Ethereum client - arealive/Viper GitHub Wiki
For security purposes, three independent full-node wallet implementations were originally created for Ethereum.
- Geth
- Eth
- Pyethapp leverages pyethereum and pydevp2p
The clients have almost identical functionality, so the one you pick is left to personal choice on platform, language and what your planned use is for the network.
If you are building a business that needs to have maximum uptime guarantees to the Ethereum network, we recommend that you run at least one instance of both clients to ensure reliability.1
More clients were built including:
- Parity a full-node wallet and dapp browser that integrates into a web browser.
- testrpc a developer friendly client2
[2] https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-smart-contracts-in-ethereum-848f08001f05