The developers of the Ethereum client project Akula announced that they will no longer maintain or run the project because they cannot compete with the newly announced rival project Reth, which has similar functionality and is operated by the well-known crypto venture capital firm Paradigm. However, the Akula code is open source and therefore still available.
It is reported that Akula is a high-performance Ethereum client written in Rust. Ethereum clients are software applications that allow nodes to read blocks on the network and interact with smart contracts. (The Block)