This is a very brief no-code post that reviews some cool aspects of the Rust Programming Language, intended to provide insights to those considering learning it. If you already have experience with Rust, I hope this post helps you decide whether you should keep making progress on it or not.

Since the merge an ethereum node consists of two layers, the execution layer (EL) and the consensus layer (CL). Each one of these have their own networking stack for peer-to-peer (from now on, p2p) communication.

One of the fundamental properties of the blockchain protocols that we use is trustlessness, we don’t need to know or trust each other for the system to function as expected. However, the majority of users that interact with them do so trusting a third party and what they claim to be the true state of the network.