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Announcing slang-solx: a Solidity compiler that's up to 5× faster

Announcing slang-solx: a Solidity compiler that's up to 5× faster

Ethereum development needs to be faster. Today we're releasing hardhat-slang-solx, a Hardhat plugin that swaps in Nomic Foundation’s new Solidity compiler backend: slang-solx. Across our benchmark suite it compiles roughly 1.7x faster than solc in legacy mode and roughly 5x faster than solc

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

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

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 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…

Increased mining flexibility in Hardhat Network

Increased mining flexibility in Hardhat Network

A realistic network for more elaborate scenarios and better dapp testing

Turning a page in Ethereum JavaScript history

Turning a page in Ethereum JavaScript history

Farewell, node-gyp