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Hardhat 3 is now stable

Hardhat 3 is now stable

Hardhat 3 shipped as a beta on August 2025, with a major overhaul: Solidity tests as first-class, multichain support, a performant Rust-powered runtime via EDR, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments. Hardhat is more than ready for production use for any kind of modern Solidity project. TypeScript

Meet the Nomic Team — Octavian Popescu, Software Engineer

Meet the Nomic Team — Octavian Popescu, Software Engineer

We're excited to be continuing our spotlight series on the team behind the Nomic Foundation. Meet Octavian Popescu — Software Engineer on our Ethereum Development Runtime (EDR) team at Nomic Foundation. What is your name, and what do you do at Nomic? Hey! I’m Octavian Popescu, and I’

Meet the Nomic Team — Sol Ara, Senior Technical Recruiter

Meet the Nomic Team — Sol Ara, Senior Technical Recruiter

We’re back with another spotlight on the incredible team behind the Nomic Foundation. Today, let us introduce you to Sol, our Senior Technical Recruiter, who is passionate about bringing great people and great teams together. What is your name, and what do you do at Nomic? I’m Sol,

Meet the Nomic Team — Omar Tawfik, Software Engineer on Slang

Meet the Nomic Team — Omar Tawfik, Software Engineer on Slang

Meet Omar Tawfik — the Slang team lead at Nomic Foundation, building the compiler infrastructure behind many of your favorite Solidity tools, and a 3D printing enthusiast known for crafting surprises for teammates. What is your name, and what do you do at Nomic? I’m Omar Tawfik, and I lead

Solidity vs. TypeScript tests: How to choose and combine in Hardhat 3

Solidity vs. TypeScript tests: How to choose and combine in Hardhat 3

Testing is central to Ethereum smart contract development, as bugs and vulnerabilities can lead to catastrophic losses. Most projects tests contracts either in TypeScript or Solidity. With Hardhat 3, you don’t have to choose between writing all your tests in Solidity or in TypeScript — both are first-class options, they

How to manage config values and secrets safely in Hardhat 3

How to manage config values and secrets safely in Hardhat 3

One of the many interesting features in the newly launched Hardhat 3 is the encrypted secrets keystore, which this guide will focus on. If you haven't looked it into it yet, Hardhat 3 is a complete overhaul of the product. We introduced Solidity tests, rewrote the performance critical

Slang v1: A reliable way to analyze Solidity code

Slang v1: A reliable way to analyze Solidity code

We're thrilled to share the stable release of Slang v1, after years of development and community feedback. Slang’s code analysis APIs are now production-ready and fully featured. What’s Slang? Slang is a modular set of compiler APIs to empower the next generation of Solidity code analysis

Rust-powered Hardhat: Present & Future

Rust-powered Hardhat: Present & Future

In March, we released Hardhat v2.21.0, the first version powered by our brand new Ethereum Development Runtime (EDR, for short) implemented in Rust. This was a significant change under the hood, representing the rewriting of Hardhat's largest and most complex component—its Ethereum simulation layer—in

How to write your own Solidity linter using Slang

How to write your own Solidity linter using Slang

… in 20 lines of code!

Secure deployments with Hardhat Ignition and Ledger hardware wallets

Hardhat Ignition

Secure deployments with Hardhat Ignition and Ledger hardware wallets

As you may know, we recently introduced Hardhat Ignition, a declarative system for deploying smart contracts on Ethereum, which aims to…

How to verify your deployment on Etherscan with Hardhat Ignition

Hardhat Ignition

How to verify your deployment on Etherscan with Hardhat Ignition

Step by step tutorial on how to verify source code from your Hardhat Ignition deployment on Etherscan

Migrating to Hardhat Ignition from hardhat-deploy

Hardhat Ignition

Migrating to Hardhat Ignition from hardhat-deploy

Migrating from hardhat-deploy to Hardhat Ignition For several years, the hardhat-deploy community plugin has been a go-to solution for deploying smart contracts within the Hardhat community. Recently, we introduced Hardhat Ignition, a declarative system for deploying smart contracts on Ethereum, which aims to pick up the torch fromhardhat-deployand expand Hardhat&

Meet the Nomic Team — Christopher Dedominici, Software Engineer on Hardhat

Meet the Nomic Team — Christopher Dedominici, Software Engineer on Hardhat

Meet Chris — a Software Engineer on the Hardhat team and an avid ice bather!

Meet the Nomic Team — Luis Schaab, Software Engineer on Hardhat

Meet the Nomic Team — Luis Schaab, Software Engineer on Hardhat

Today, we’re introducing you to Luis — a member of the Hardhat team and who played an instrumental role in the development of our latest…

Hardhat v2.19.0: Introducing Configuration Variables

Hardhat v2.19.0: Introducing Configuration Variables

Handling configuration settings is a common situation in Ethereum development, and it often involves sensitive information that could cause…

How to automate a headache-free deployment with Hardhat Ignition

Hardhat Ignition

How to automate a headache-free deployment with Hardhat Ignition

Hardhat Ignition is a declarative system for deploying smart contracts on Ethereum. It enables you to define smart contract instances you…

Meet the Nomic Team — Zoey Morgan, Software Engineer on Ignition

Meet the Nomic Team — Zoey Morgan, Software Engineer on Ignition

In light of Hardhat Ignition’s recent launch, we’d like to introduce you to Zoey, one of the engineers instrumental in bringing this…

Introducing Hardhat Ignition: A refreshed deployments experience

Hardhat Ignition

Introducing Hardhat Ignition: A refreshed deployments experience

Navigating the headaches of deployment execution is now a thing of the past

Hardhat + Viem

We’re happy to announce the newest addition to our official plugins — hardhat-viem. This plugin smoothly integrates the Viem library into…

Meet the Nomic Team — Manu Freire, Head of Legal & Finance

Meet the Nomic Team — Manu Freire, Head of Legal & Finance

We’re continuing to shed light on the talented individuals behind the Nomic Foundation. Today, let us introduce you to Manu, our Head of…

Meet the Nomic Team — Franco Victorio, Hardhat Tech Lead

Meet the Nomic Team — Franco Victorio, Hardhat Tech Lead

Welcome to the heart of Nomic Foundation — the People.

Slang alpha release

Slang alpha release

A syntax analysis API and unified grammar for all versions of Solidity. We are looking for feedback!

Hardhat 2.10.0: A refreshed experience

Hardhat 2.10.0: A refreshed experience

This release marks a change in the product direction that Hardhat has historically taken. Hardhat’s core values have always been…

Introducing the Nomic Foundation: An Ethereum public goods organization

Introducing the Nomic Foundation: An Ethereum public goods organization

Nomic Labs (creator of Hardhat) is becoming the Nomic Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to Ethereum’s developer platform, on…

Slang + EDR

Our long-term plan to unleash Ethereum’s developer experience potential.