The official blog of Ethereum client Erigon stated that it will end support for Erigon’s Rust version Akula.
The team recently discovered that a Rust-based Ethereum implementation would be open source with almost the same scope as Akula and have some of the same/similar building blocks. The Erigon team believes that the project will be more supported and popular after being open-sourced, and its functions will soon match and surpass Akula.
Compared with the resources and influence behind the project, Erigon cannot guarantee that Akula can attract future funding, so it decided to cancel the technical, management and financial support for Akula.