Tooling & Infrastructure

Monthly DeFi Ecosystem Update by Today in DeFi Among Large Caps, Solana showed  growth across most metrics in October, though recent declines in token prices have dampened some of its momentum.  Layer 2s saw a shift as Base surpassed Arbitrum in both TVL and trading activity, now leading among all

Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #144 Pectra Devnet 3 & 4 Barnabas Busa plans to shut down Pectra Devnet 3 soon but will first troubleshoot a block proposal issue with the Grandine client. Pectra Devnet 4, Busa wants one more execution layer client to pass tests before launch,

Tooling 🛠 Ethereum * Solidity introduces version v0.8.28, allowing full support for transient storage state variables, faster compilation via IR, lower RAM usage, and bug fixes. * Teku introduces v24.10.1, addressing a startup issue with the --validators-proposer-config option from the previous version. Solana * jac0xb.sol introduces Lighthouse V2, the

Tooling 🛠 Ethereum * Nimbus introduced nrpc, allowing offline syncing with era1/era file support and continuous sync without p2p connectivity when connected to a CL. * Nimbus released v24.9.0, featuring beacon API improvements and stability fixes in a low-urgency release. Solana * Helius introduced AirShip, enabling fast, open-source mass airdrops that

Tooling 🛠 Ethereum * Coinbase released SDK v0.6.0, it includes a tokenization API allowing developers to deploy ERC-20 with one line of code. * Coinbase released a one-stop resource to all the demo apps built with the CDP SDK and other CDP tools. * Go Ethereum introduces Geth v1.14.9, a