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 The Rust EVM project has a long history dating back to the initial
 implementation in 2017 (when it was called SputnikVM). It has gone through
 multiple rewrites over the years to accommodate for different requirements,
-when we successfully tested one integrating Geth to sync the mainnet.
+when we successfully tested it by integrating Geth to sync the mainnet.
 
 The current rewrite is used in production for the Frontier project (the
 Ethereum-compatibility layer for Polkadot). However, we have not yet fully