From RocksDB Pain to GraniteDB Gain: Building a Blockchain-First Storage Engine in Rust

Building Ferrous Network exposed the limits of general-purpose databases. Here's why I'm writing GraniteDB from scratch. Hey folks, Altug here — founder of Ferrous Network , a Rust-based Bitcoin-like L1 blockchain that's live on testnet. Today I want to share a very specific dev story: how wrestling with RocksDB in production led me to start GraniteDB , a correctness-first storage engine designed specifically for blockchain state. The Pain Point That Started It All When building Ferrous, I neede