Reth’s path to 1 gigagas per second, and beyond

Reth, an Ethereum execution client built in 2022, sets a short-term goal of 1 gigagas per second in L2 during 2024 and proposes gas per second as a standard performance metric for EVM chains. The article states that Reth currently achieves 100-200 mgas/s during live sync, so reaching the goal requires a roughly 10x improvement. Planned vertical scaling work includes a JIT/AOT compiler for Revm that the article estimates could give about a 2x EVM execution improvement, and parallel EVM execution that could yield up to 5x. Horizontal scaling plans include Multi-Rollup Reth and Cloud-native Reth, and the article invites collaboration, directing interested parties to georgios@paradigm.xyz.