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Besu 2022 Vision

Besu 2022 Vision

Sept 14, 2022

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