Dev Tools Guild September update
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TL;DR: Fusaka upgrade on testnets in October, ENS DAO granted $75k to Argot, Aerodrome donated $450k between various teams, Optimism's Retro Funding continues to support member projects.
Dev Tools Guild members
- ENS DAO public goods working group granted $75k to Argot Collective (includes Solidity and Sourcify).
- Aerodrome donated $450k between 7 teams, including Vyper, Viem and Ape Framework.
- Optimism's Retro Funding: Dev Tooling continues to support Solidity, Vyper, alloy, ethers.js, Nethereum, viem, web3.py, Ape Framework, Foundry, Scaffold-ETH and Sourcify.
Smart Contract Languages
Solidity
- Solidity 2025 roadmap update.
- IEEE 2025 top programming languages includes Solidity.
Vyper
- Vyper team completed all milestones for their Arbitrum $50k grant. Funding went towards raw_return decorator & raw_create builtin for low level control of proxy patterns and a non-reentrancy pragma.
Client Libraries
alloy
viem
Web3j
- web3j v5.0.1.
Frameworks and Dev Environments
Foundry
Standardisation Tooling
Sourcify
- Sourcify 2025 roadmap update.
- Sourcify dataset playground: AI assisted query generation for use with Sourcify dataset in BigQuery.
- Foundry updated to use Sourcify APIv2.
Ethereum Layer 1
Fusaka upgrade (target Q4 2025)
- Headliner: L2 scaling via EIP7594 PeerDAS and EIP7892 Blob parameter only upgrades.
- Fusaka upgrade testnet schedule:
- Holešky: October 1, 8:48 UTC (Slot: 5,283,840).
- Sepolia: October 14, 7:36 UTC (Slot: 8,724,480).
- Hoodi: October 28, 18:53 UTC (Slot: 1,622,016).
- Blob Parameter Only (BPO) upgrades (increase blobs per block target and maximum parameters):
- BPO1: 10/15 (target/max blobs per block) (~1 week after Fusaka on testnets).
- BPO2: 14/21 (target/max blobs per block) (~1 week after BPO1 on testnets).
- Fusaka audit contest with up to $2M in rewards.
- mainnet upgrade: December (at the earliest, if testing goes well).
Glamsterdam upgrade (target 2026)
- Headliners:
- Consensus layer: EIP7732 ePBS.
- Execution layer: EIP7928 Block-level Access Lists.
- Non-headliners:
- EIPs are being proposed for inclusion (23 so far), with client teams specifying which EIPs they want more info on.
- Rank non-headliner EIPs on Forkcast and share on socials to signal your priorities.
- Deadline for proposals is Fusaka mainnet releases (~November).
H-star + Bogotá upgrade
- H-star name needed, signal your favourite in the poll.
Holešky testnet
- Holešky will be deprecated after upgrading to Fusaka and BPO1 & BPO2.
Protocol calls
- Protocol calls (All Core Devs Execution/Consensus/Test) available on Forkcast with recording, transcript, chat log and (experimental) AI generated summary.
- Ansgar Dietrichs chairing All Core Devs Execution until the end of the year.
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