Alexey Akhunov

R&D Ecosystem Vision Video

Superchains and Unified Portal Network

Video Transcript: Today I will explain in more detail what optimistic rollups are, what is the idea of rollup superchains, and then I will propose an alternative to the current direction of development of superchains. To prepare this program I have used my conversations with…

Alexey AkhunovApril 8, 2025

R&D Ecosystem Vision Video

What will Ethereum do? State Rent, Stateless, Regenesis, and Portal Network

It started in 2018 at Devcon4 in Prague. The group of Ethereum core developers gathered and discussed a troubling topic - the problem of ever growing state. A symptomatic manifestation of this problem was the effort required by go-ethereum nodes to perform initial downloading of…

Alexey AkhunovMarch 31, 2025

R&D Ecosystem Vision Video

Solana, Celestia, Ethereum’s grand strategy, rollups

In this Video we discuss: high level components the blockchains contain comparison of Celestia with Ethereum whether Solana is suitable for rollups speculation about Ethereum's grand strategy profitability of some Ethereum rollups challenges for optimistic rollups due to Ethereum's original design choices possible paths to…

Alexey AkhunovMarch 27, 2025

R&D Ecosystem Video

What did Solana do? Technical comparison of main tech features Solana vs Ethereum

Summary : Solana vs. Ethereum: A Technical Comparison This discussion provides a technical comparison between Solana and Ethereum, focusing on key architectural differences and their implications. The speaker shares insights gleaned from research, including documentation, ChatGPT interactions, and code analysis using Cloud sonnet. Gulf…

Alexey AkhunovMarch 26, 2025

Vision Video opinion

Essential decision for Ethereum (Alexey Akunov – Video)

Here is a summary of Alexey Akhunov’s speech about Ethereum and key concerns regarding its development: Dangers and Principles for Ethereum Alexey Akhunov expresses concerns about certain decisions in Ethereum’s development that could hinder its evolution and competitiveness. He highlights the importance of several fundamental…

Alexey AkhunovMarch 7, 2025

R&D Erigon Org

Merging Erigon 3 and Erigon 4, and possibly Caplin

We had mentioned before that there are currently three big features in Erigon’s technological roadmap: Erigon 3, Erigon 4, and Caplin. As we tried to formalise the roadmap further, we have split each of these three features into R&D phases: Prototype (proof of concept) -…

Alexey AkhunovMay 30, 2023

Ecosystem Org BNB Chain Economics

Erigon receives $200,000 grant from BNB Chain to advance technological roadmap

Erigon is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded a grant from BNB Chain worth $200,000 to support its mission of advancing its technological roadmap. This grant will help Erigon move even closer to what it calls the "efficiency frontier" for Ethereum-derived blockchain implementations,…

Alexey AkhunovApril 27, 2023

Ecosystem Org BNB Chain Polygon

Update on the support for BSC and Polygon in Erigon. Recruitment ideas.

In one of the previous posts, we announced that we may be discontinuing support for BNB Smart Chain and/or Bor/Polygon in Erigon, due to our resource constrains and other factors. The decision deadline specified in that post was 1st of April 2023. Now we are…

Alexey AkhunovApril 26, 2023

Erigon Ecosystem BNB Chain Polygon

Future of the support of BNB Smart Chain and Bor (Polygon) in Erigon

Around a year ago, in January and February 2022, Erigon has accepted the inclusion of the support of BNB Smart Chain and Bor (from Polygon) into the codebase. There was a large interest in this from the outside. From our point of view, our interest…

Alexey AkhunovFebruary 7, 2023

Ecosystem Org Akula

Winding down support for Akula project

Akula project (https://github.com/akula-bft/akula) was started last year when we realised there is large amount of interest in a high-performance Ethereum implementation in Rust after the sun-setting of OpenEthereum. We also had “know-how” from our multi-year work on Erigon. The start was very challenging, because most…

Alexey AkhunovNovember 23, 2022

Alexey Akhunov

Superchains and Unified Portal Network

What will Ethereum do? State Rent, Stateless, Regenesis, and Portal Network

Solana, Celestia, Ethereum’s grand strategy, rollups

What did Solana do? Technical comparison of main tech features Solana vs Ethereum

Essential decision for Ethereum (Alexey Akunov – Video)

Merging Erigon 3 and Erigon 4, and possibly Caplin

Erigon receives $200,000 grant from BNB Chain to advance technological roadmap

Update on the support for BSC and Polygon in Erigon. Recruitment ideas.

Future of the support of BNB Smart Chain and Bor (Polygon) in Erigon

Winding down support for Akula project

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