Tooling & Infrastructure

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