Ethereum Client Erigon Ends Support for Rust Version of Akula

The official blog of Erigon, the Ethereum client, stated that it will end support for Erigon's Rust version of Akula. The team recently discovered that a Rust-based Ethereum implementation would be open-sourced with almost the same scope as Akula, with some of the same/similar building blocks. The Erigon team believes that the project will be more supported and popular after being open-sourced, and its functions will soon match and surpass Akula. Erigon could not guarantee that Akula would attract future funding compared to the resources and influence it had behind the project, and therefore decided to withdraw technical, management, and financial support for Akula.