Port (op-) reth to ICP

[domwoe]

Hi,

I'd like to explore the viability of porting (op-) reth to the Internet Computer and I'm looking for developers who are familiar with the codebase. The work can be supported by a Developer Grant of the DFINTY foundation.

Why?

Running a sequencer on ICP would provide a decentralized sequencer by default. There is also upcoming work on threshold encryption on ICP which could allow to sequence encrypted data and only allow decryption afterwards.

How?

The Internet Computer is a decentralized computing platform using a WASM Runtime. Natively it support wasm-unknown-unkown as build target, but there exists a WASI polyfill as well. Canister smart contracts on ICP have access to more than 400 GiB of memory currently, and can sign Ethereum transactions leveraging the platforms Threshold ECDSA feature. Furthermore, they can listen to events on Ethereum leveraging HTTPS outcalls or the EVM RPC canister. Long term, there is a plan to have a direct integration with the Ethereum network by running ETH nodes on the same machine as ICP nodes.

Related Work

• Eiger ported the Helios Light Client to ICP: https://github.com/eigerco/ethereum-canister
• Bitfinity is working on an EVM inside a canister based on reth: https://github.com/bitfinity-network

Please let me know if you are interested in this.