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Dev Tools Guild August update

· 5 min read
Andrew B Coathup
Andrew B Coathup
Guild Coordinator

TL;DR: Solidity Summit 2025 in Buenos Aires, Vyper granted $50,000 from ENS public goods, Optimism's Retro Funding continues to support member projects.

Dev Tools Guild members​

Smart Contract Languages​

Solidity​

Vyper​

Client Libraries​

alloy​

viem​

web3.py​

  • web3.py v7.13.0: support parallelization of subscription handling globally and per-subscription.

Frameworks and Dev Environments​

Ape Framework​

  • ape-erpc (plugin): use any supported network on your instance via Ape.

Foundry​

  • Foundry v1.3.0: includes forge lint support, time-based campaigns and coverage-guided fuzzing for invariant tests, table tests, fork test improvements for Reth clients and new EIP-712 features.

Standardisation Tooling​

Sourcify​

Ethereum Layer 1​

Ethereum Foundation​

  • Updates on EF Protocol strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale blobs and Improve UX. EF Protocol also held an AMA on r/Ethereum subreddit.
  • Justin Drake's lean Ethereum vision for the next 10 years covering both defense (fort mode) and offense (beast mode).
  • Trillion Dollar Security project phase 2: plans for a wallet minimum security standard, improving blind signing and a contract vulnerability database.
  • The Proximity Prize: $1M in prizes to prove/disprove Reed-Solomon proximity gaps conjectures, to advance the foundations of modern zkVMs.
  • Ecosystem Support Program is being redesigned to a more proactive model focusing on strategic initiatives. Grant applications are temporarily paused.
  • EF is hiring a Developer Tooling Coordinator. The Dev Tools Guild can't wait to work with the successful candidate.

Gas limit increase​

  • Blockers are being worked through to increase the gas limit to 60M (up from 45M).

Fusaka upgrade (target Q4 2025)​

  • Headliner: L2 scaling via EIP7594 PeerDAS and EIP7892 Blob parameter only upgrades.
  • Upgrade timeline: mainnet will potentially be in early December (if testing goes well) but the timeline is tight. Holešky testnet will be upgraded first, followed by Sepolia and finally Hoodi.
  • The current upgrade process specifies 30 days between client releases being available & upgrading the first testnet and 30 days between upgrading the last testnet & mainnet. Timing requirements are being checked with Layer 2s and infrastructure teams.
  • Current devnet: Fusaka-devnet-3 (specs).
  • Fusaka-devnet-5 (specs): short lived devnet planned for early September. It will launch once syncing issues discovered during non-finality testing are fixed & retested and consensus layer client teams have merged to trunk branches.
  • Fusaka audit contest with up to $2M in rewards starts September 15.

Holešky testnet​

  • Holešky will be deprecated after upgrading to Fusaka.

Glamsterdam upgrade (target 2026)​

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