Timeline

How the rig got built.

The project's pull requests across the three repos, newest first. Engine instrumentation and snap-sync land in Nethermind; the orchestrator and benchmark tooling live in their own repos. Closed-without-merge PRs are omitted.

15 merged 2 open 4 draft contributors: @AnkushinDaniil, @dmitriy-b, @marcindsobczak

June 2026

  1. Jun 18 nethermind merged
    #12059 eth/rlpx: cap outgoing block bodies under the devp2p message-size limit @AnkushinDaniil
  2. Jun 17 ethereum/go-ethereum open
    #35189 eth/downloader, cmd: add --snap.skipreceipts for state-only snap sync @AnkushinDaniil
  3. Jun 16 state-benchmarks merged
    #36 Mock consensus layer (Engine-API driver) for frozen-milestone snap-sync + replay @AnkushinDaniil
  4. Jun 12 nethermind merged
    #11981 Merge.Plugin: produce testing_commitBlockV1 blocks on the main world state @AnkushinDaniil
  5. Jun 12 state-benchmarks draft
    #34 Locust-based benchmarking framework @dmitriy-b
  6. Jun 9 nethermind merged
    #11943 Sync.StaticSnapPivot — fixed-pivot snap sync from a frozen peer @AnkushinDaniil

May 2026

  1. May 27 nethermind draft
    #11788 StateDiffsWriter — replace the StateComposition plugin (diff-only + Go sidecar) @AnkushinDaniil
  2. May 25 nethermind merged
    #11746 Validate FCU safe/finalized by ancestry when main-chain markers are outdated @marcindsobczak
  3. May 19 nethermind merged
    #11681 Fix forkchoice-update (FCU) validation order @marcindsobczak
  4. May 13 nethermind merged
    #11586 StateComposition: refuse to publish a partial-scan baseline @AnkushinDaniil
  5. May 13 nethermind merged
    #11593 Merge.Plugin: skip duplicate processing in testing_commitBlockV1 @AnkushinDaniil
  6. May 5 nethermind merged
    #11498 Add proof_getProofWithMeta JSON-RPC method (witness instrumentation) @AnkushinDaniil

April 2026

  1. Apr 28 nethermind merged
    #11385 testing_commitBlockV1 — commit a block on the chain head @AnkushinDaniil
  2. Apr 28 nethermind merged
    #11382 statecomp: serialize empty histograms, bootstrap on first new head @AnkushinDaniil
  3. Apr 24 eth-perf-research draft
    #77 Go bloating orchestrator + sidecar + cross-EL replay @AnkushinDaniil
  4. Apr 23 ethereum/execution-apis open
    #787 Add testing_commitBlockV1 RPC method (upstream standardization) @marcindsobczak
  5. Apr 23 ethereum/execution-specs draft
    #2746 Spamoor → EEST migration: spamoor + testing_build_block test kinds @dmitriy-b
  6. Apr 21 nethermind merged
    #11280 Serialize testing_commitBlockV1 payload with EthereumJsonSerializer @AnkushinDaniil
  7. Apr 20 nethermind merged
    #11254 HistoryPruner: self-bootstrap in TryPruneHistory @AnkushinDaniil
  8. Apr 6 nethermind merged
    #11050 Snap-serving fixes (×4): path-group limit, ISnapServer DI, SnapServingEnabled CLI override, 2 MB message limit @AnkushinDaniil

March 2026

  1. Mar 30 nethermind merged
    #10995 StateComposition plugin — real-time state metrics with incremental tracking (the original sensor) @AnkushinDaniil

Project pull requests by the three contributors across the project repos and the upstream Ethereum specs. Closed-unmerged PRs are excluded. Dates are when each PR was opened; the badge shows current status. Generated from a GitHub scan on 2026-06-25.