diff --git a/besu/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/cli/BesuCommand.java b/besu/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/cli/BesuCommand.java
index 029f87b005b..edcc248ab34 100644
--- a/besu/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/cli/BesuCommand.java
+++ b/besu/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/cli/BesuCommand.java
@@ -1816,10 +1816,8 @@ public BesuControllerBuilder setupControllerBuilder() {
     if (DataStorageFormat.BONSAI.equals(getDataStorageConfiguration().getDataStorageFormat())) {
       final DiffBasedSubStorageConfiguration subStorageConfiguration =
           getDataStorageConfiguration().getDiffBasedSubStorageConfiguration();
-      if (subStorageConfiguration.getLimitTrieLogsEnabled()) {
-        besuControllerBuilder.isParallelTxProcessingEnabled(
-            subStorageConfiguration.getUnstable().isParallelTxProcessingEnabled());
-      }
+      besuControllerBuilder.isParallelTxProcessingEnabled(
+          subStorageConfiguration.getUnstable().isParallelTxProcessingEnabled());
     }
     return besuControllerBuilder;
   }
diff --git a/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/AbstractBlockProcessor.java b/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/AbstractBlockProcessor.java
index 993478fe50c..97a8e1f7d9c 100644
--- a/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/AbstractBlockProcessor.java
+++ b/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/AbstractBlockProcessor.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.core.Transaction;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.core.TransactionReceipt;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.core.Withdrawal;
+import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.mainnet.AbstractBlockProcessor.PreprocessingFunction.NoPreprocessing;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.mainnet.requests.ProcessRequestContext;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.mainnet.requests.RequestProcessorCoordinator;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.privacy.storage.PrivateMetadataUpdater;
@@ -99,6 +100,26 @@ public BlockProcessingResult processBlock(
       final List<BlockHeader> ommers,
       final Optional<List<Withdrawal>> maybeWithdrawals,
       final PrivateMetadataUpdater privateMetadataUpdater) {
+    return processBlock(
+        blockchain,
+        worldState,
+        blockHeader,
+        transactions,
+        ommers,
+        maybeWithdrawals,
+        privateMetadataUpdater,
+        new NoPreprocessing());
+  }
+
+  protected BlockProcessingResult processBlock(
+      final Blockchain blockchain,
+      final MutableWorldState worldState,
+      final BlockHeader blockHeader,
+      final List<Transaction> transactions,
+      final List<BlockHeader> ommers,
+      final Optional<List<Withdrawal>> maybeWithdrawals,
+      final PrivateMetadataUpdater privateMetadataUpdater,
+      final PreprocessingFunction preprocessingBlockFunction) {
     final List<TransactionReceipt> receipts = new ArrayList<>();
     long currentGasUsed = 0;
     long currentBlobGasUsed = 0;
@@ -125,7 +146,7 @@ public BlockProcessingResult processBlock(
             .orElse(Wei.ZERO);
 
     final Optional<PreprocessingContext> preProcessingContext =
-        runBlockPreProcessing(
+        preprocessingBlockFunction.run(
             worldState,
             privateMetadataUpdater,
             blockHeader,
@@ -255,17 +276,6 @@ public BlockProcessingResult processBlock(
         parallelizedTxFound ? Optional.of(nbParallelTx) : Optional.empty());
   }
 
-  protected Optional<PreprocessingContext> runBlockPreProcessing(
-      final MutableWorldState worldState,
-      final PrivateMetadataUpdater privateMetadataUpdater,
-      final BlockHeader blockHeader,
-      final List<Transaction> transactions,
-      final Address miningBeneficiary,
-      final BlockHashLookup blockHashLookup,
-      final Wei blobGasPrice) {
-    return Optional.empty();
-  }
-
   protected TransactionProcessingResult getTransactionProcessingResult(
       final Optional<PreprocessingContext> preProcessingContext,
       final MutableWorldState worldState,
@@ -318,5 +328,30 @@ abstract boolean rewardCoinbase(
       final boolean skipZeroBlockRewards);
 
   public interface PreprocessingContext {}
-  ;
+
+  public interface PreprocessingFunction {
+    Optional<PreprocessingContext> run(
+        final MutableWorldState worldState,
+        final PrivateMetadataUpdater privateMetadataUpdater,
+        final BlockHeader blockHeader,
+        final List<Transaction> transactions,
+        final Address miningBeneficiary,
+        final BlockHashLookup blockHashLookup,
+        final Wei blobGasPrice);
+
+    class NoPreprocessing implements PreprocessingFunction {
+
+      @Override
+      public Optional<PreprocessingContext> run(
+          final MutableWorldState worldState,
+          final PrivateMetadataUpdater privateMetadataUpdater,
+          final BlockHeader blockHeader,
+          final List<Transaction> transactions,
+          final Address miningBeneficiary,
+          final BlockHashLookup blockHashLookup,
+          final Wei blobGasPrice) {
+        return Optional.empty();
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/parallelization/MainnetParallelBlockProcessor.java b/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/parallelization/MainnetParallelBlockProcessor.java
index 688ff918cb4..ce602c72756 100644
--- a/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/parallelization/MainnetParallelBlockProcessor.java
+++ b/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/parallelization/MainnetParallelBlockProcessor.java
@@ -16,9 +16,13 @@
 
 import org.hyperledger.besu.datatypes.Address;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.datatypes.Wei;
+import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.BlockProcessingResult;
+import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.chain.Blockchain;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.core.BlockHeader;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.core.MutableWorldState;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.core.Transaction;
+import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.core.Withdrawal;
+import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.mainnet.AbstractBlockProcessor.PreprocessingFunction.NoPreprocessing;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.mainnet.BlockProcessor;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.mainnet.MainnetBlockProcessor;
 import org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.mainnet.MainnetTransactionProcessor;
@@ -37,8 +41,13 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Optional;
 
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
 public class MainnetParallelBlockProcessor extends MainnetBlockProcessor {
 
+  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MainnetParallelBlockProcessor.class);
+
   private final Optional<MetricsSystem> metricsSystem;
   private final Optional<Counter> confirmedParallelizedTransactionCounter;
   private final Optional<Counter> conflictingButCachedTransactionCounter;
@@ -78,34 +87,6 @@ public MainnetParallelBlockProcessor(
                     "Counter for the number of conflicted transactions during block processing"));
   }
 
-  @Override
-  protected Optional<PreprocessingContext> runBlockPreProcessing(
-      final MutableWorldState worldState,
-      final PrivateMetadataUpdater privateMetadataUpdater,
-      final BlockHeader blockHeader,
-      final List<Transaction> transactions,
-      final Address miningBeneficiary,
-      final BlockHashLookup blockHashLookup,
-      final Wei blobGasPrice) {
-    if ((worldState instanceof DiffBasedWorldState)) {
-      ParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor =
-          new ParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor(transactionProcessor);
-      // runAsyncBlock, if activated, facilitates the  non-blocking parallel execution of
-      // transactions in the background through an optimistic strategy.
-      parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor.runAsyncBlock(
-          worldState,
-          blockHeader,
-          transactions,
-          miningBeneficiary,
-          blockHashLookup,
-          blobGasPrice,
-          privateMetadataUpdater);
-      return Optional.of(
-          new ParallelizedPreProcessingContext(parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor));
-    }
-    return Optional.empty();
-  }
-
   @Override
   protected TransactionProcessingResult getTransactionProcessingResult(
       final Optional<PreprocessingContext> preProcessingContext,
@@ -126,7 +107,7 @@ protected TransactionProcessingResult getTransactionProcessingResult(
           (ParallelizedPreProcessingContext) preProcessingContext.get();
       transactionProcessingResult =
           parallelizedPreProcessingContext
-              .getParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor()
+              .parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor()
               .applyParallelizedTransactionResult(
                   worldState,
                   miningBeneficiary,
@@ -154,21 +135,48 @@ protected TransactionProcessingResult getTransactionProcessingResult(
     }
   }
 
-  static class ParallelizedPreProcessingContext implements PreprocessingContext {
-    final ParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor;
-
-    public ParallelizedPreProcessingContext(
-        final ParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor
-            parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor) {
-      this.parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor = parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor;
-    }
-
-    public ParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor
-        getParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor() {
-      return parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor;
+  @Override
+  public BlockProcessingResult processBlock(
+      final Blockchain blockchain,
+      final MutableWorldState worldState,
+      final BlockHeader blockHeader,
+      final List<Transaction> transactions,
+      final List<BlockHeader> ommers,
+      final Optional<List<Withdrawal>> maybeWithdrawals,
+      final PrivateMetadataUpdater privateMetadataUpdater) {
+    final BlockProcessingResult blockProcessingResult =
+        super.processBlock(
+            blockchain,
+            worldState,
+            blockHeader,
+            transactions,
+            ommers,
+            maybeWithdrawals,
+            privateMetadataUpdater,
+            new ParallelTransactionPreprocessing());
+    if (blockProcessingResult.isFailed()) {
+      // Fallback to non-parallel processing if there is a block processing exception .
+      LOG.info(
+          "Parallel transaction processing failure. Falling back to non-parallel processing for block #{} ({})",
+          blockHeader.getNumber(),
+          blockHeader.getBlockHash());
+      return super.processBlock(
+          blockchain,
+          worldState,
+          blockHeader,
+          transactions,
+          ommers,
+          maybeWithdrawals,
+          privateMetadataUpdater,
+          new NoPreprocessing());
     }
+    return blockProcessingResult;
   }
 
+  record ParallelizedPreProcessingContext(
+      ParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor)
+      implements PreprocessingContext {}
+
   public static class ParallelBlockProcessorBuilder
       implements ProtocolSpecBuilder.BlockProcessorBuilder {
 
@@ -196,4 +204,35 @@ public BlockProcessor apply(
           metricsSystem);
     }
   }
+
+  class ParallelTransactionPreprocessing implements PreprocessingFunction {
+
+    @Override
+    public Optional<PreprocessingContext> run(
+        final MutableWorldState worldState,
+        final PrivateMetadataUpdater privateMetadataUpdater,
+        final BlockHeader blockHeader,
+        final List<Transaction> transactions,
+        final Address miningBeneficiary,
+        final BlockHashLookup blockHashLookup,
+        final Wei blobGasPrice) {
+      if ((worldState instanceof DiffBasedWorldState)) {
+        ParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor =
+            new ParallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor(transactionProcessor);
+        // When enabled, runAsyncBlock performs non-conflicting parallel execution of transactions
+        // in the background using an optimistic approach.
+        parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor.runAsyncBlock(
+            worldState,
+            blockHeader,
+            transactions,
+            miningBeneficiary,
+            blockHashLookup,
+            blobGasPrice,
+            privateMetadataUpdater);
+        return Optional.of(
+            new ParallelizedPreProcessingContext(parallelizedConcurrentTransactionProcessor));
+      }
+      return Optional.empty();
+    }
+  }
 }