This is a fork of Optimism's op-geth, which itself is a fork of go-ethereum (geth). It is used as the execution client for the Celo L2 blockchain.
For more information, see the Celo L2 documentation, especially the section on running a Celo node.
For prerequisites and detailed build instructions please read the Installation Instructions.
Building geth requires both a Go (version 1.22 or later) and a C compiler. You can install
them using your favourite package manager. Once the dependencies are installed, run
make gethor, to build the full suite of utilities:
make allThe go-ethereum project comes with several wrappers/executables found in the cmd
directory.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
geth |
Our main Ethereum CLI client. It is the entry point into the Ethereum network (main-, test- or private net), capable of running as a full node (default), archive node (retaining all historical state) or a light node (retrieving data live). It can be used by other processes as a gateway into the Ethereum network via JSON RPC endpoints exposed on top of HTTP, WebSocket and/or IPC transports. geth --help and the CLI page for command line options. |
clef |
Stand-alone signing tool, which can be used as a backend signer for geth. |
devp2p |
Utilities to interact with nodes on the networking layer, without running a full blockchain. |
abigen |
Source code generator to convert Ethereum contract definitions into easy-to-use, compile-time type-safe Go packages. It operates on plain Ethereum contract ABIs with expanded functionality if the contract bytecode is also available. However, it also accepts Solidity source files, making development much more streamlined. Please see our Native DApps page for details. |
evm |
Developer utility version of the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) that is capable of running bytecode snippets within a configurable environment and execution mode. Its purpose is to allow isolated, fine-grained debugging of EVM opcodes (e.g. evm --code 60ff60ff --debug run). |
rlpdump |
Developer utility tool to convert binary RLP (Recursive Length Prefix) dumps (data encoding used by the Ethereum protocol both network as well as consensus wise) to user-friendlier hierarchical representation (e.g. rlpdump --hex CE0183FFFFFFC4C304050583616263). |
The go-ethereum library (i.e. all code outside of the cmd directory) is licensed under the
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0,
also included in our repository in the COPYING.LESSER file.
The go-ethereum binaries (i.e. all code inside of the cmd directory) are licensed under the
GNU General Public License v3.0, also
included in our repository in the COPYING file.