Network infrastructure

Stereum

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CLI · Docker · API · Privacy focused

Website Social stereum-dev/ethereum-node(153 ☆)

Stereum is a GUI-driven installer for syncing Ethereum and Optimism nodes locally and exposing your own JSON-RPC and websocket endpoints once blocks are current.

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