Clients

Chainstack supports deploying Ethereum nodes in the following client implementations:

Consensus layer

• Nimbus — the Nim implementation (opens new window) of the Ethereum Beacon Chain client.

Execution layer

• Geth — the Go Ethereum (opens new window) implementation.
• Erigon — the Erigon (opens new window) implementation.

To be a part of the Ethereum mainnet, you can deploy either a Geth node or an Erigon node.

The key differences are in size and the RPC methods available:

• Geth — bigger in size; Geth JSON-RPC methods (opens new window).
• Erigon — smaller in size; Erigon RPC methods (opens new window).

See also

• Ethereum API reference
• Networks
• Tools
• Tutorials