Reth Alphanet release

Paradigm has open sourced Reth AlphaNet, an OP Stack-compatible testnet rollup built on the Reth SDK to test Reth performance and experimental Ethereum research, under an Apache/MIT license. The testnet holds no assets of real value, may be reset periodically, and initially includes EIP-3074, EIP-7212 and EIP-2537. The article says it aims to break the 1 gigagas per second barrier, citing benchmarks of 100-200 megagas per second for live sync on alpha.13 and 1-3 gigagas per second for historical sync. The short-term roadmap includes a hosted version on Conduit targeting 50 megagas per second, and the project will launch soon after Reth 1.0, before the end of Q2.