Web3 investment firm Paradigm has released a Rust implementation of Ethereum, according to a Dec. 7 announcement from the company’s chief technology officer, Georgios Konstantopoulos. The new software, called “Reth,” allows Ethereum validators to launch their nodes using Rust instead of Go, Java, or other programming languages.

A previous Rust implementation had been released in June, but developers 

In September, Ethereum completed The Merge, an event that eliminated mining and allowed Ethereum holders to stake their coins for additional rewards. But it still suffers from high transaction fees during bull markets. A series of upgrades is planned that developers believe will allow it to handle millions of transactions per day with low fees. Its founder, Vitalik Buterin, has recently written about his excitement for the future of the network.