Web3 investment firm Paradigm has released a Rust implementation of Ethereum, according to a Dec. 7 announcement from the company’s chief technology office, Georgios Konstantopoulos. The new software, called “Reth,” allows Ethereum validators to launch their nodes using Rust instead of Go, Java, or other languages.

A previous Rust implementation had been released by Erigon in June, but the Erigon team stopped supporting it in November when they learned that Reth was under development, according to a post by the Erigon team.

In the announcement, Konstantopoulos stated that the software has been released in order to “[contribute] to Ethereum’s stability by improving client diversity,” as well as to provide node software that will perform well.

(by Tom Blackstone)