diff --git a/contrib/Dockerfile_beefyserver b/contrib/Dockerfile_beefyserver
deleted file mode 100644
index e56fcd9..0000000
--- a/contrib/Dockerfile_beefyserver
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-# ElectrumX for Bitcoin, with RocksDB
-# This Dockerfile is intended for modern multi-core servers with at least 16 GB of RAM.
-# We compile our own free-threaded Python, with --disable-gil (which is experimental!), which makes
-# ElectrumX able to truly utilise multiple CPU cores and makes processing blocks significantly faster.
-#
-# Build: docker build -f Dockerfile_beefyserver --pull -t electrumx .
-# Run:   docker run -d --net=host -v ~/electrumx-db:/var/lib/electrumx -e DAEMON_URL="http://youruser:yourpass@localhost:8332" -e REPORT_SERVICES=tcp://example.com:50001 electrumx
-# Stop:  docker stop CONTAINER_ID
-
-FROM debian:trixie
-
-ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 LANG=C.UTF-8
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-
-WORKDIR /usr/src/app
-
-# Install libs needed to build CPython
-RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get -y install \
-        git \
-        wget \
-        make \
-        autotools-dev \
-        autoconf \
-        libtool \
-        xz-utils \
-        libssl-dev \
-        libssl3 \
-        openssl \
-        zlib1g-dev \
-        libffi-dev \
-        libncurses5-dev \
-        libsqlite3-dev \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# Install libs needed to build RocksDB
-RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install \
-        build-essential \
-        git \
-        librocksdb-dev \
-        pkg-config \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# build CPython (free-threaded, with --disable-gil)
-ARG PYTHON_VERSION="v3.14.6"
-RUN cd /opt && \
-    git clone https://github.com/python/cpython && \
-    cd cpython/ && \
-    git checkout "${PYTHON_VERSION}" && \
-    ./configure \
-        --prefix="/usr" \
-        --enable-ipv6 \
-        --enable-shared \
-        --disable-gil \
-        -q && \
-    make -s "-j$(nproc)" && \
-    make install
-
-RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
-
-# Install ElectrumX
-ARG ELECTRUMX_VERSION=2.0.0
-#ARG ELECTRUMX_VERSION=b8f6e227f251fe5cba96b940ffaa094439636417
-RUN python3 -m pip install \
-    "e_x[rocksdb] @ git+https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx.git@${ELECTRUMX_VERSION}"
-
-
-ENV SERVICES="tcp://:50001"
-ENV COIN=Bitcoin
-ENV DB_DIRECTORY=/var/lib/electrumx
-ENV DAEMON_URL="http://username:password@hostname:port/"
-ENV ALLOW_ROOT=true
-ENV DB_ENGINE=rocksdb
-ENV CACHE_MB=2000
-
-
-VOLUME /var/lib/electrumx
-
-RUN mkdir -p "$DB_DIRECTORY"
-
-CMD ["electrumx_server"]
diff --git a/contrib/daemontools/env/COIN b/contrib/daemontools/env/COIN
index fad2de3..e748905 100644
--- a/contrib/daemontools/env/COIN
+++ b/contrib/daemontools/env/COIN
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Bitcoin
+Palladium
diff --git a/contrib/daemontools/env/DAEMON_URL b/contrib/daemontools/env/DAEMON_URL
index e9e249e..4f99422 100644
--- a/contrib/daemontools/env/DAEMON_URL
+++ b/contrib/daemontools/env/DAEMON_URL
@@ -1 +1 @@
-http://username:password@host:port/
+http://username:password@127.0.0.1:2332/
diff --git a/contrib/daemontools/env/DB_ENGINE b/contrib/daemontools/env/DB_ENGINE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1400b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/daemontools/env/DB_ENGINE
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rocksdb
diff --git a/contrib/daemontools/env/SERVICES b/contrib/daemontools/env/SERVICES
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c1f0e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/daemontools/env/SERVICES
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tcp://:50001,rpc://
diff --git a/contrib/query.py b/contrib/query.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 077fd6c..0000000
--- a/contrib/query.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2016-2018, Neil Booth
-#
-# All rights reserved.
-#
-# See the file "LICENCE" for information about the copyright
-# and warranty status of this software.
-
-'''Script to query the database for debugging purposes.
-
-Not currently documented; might become easier to use in future.
-'''
-
-import argparse
-import asyncio
-
-from electrumx import Env
-from electrumx.server.db import DB
-from electrumx.lib.hash import hash_to_hex_str, Base58Error
-
-
-async def print_stats(hist_db, utxo_db):
-    count = 0
-    for key in utxo_db.iterator(prefix=b'u', include_value=False):
-        count += 1
-    print(f'UTXO count: {utxos}')
-
-    count = 0
-    for key in utxo_db.iterator(prefix=b'h', include_value=False):
-        count += 1
-    print(f'HashX count: {count}')
-
-    hist = 0
-    hist_len = 0
-    for key, value in hist_db.iterator(prefix=b'H'):
-        hist += 1
-        hist_len += len(value) // 4
-    print(f'History rows {hist:,d} entries {hist_len:,d}')
-
-
-def arg_to_hashX(coin, arg):
-    try:
-        script = bytes.fromhex(arg)
-        print(f'Script: {arg}')
-        return coin.hashX_from_script(script)
-    except ValueError:
-        pass
-
-    try:
-        hashX = coin.address_to_hashX(arg)
-        print(f'Address: {arg}')
-        return hashX
-    except Base58Error:
-        print(f'Ingoring unknown arg: {arg}')
-        return None
-
-
-async def query(args):
-    env = Env()
-    db = DB(env)
-    coin = env.coin
-
-    await db.open_for_serving()
-
-    if not args.scripts:
-        await print_stats(db.hist_db, db.utxo_db)
-        return
-    limit = args.limit
-    for arg in args.scripts:
-        hashX = arg_to_hashX(coin, arg)
-        if not hashX:
-            continue
-        n = None
-        history = await db.limited_history(hashX, limit=limit)
-        for n, (tx_hash, height) in enumerate(history, start=1):
-            print(f'History #{n:,d}: height {height:,d} '
-                  f'tx_hash {hash_to_hex_str(tx_hash)}')
-        if n is None:
-            print('No history found')
-        n = None
-        utxos = await db.all_utxos(hashX)
-        for n, utxo in enumerate(utxos, start=1):
-            print(f'UTXO #{n:,d}: tx_hash {hash_to_hex_str(utxo.txid_rev)} '
-                  f'tx_pos {utxo.tx_pos:,d} height {utxo.height:,d} '
-                  f'value {utxo.value:,d}')
-            if n == limit:
-                break
-        if n is None:
-            print('No UTXOs found')
-        balance = sum(utxo.value for utxo in utxos)
-        print(f'Balance: {coin.decimal_value(balance):,f} {coin.SHORTNAME}')
-
-
-def main():
-    default_limit = 10
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
-        'query.py',
-        description='Invoke with COIN and DB_DIRECTORY set in the '
-        'environment as they would be invoking electrumx_server'
-    )
-    parser.add_argument('-l', '--limit', metavar='limit', type=int,
-                        default=10, help=f'maximum number of entries to '
-                        f'return (default: {default_limit})')
-    parser.add_argument('scripts', nargs='*', default=[], type=str,
-                        help='hex scripts to query')
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-    asyncio.run(query(args))
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
diff --git a/contrib/raspberrypi3/install_electrumx.sh b/contrib/raspberrypi3/install_electrumx.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c7ad77..0000000
--- a/contrib/raspberrypi3/install_electrumx.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-###################
-# install electrumx
-###################
-
-# Remove "raspi-copies-and-fills" as it breaks the upgrade process
-sudo apt-get purge raspi-copies-and-fills
-
-# upgrade raspbian to 'stretch' distribution
-sudo echo 'deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing main contrib non-free rpi' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch.list
-sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
-sudo apt-get autoremove
-
-# install electrumx dependencies
-sudo apt-get install python3-pip
-sudo apt-get install build-essential libc6-dev
-sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
-sudo apt install libreadline6-dev/stable libreadline6/stable
-sudo apt-get install libleveldb-dev
-sudo apt-get install git
-sudo pip3 install plyvel
-
-# install electrumx
-git clone https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx.git
-cd electrumx
-sudo python3 -m pip install .
diff --git a/contrib/raspberrypi3/run_electrumx.sh b/contrib/raspberrypi3/run_electrumx.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index a022262..0000000
--- a/contrib/raspberrypi3/run_electrumx.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-###############
-# run_electrumx
-###############
-
-# configure electrumx
-export COIN=Bitcoin
-export DAEMON_URL=http://rpcuser:rpcpassword@127.0.0.1
-export NET=mainnet
-export CACHE_MB=400
-export DB_DIRECTORY=/home/username/.electrumx/db
-export SSL_CERTFILE=/home/username/.electrumx/certfile.crt
-export SSL_KEYFILE=/home/username/.electrumx/keyfile.key
-export BANNER_FILE=/home/username/.electrumx/banner
-export DONATION_ADDRESS=your-donation-address
-
-# connectivity
-export HOST=
-export TCP_PORT=50001
-export SSL_PORT=50002
-
-# visibility
-export REPORT_HOST=hostname.com
-export RPC_PORT=8000
-
-# run electrumx
-ulimit -n 10000
-/usr/local/bin/electrumx_server 2>> /home/username/.electrumx/electrumx.log >> /home/username/.electrumx/electrumx.log &
-
-######################
-# auto-start electrumx
-######################
-
-# add this line to crontab -e
-# @reboot /path/to/run_electrumx.sh
diff --git a/contrib/sdist/Dockerfile b/contrib/sdist/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 31597d0..0000000
--- a/contrib/sdist/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-FROM debian:bookworm@sha256:b877a1a3fdf02469440f1768cf69c9771338a875b7add5e80c45b756c92ac20a
-
-ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 LANG=C.UTF-8
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-
-RUN apt-get update -q && \
-    apt-get install -qy \
-        git \
-        python3 \
-        python3-pip \
-        python3-setuptools \
-        python3-venv \
-        python3-build \
-        && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
-    apt-get autoremove -y && \
-    apt-get clean
-
-# create new user to avoid using root; but with sudo access and no password for convenience.
-ARG UID=1000
-ENV USER="user"
-ENV HOME_DIR="/home/${USER}"
-ENV WORK_DIR="${HOME_DIR}/wspace" \
-    PATH="${HOME_DIR}/.local/bin:${PATH}"
-RUN useradd --uid $UID --create-home --shell /bin/bash ${USER}
-RUN usermod -append --groups sudo ${USER}
-RUN echo "%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
-WORKDIR ${WORK_DIR}
-RUN chown --recursive ${USER} ${WORK_DIR}
-USER ${USER}
diff --git a/contrib/sdist/README.md b/contrib/sdist/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 63e4566..0000000
--- a/contrib/sdist/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# Source tarballs
-
-✓ _These tarballs should be reproducible, meaning you should be able to generate
-   distributables that match the official releases._
-
-This assumes an Ubuntu (x86_64) host, but it should not be too hard to adapt to another
-similar system.
-
-
-## Build steps
-
-1. Install Docker
-
-    See [`docker_notes.md`](https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/contrib/docker_notes.md).
-
-    (worth reading even if you already have docker)
-
-2. Build tarball
-
-    ```
-    $ ./contrib/sdist/build.sh
-    ```
-    If you want reproducibility, try instead e.g.:
-    ```
-    $ ELECBUILD_COMMIT=HEAD ELECBUILD_NOCACHE=1 ./contrib/sdist/build.sh
-    ```
-
-3. The generated distributables are in `./dist`.
-
diff --git a/contrib/sdist/build.sh b/contrib/sdist/build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 29a2d5b..0000000
--- a/contrib/sdist/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# env vars:
-# - ELECBUILD_NOCACHE: if set, forces rebuild of docker image
-# - ELECBUILD_COMMIT: if set, do a fresh clone and git checkout
-
-set -e
-
-PROJECT_ROOT="$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")/../.."
-PROJECT_ROOT_OR_FRESHCLONE_ROOT="$PROJECT_ROOT"
-CONTRIB="$PROJECT_ROOT/contrib"
-CONTRIB_SDIST="$CONTRIB/sdist"
-DISTDIR="$PROJECT_ROOT/dist"
-BUILD_UID=$(/usr/bin/stat -c %u "$PROJECT_ROOT")
-
-export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1530212462
-export PYTHONHASHSEED=22
-
-
-DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS=""
-if [ ! -z "$ELECBUILD_NOCACHE" ] ; then
-    echo "ELECBUILD_NOCACHE is set. forcing rebuild of docker image."
-    DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS="--pull --no-cache"
-fi
-
-if [ -z "$ELECBUILD_COMMIT" ] ; then  # local dev build
-    DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS="$DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS --build-arg UID=$BUILD_UID"
-fi
-
-echo "building docker image."
-docker build \
-    $DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS \
-    -t electrumx-builder-img \
-    "$CONTRIB_SDIST"
-
-# maybe do fresh clone
-if [ ! -z "$ELECBUILD_COMMIT" ] ; then
-    echo "ELECBUILD_COMMIT=$ELECBUILD_COMMIT. doing fresh clone and git checkout."
-    FRESH_CLONE="/tmp/electrumx_build/fresh_clone/electrumx"
-    rm -rf "$FRESH_CLONE" 2>/dev/null || ( echo "we need sudo to rm prev FRESH_CLONE." && sudo rm -rf "$FRESH_CLONE" )
-    umask 0022
-    git clone "$PROJECT_ROOT" "$FRESH_CLONE"
-    cd "$FRESH_CLONE"
-    git checkout "$ELECBUILD_COMMIT"
-    PROJECT_ROOT_OR_FRESHCLONE_ROOT="$FRESH_CLONE"
-else
-    echo "not doing fresh clone."
-fi
-
-echo "building binary..."
-# check uid and maybe chown. see #8261
-if [ ! -z "$ELECBUILD_COMMIT" ] ; then  # fresh clone (reproducible build)
-    if [ $(id -u) != "1000" ] || [ $(id -g) != "1000" ] ; then
-        echo "need to chown -R FRESH_CLONE dir. prompting for sudo."
-        sudo chown -R 1000:1000 "$FRESH_CLONE"
-    fi
-fi
-docker run -it \
-    --name electrumx-builder-cont \
-    -v "$PROJECT_ROOT_OR_FRESHCLONE_ROOT":/opt/electrumx \
-    --rm \
-    --workdir /opt/electrumx/contrib/sdist \
-    electrumx-builder-img \
-    ./make_sdist.sh
-
-# make sure resulting binary location is independent of fresh_clone
-if [ ! -z "$ELECBUILD_COMMIT" ] ; then
-    mkdir --parents "$DISTDIR/"
-    cp -f "$FRESH_CLONE/dist"/* "$DISTDIR/"
-fi
diff --git a/contrib/sdist/make_sdist.sh b/contrib/sdist/make_sdist.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7348b55..0000000
--- a/contrib/sdist/make_sdist.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -e
-
-PROJECT_ROOT="$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")/../.."
-CONTRIB="$PROJECT_ROOT/contrib"
-CONTRIB_SDIST="$CONTRIB/sdist"
-BUILDDIR="$CONTRIB_SDIST/build"
-DISTDIR="$PROJECT_ROOT/dist"
-
-cd "$PROJECT_ROOT"
-
-rm -rf "$BUILDDIR"
-mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR" "$DISTDIR"
-
-
-git_status=$(git status --porcelain)
-if [ ! -z "$git_status" ]; then
-    echo "$git_status"
-    echo "git repo not clean, aborting"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-
-cd "$PROJECT_ROOT"
-python3 -m build --sdist . --outdir "$BUILDDIR/dist1"
-
-
-# the initial tar.gz is not reproducible, see https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2133
-# so we untar, fix timestamps, and then re-tar
-DISTNAME=$(find "$BUILDDIR/dist1/" -type f -name 'e_x-*.tar.gz' -printf "%f\\n")
-DIST_BASENAME=$(basename --suffix ".tar.gz" "$DISTNAME")
-mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR/dist2"
-cd "$BUILDDIR/dist2"
-tar -xzf "$BUILDDIR/dist1/$DISTNAME"
-find -exec touch -h -d '2000-11-11T11:11:11+00:00' {} +
-GZIP=-n tar --sort=name -czf "$DISTNAME" "$DIST_BASENAME/"
-mv "$DISTNAME" "$DISTDIR/$DISTNAME"
-
diff --git a/contrib/systemd/electrumx.conf b/contrib/systemd/electrumx.conf
index bf51db7..85e50a4 100644
--- a/contrib/systemd/electrumx.conf
+++ b/contrib/systemd/electrumx.conf
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
-# default /etc/electrumx.conf for systemd
+# default /etc/electrumx.conf for systemd (plm-electrumx, Palladium)
 
 # REQUIRED
 DB_DIRECTORY = /db
-# Bitcoin Node RPC Credentials
-DAEMON_URL = http://username:password@hostname:port/
+# leveldb or rocksdb (the matching pip extra must be installed)
+DB_ENGINE = rocksdb
+# Palladium node RPC credentials (the node needs server=1 and txindex=1)
+DAEMON_URL = http://username:password@127.0.0.1:2332/
+# without SERVICES the server accepts no connections. rpc:// is needed by electrumx_rpc (used by the service file to stop)
+SERVICES = tcp://:50001,rpc://
 
-# COIN = Bitcoin
+# Palladium is the default coin; NET can be mainnet (default), testnet or regtest
+# COIN = Palladium
+# NET = mainnet
 
-# See https://electrumx-spesmilo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/environment.html for
-# information about other configuration settings you probably want to consider.
+# See docs/environment.rst for information about other configuration settings
+# you probably want to consider (SSL_CERTFILE/SSL_KEYFILE and ssl:// in SERVICES, REPORT_SERVICES, ...).
diff --git a/docs/HOWTO.rst b/docs/HOWTO.rst
index 5692dca..ed8bf1c 100644
--- a/docs/HOWTO.rst
+++ b/docs/HOWTO.rst
@@ -234,17 +234,6 @@ Once configured you may want to start ElectrumX at boot::
    :file:`.service` file.
 
 
-Installing on Raspberry Pi 3
-----------------------------
-
-To install on the Raspberry Pi 3 you will need to update to the
-``stretch`` distribution.  See the full procedure in
-`contrib/raspberrypi3/install_electrumx.sh`_.
-
-See also `contrib/raspberrypi3/run_electrumx.sh`_ for an easy way to
-configure and launch electrumx.
-
-
 Sync Progress
 =============
 
@@ -451,5 +440,3 @@ You can then set the port as follows and advertise the service externally on the
 .. _`daemontools`: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
 .. _`runit`: http://smarden.org/runit/index.html
 .. _`aiohttp`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aiohttp
-.. _`contrib/raspberrypi3/install_electrumx.sh`: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/blob/master/contrib/raspberrypi3/install_electrumx.sh
-.. _`contrib/raspberrypi3/run_electrumx.sh`: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/blob/master/contrib/raspberrypi3/run_electrumx.sh