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Floresta

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Floresta

A lightweight, embeddable Bitcoin client built around Utreexo accumulators, aimed at letting users validate the chain with far less disk and memory than a conventional full node.

Image from the business's own website.

Services

  • Utreexo-based validation
  • Low resource footprint
  • Embeddable client
  • Electrum server mode

Highlights

  • #open-source
  • #utreexo
  • #lightweight
  • #rust

Source: Official GitHub repository. Last checked 2026-09-18. Spot an error? Tell us.

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