Update the initial balance

This reverts commit bd4de2c83d.

crates/node/src/constants.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /// This constant defines how much Wei accounts are pre-seeded with in genesis.
 ///
-/// We use [`u128::MAX`] here which means that accounts will be given 2^128 - 1 WEI which is
-/// (2^128 - 1) / 10^18 ETH.
-pub const INITIAL_BALANCE: u128 = u128::MAX;
+/// Note: After changing this number, check that the tests for kitchensink work as we encountered
+/// some issues with different values of the initial balance on Kitchensink.
+pub const INITIAL_BALANCE: u128 = 10u128.pow(37);

crates/node/src/geth.rs

@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ impl Instance {
         for signer_address in
             <EthereumWallet as NetworkWallet<Ethereum>>::signer_addresses(&self.wallet)
         {
+            // Note, the use of the entry API here means that we only modify the entries for any
+            // account that is not in the `alloc` field of the genesis state.
             genesis
                 .alloc
                 .entry(signer_address)

crates/node/src/kitchensink.rs

@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ impl KitchensinkNode {
             for signer_address in
                 <EthereumWallet as NetworkWallet<Ethereum>>::signer_addresses(&self.wallet)
             {
+                // Note, the use of the entry API here means that we only modify the entries for any
+                // account that is not in the `alloc` field of the genesis state.
                 genesis
                     .alloc
                     .entry(signer_address)

genesis.json

@@ -33,9 +33,5 @@
     "mixhash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
     "parentHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
     "timestamp": "0x00",
-    "alloc": {
-        "90F8bf6A479f320ead074411a4B0e7944Ea8c9C1": {
-            "balance": "10000000000000000000000"
-        }
-    }
+    "alloc": {}
 }