Solidity compilation just got up to 5× faster!
Today we’re releasing hardhat-slang-solx, a Hardhat plugin powered by Nomic Foundation’s new LLVM-based compiler backend: slang-solx.
- 1.7× faster than solc in legacy mode
- 5× faster than solc --via-ir
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Programmable money needs programmable accounts.
Excited to see the Ethereum protocol turn account abstraction into a native feature.
Frames can be hard to grasp at first because they build on a decade of work to bring native account abstraction to programmable blockchains.
But they are the stepping stone we need to build a private, secure, post-quantum future on Ethereum.
To me it boils down to focus on shipping a few key EIPs in Hegota:
- EIP-8141: Frame Transactions, the core, already scheduled for inclusion
- EIP-8250 and EIP-8272: Enable native, trustless private transactions
- EIP-7906: Helps protect users against wallet drainers and malicious transactions
Frames are also about scaling. It’s often overlooked, but they unlock signature and STARK aggregation (e.g., EIP-8288), reducing the bandwidth and verification costs that make post-quantum transactions so heavy.
Security, UX, and scaling in one EIP
Hard to beat
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Frame transactions, or native Account Abstraction, improve Ethereum in so many ways:
- users choose their signature scheme
- passkeys, post-quantum, etc
- signature aggregation
- key rotation
- atomic batching
- gas payments in ERC-20s
- no bundlers or relayers required
- contracts can sponsor transactions
- safer (tx assertions)
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frames are all you need
built the frame family in nethermind, 8141/8250/8272/7906. several of the examples in this post are ones we already shipped.
Frames are all you need.
my arguments as to why I believe EIP-8141 provides the all the needed flexibility for the foreseeable future and could be Ethereum's last transaction type
If you're coming to @EFDevcon this year, check out my guide with tips to make your journey easier!
Feel free to reach out if you're worried about anything or just need travel recommendations 😄
Looking forward to seeing a lot of you in Mumbai!
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Transactions assertions will be one of those features that we look back on and wonder how we used Ethereum without them.
EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) was SFI'd in the last ACDE.
We've been frames-pilled since it was first proposed as a headliner, and we started building a reference implementation on ethrex back then. Adoption grew with time: other clients picked frames up, there are now execution spec tests (our implementation matches the latest release), and an official EthPandaOps-hosted frames devnet is getting close.
We didn't want to make anyone wait for it, so we're already hosting a public testnet for frame transactions, built on top of Glamsterdam.
Validator entry is permissioned; everything else on the chain is not. Anyone can sync, peer, and transact, and the faucet funds test accounts. If your client team is working on frames and wants to validate, reach out and we'll set you up with deposit tokens.
RPC, explorer, and frame tooling, including a CLI that builds and submits frame transactions:
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after discovering that all top websites are wrong, i'm announcing the most accurate (or at least the most auditable) tracker of the ETH supply 🧵
Half of 8130 is application-layer specifics that shouldn’t be defined in the protocol.
8141 supports permissionless innovation & doesn’t force wallets and users into specific use patterns. this is important because can’t assume we’ll always be around to tweak the account system
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Now that it is obvious that a change to issuance is hotly contested, I think we can put it back onto the shelf.
There is no point to divide the community over this.
Let’s build an open and ownerless version of POAP that costs nothing to serve beyond using the Ethereum RPC.
everyone
"the 63/64th rule in evm is really annoying"
glamsterdam
"hold my beer"
Two days left to vote for the Glamsterdam mascot (pls vote polar bear):
Less change leads to more confidence in the system’s long-term properties.
I fail to see how cutting issuance again will change anything.
The Merge cut issuance by roughly 90%. ETH/BTC has still fallen by more than 60% since then.
As a former genesis solo staker, I’m skeptical that another cut is the answer. Institutions can absorb tiny yields; home stakers cannot.
What evidence shows that solo stakers won’t be pushed out first?
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Let's build a formally verified compiler together
Collaborative automated research can be an amazing tool for formal verification, and vice versa
We're launching two new challenges on @paradigm Puzzles to help complete Solidus: a formally verified Solidity compiler in Lean
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