, multiple based rollups launching soon.

New ZK rollup development announced for revenue-based financing, partnering with Aligned Layer, Class Lambda, and PolFinance. Testnet launch expected in coming months.

Gas processing capability increases to 400 mega gas/sec, marking 59% improvement from previous benchmark.

Identity infrastructure now live across multiple Latin American countries through Sovraio partnership, targeting millions of daily users with planned DeFi product integrations.

Achieves third place in Ethereum client benchmarks with 252 mega gas/sec capability, up from 50x slower few weeks ago.

L2 client now supports ZK + TEE capabilities while development of consensus client is planned; receives endorsement from Ethereum core developer Peter Szilagyi.

Expands to function as full L1 Ethereum execution client with Lambda EVM integration.

Performance analysis reveals CALL, JUMP, and PUSH as primary bottlenecks, with new LEVM lookup table implementation achieving 10% opcode benchmark improvement.

Production servers achieve 10x performance improvement for storage heavy blocks, reaching 0.25ggas/s from 0.02ggas/s.

Benchmark tests achieve beyond one gigagas performance, marking major throughput milestone.

New lmdbx fork integration delivers 30% speed improvement in block processing, while L2 system contract implementation advances ERC20 bridging capabilities.

Achieves 500 megagas performance with active development toward 1 gigagas throughput, while supporting both ZK and centralized L2 capabilities.

Internal testnet achieves 370 transactions per block with 15M gas throughput on Sepolia, while native ERC20 bridge design completed and entering implementation phase.

Automated P2P node discovery system launched with reduced sequencer rotation time from 5 to 2 batches.

New P2P implementation enables direct block gossiping between sequencers, reducing L1 dependency for synchronization while improving network efficiency through follower node updates.

New integration with Aligned demonstrates working L2 verification system using AVS and aggregated proofs on Ethereum

Permissionless sequencer registration system implemented for L2 decentralization, while new automated performance testing framework established using Hoodi testnet blocks for benchmarking.

Multiple sequencer support implemented with round-robin system, enabling decentralized batch processing and leader rotation every 5 batches.

Technical milestone achieved with giga gas performance and completion of first sequencing proof-of-concept; new rollup "Rogue" announced with proof of useful work mining mechanism.

Execution client successfully syncs Holesky testnet using lambda EVM implementation, marking a key technical milestone in client development.

New trie implementation achieves 2x in-memory speedup and 10% import performance gain, while adding mempool content endpoint and TDX reproducible builds.

Major financial institution explores partnership for developing world payment systems; follow-up meeting scheduled for June 2024.

Major technical milestones achieved with 98% Cancun test completion and full L2 deposit/withdrawal proving functionality.

Performance optimizations achieve 5% improvement with potential 80% speedup incoming, while L2 infrastructure receives major upgrades including contract upgradeability.

Major protocol upgrade reduces L1 transaction costs through improved batch processing and adds Intel TDX support for faster transaction finality.

Major technical upgrade implements LEVM as default engine with performance optimizations, while advancing L2 development with new runtime integration.

Pre-launch phase concluding with multiple client deployments and documentation release within weeks.

Technical development shifts focus to LEVM improvement and L2 infrastructure stabilization, with implementation of performance optimizations and new testing frameworks.

Major technical upgrades underway including batched L1 commits and LEVM performance optimization.

Critical infrastructure now operational with completed CI/prover integration; multiple performance optimizations implemented including 2x faster merkleization.

L2 platform implementing passkeys, with validium development in progress

Recent updates include block process batching for syncing, execution cache implementation, and RLP encoded blocks import improvement.

Recent updates include resolving unlinked reorg issues, implementing getPayloadV4, refactoring LEVM and rEVM. Transitioning to LEVM as default configuration after resolving Hive test regressions.

L2 stack will integrate Celestia, Avail Project and EigenDA.

L2 codebase compatible with SuccinctLabs SP1, Brevis Pico, and RISC Zero, with upcoming integration of a16z Jolt. Codebase has 50k lines of code.

Updates on Pectra testing, client improvements, L2 developments including Pico as prover backend, and LEVM transition. Released on March 1, 2025.