Dev Tools Guild July 2026 update

TL;DR: Solidity 0.8.36 adds Amsterdam EVM support. Sourcify passes 42M+ verified contracts. Foundry adds symbolic testing.

Dev Tools Guild members

Argot Collective H1 2026 transparency report includes Solidity & Sourcify.

Smart Contract Languages

Solidity

• Solidity 0.8.36: adds Amsterdam EVM version support, fixes for medium severity bugs (unsound spill in mutual recursion & inheritance order reversal on storage end warning) and experimental SSA CFG stack to memory spilling (mitigate stack too deep).
• Argot Collective Solidity roadmap update, Q1/2 review & Q3/4 focus for Classic & Core Solidity.
• Jacob Czepluch: What's next for Solidity & Moritz Hoffmann Fixing Stack Too Deep Ethereum Day Berlin blockchain week presentations.

Client Libraries

alloy (Rust)

• alloy v2.2.0: adds FromStr for PayloadId, AnyRpcBlock header conversion and block gas limit validation.

viem (TypeScript)

• viem v2.54.2 - v2.55.10: adds allowing onchain signature verification to be pinned to a specific block via EIP-1898, depositNonce & depositReceiptVersion to OP Stack transaction receipts, filterChains utility and getRawTransaction.
• viem.sh/tokens: type-safe, chain-aware utilities for interacting with tokens.
• wagmi v3.7.0 - v3.7.5.

Frameworks and Dev Environments

Foundry

• Foundry symbolic testing: started to make progress towards symbolic/concolic execution, forge test --symbolic.

Ape Framework

• Ape Sourcify (plugin): automatically verifies Solidity + Vyper contracts, fetches verified sources/ABIs without API keys, and installs them as Ape dependencies by chain + address (ape plugins install sourcify).

Standardisation Tooling

Sourcify

• Sourcify roadmap update, Q1/2 review & Q3/4 focus.
• 42+ million contracts verified, including 7+ million on mainnet.
• Sourcify v1 API retired July 7, following scheduled brownouts; full migration to the v2 API completed.

Ethereum Layer 1

• Ethereum celebrated 11 years since genesis.
• Vitalik: updated Strawmap explainer (strawman L1 roadmap).
• Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Ethereum environmental footprint.

Glamsterdam upgrade (target H2 2026)

• Headliners:
  • Consensus layer: EIP-7732 ePBS.
  • Execution layer: EIP-7928 Block-level Access Lists.
• 19 EIPs Scheduled for Inclusion (SFI).
• glamsterdam-devnet-7: launched with remaining EIPs
• Platåberget: short lived permissionless public testnet, targeting early August.
• Public testnets: targeting upgrading first testnet in September.
• 🐻‍❄️ Polar bear selected as Glamsterdam mascot.

Hegotá upgrade (target 2027)

• Headliner: EIP-7805 FOCIL (Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists).
• Native account abstraction (via EIP-8141 Frame transaction) Considered for Inclusion (CFI).
• 36+ non-headliner EIPs Proposed for Inclusion (PFI).

Ethereum Foundation

• Ben Edgington: fast finality stakeholder research.
• EF Global Policy Strategy team: Ethereum basics for governments & institutions, non-technical primer.
• EF Board update: pcaversaccio (SEAL 911 co-founder & lead) joined the board for initial one-year voluntary term.
• EF Protocol Security team running AI agents on protocol code.
• EF Protocol Support team dissolved.
• Devcon 8 (Mumbai, India, November 3-6):
  • Devcon tickets.
  • Devcon community hub applications close August 12.

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