The Gate Layer execution-layer client will be upgraded to Reth on July 14; users do not need to migrate assets.

Gate News: According to Gate’s official announcement, Gate Layer will smoothly upgrade the global execution-layer client from Geth to Reth. Reth is a high-performance Ethereum execution client written in Rust, supporting the execution-layer running mode for OP Stack chains. This upgrade is for node infrastructure; it will not change Gate Layer’s chain ID, account system, contract addresses, transaction format, RPC API compatibility, or on-chain asset status.

The upgrade window is from 2026-07-14 11:00 to 12:00 (UTC+8). During the upgrade, standard JSON-RPC methods will remain compatible, including commonly used interfaces such as eth_sendRawTransaction, eth_call, eth_getLogs, and eth_getBlockByNumber. The chain ID, block explorers, contract addresses, and historical status will remain unchanged.

Gate Layer will use a blue-green deployment scheme to ensure global stability and enable emergency rollback. The existing op-node and Geth will continue running as the production path, while op-reth will be started in parallel for catching up and validation. After the Reth nodes catch up and pass consistency checks across RPC, transactions, block height, and logs, production traffic will be switched within the maintenance window. Users and application developers do not need to migrate assets or redeploy contracts.