a16z, the crypto arm of Silicon Valley VC Andreessen Horowitz, has launched Helios, a gentle Ethereum client that syncs trustlessly to Ethereum in two seconds, doesn’t absorb any storage home and could maybe bustle on smartphones.

Helios converts knowledge from untrustworthy nodes, equivalent to folk that bustle on centralized cloud computing providers servers, into non-manipulable info that runs on native, faithful computers.

Consequently, users can verify the authenticity of their queries with out having to bustle a elephantine node. That’s precious, since working a elephantine node requires downloading a terabyte of info – a capability most telephones don’t beget.

The patron contains an execution layer and a consensus layer. Helios couples these layers collectively tightly so as that users handiest beget to set up a single share of instrument.

Helios is written in Rust and supports a favored code for net browsers, WebAssembly. Developers can embed Helios interior Javascript-based completely wallets and decentralized applications.