diff --git a/core/state/statedb.go b/core/state/statedb.go
index 76e67d839d..ccd6f3d786 100644
--- a/core/state/statedb.go
+++ b/core/state/statedb.go
@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ func (self *StateDB) Reset(root common.Hash) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (self *StateDB) GetTrie() Trie {
+  return self.trie
+}
+
 func (self *StateDB) AddLog(log *types.Log) {
 	self.journal.append(addLogChange{txhash: self.thash})
 
diff --git a/eth/api.go b/eth/api.go
index 816b9cd335..432752c439 100644
--- a/eth/api.go
+++ b/eth/api.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"compress/gzip"
 	"context"
 	"errors"
+  "bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"math/big"
@@ -47,6 +48,47 @@ type PublicEthereumAPI struct {
 	e *Ethereum
 }
 
+type addressMap map[common.Hash]common.Address
+
+type AccountRangeResult struct {
+ AddressMap addressMap `json:"addressMap"`
+}
+
+func accountRange(st state.Trie, start *common.Hash, maxResult int) (AccountRangeResult, error) {
+ it := trie.NewIterator(st.NodeIterator(start[:]))
+ result := AccountRangeResult{AddressMap: addressMap{}}
+ for i := 0; i < maxResult && it.Next(); i++ {
+   key := st.GetKey(it.Key)
+   // If key is nil, that means it wasn't found in the preimage database.
+   // This is not a problem, because we still return the hash of the key together with
+   // address zero and the client can very easily determine that the hash of the addres zero
+   // is not matching, which means it wasn't found.
+   result.AddressMap[common.BytesToHash(it.Key)] = common.BytesToAddress(key)
+ }
+ return result, nil
+}
+
+//block hash or number, tx index, start address hash, max results
+func (api *PrivateDebugAPI) AccountRangeAt(ctx context.Context, blockNr rpc.BlockNumber, txIndex int, startAddr *common.Hash, maxResults int) (AccountRangeResult, error) {
+ zeros := make([]byte, common.HashLength)
+
+ if (maxResults > 100) {
+   maxResults = 100
+ }
+
+ if bytes.Equal(startAddr[:], zeros) {
+   startAddr = nil
+ }
+
+ blockHash := api.eth.blockchain.CurrentBlock().Hash()
+ _, _, statedb, err := api.computeTxEnv(blockHash, txIndex, 0)
+ if err != nil {
+   return AccountRangeResult{}, err
+ }
+
+ return accountRange(statedb.GetTrie(), startAddr, maxResults)
+}
+
 // NewPublicEthereumAPI creates a new Ethereum protocol API for full nodes.
 func NewPublicEthereumAPI(e *Ethereum) *PublicEthereumAPI {
 	return &PublicEthereumAPI{e}