Besu 2022 Vision

Hyperledger Besu is Hyperledger's Principal Ethereum project. It is focused around 3 key pillars: a fully functional client for public networks, a customizable client for private networks, and libraries to support the use of Ethereum technologies in Besu and other projects.

• Fully Functional Client for Public Networks
  Besu explicitly and "out of the box" supports the following networks, including planned future upgrades
  
  • Ethereum Mainnet
    • Pre-Merge Ethash Proof-of-Work Client
    • Post-Merge Execution Client, pairablre with any fully-functional Consensus Client such as Lighthouse, Loadstar, Nimbus, Prysm, or Teku
  • Ethereum Mainnet Testnets
  • Ethereum Classic
  • Ethereum Classic Testnets
• Customizable Client for Private Networks
  • Multiple Consensus Engines such as Clique, IBFT2, or QBFT.
  • Optional private transaction technology
  • Optional Integration with Privae Enclaves such as Tessera
  • Optional  Node Access
• Libraries to support the use of Ethereum technologies
  • EVM Engine Library

To support these 3 pillars are the following 6 systems.

• EVM Engine
• Consensus Protocols
• Peer-to-peer communications
• JSON-RPC Communications
• Data Storage
• Block Production