Guides
Running the infrastructure, not just calling it
11 articles on getting, choosing, running, scaling and watching a node — general where the problem is general, and per chain where it is not. Written for the decisions that come before picking a provider from the rankings, and the ones that come after deciding not to.
Ethereum
BSC
Solana2 articles in clients for EthereumWhich node software exists on each chain, and what changes with each.
- Clients· All three chains
Why the client mix matters
“Does it matter which client everybody else is running?”
What a supermajority client bug costs at 33% and at 66%, why the published diversity figures disagree with each other by more than they agree, and what any of it changes for an application rather than a validator.
- ClientsEthereum
Ethereum clients
“Which Ethereum client should I run, and why are there two of them?”
The five execution clients and six consensus clients, why an Ethereum node is two processes joined by a shared secret, and which clients the Ethereum endpoints measured here report running.