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Speaker(s): Franco Zeoli
Skill level: Beginner
Track: Developer Infrastructure
Keywords: developer experience,hardhat,nomic
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A
A
A
Basically,
build
developer
infrastructure
and
developer
tooling
to
improve
ethereum
developer
experience.
That
means
we're
working
for
ethereum,
we're
dedicated
to
ethereum
and
I'm,
trying
to
empower
developers
to
decentralize
the
world
so
we're
best
known
for
building
hard
hat
hard
hat
is
the
living
developer
tool,
ethereum
ecosystem
Beyond
developers
use
it
to
build
tasks
on
debugger
software,
there's
a
whole
ecosystem
of
communities
blinds
and
nice
things
going
on
there,
but
within
always
do
this
and
I'll
share
a
bit
of
the
story
of
how
we
go
here.
A
A
We
were
Founders
trying
to
find
what
we
actually
wanted
to
to
work
on
and
all
these
were
just
our
way
of
paying
the
bills,
but
we
needed
to
be
more
effective,
so
we
create
a
Visa
which
then
in
2020
became
high
hat,
because
that
was
an
awful
name
and
you
know
it
was
for
internal
use.
We
open
sourced
it
some
of
our
friends
likes
it.
A
People
started
using
it,
we
so
a
need
for
it
and
we
applied
for
a
grant
from
the
ethereum
foundation
which
they
gave
to
us,
and
you
know
we
spent
the
rest
of
the
year
continuing
our
exploration
for
what
we
wanted
to
do.
While
you
know
working
on
this
side
on
on
beadler
to
deliver
on
the
roadmap
that
we
set
out
for
the
grant,
but
you
know
by
2019,
we
realized
that
something
you
needed
to
change.
A
There
were
big
missing
things
and
we
knew
that
if
we
just
built
out
these
things
that
were
missing,
there
was
a
lot
of
value
that
we
could
add
to
a
lot
of
people,
and
you
know
we
were
just
thinking
about
the
level
of
productivity
that
people
were
dealing
with,
and
you
know
if
we
managed
to
improve
that
very
significantly.
It
was
very
interesting
to
think
what
it
could
mean
for
the
entire
theorem
ecosystem.
A
A
That's
where
our
relationship
with
the
ethereum
foundation
started-
and
you
know,
as
he
focused
microphone,
are
focused
on
building
I
went
out
to
get
some
more
money.
I
asked
absolutely
everyone
that
was
close
to
the
evm.
This
was
2018
the
year
where
Theon
killers
were
hot,
so
I
asked
everyone
for
money.
A
Almost
no
one
gave
us
money,
but
we
had
existing
relationship
with
ethereum
foundation,
so
to
do
a
second
position
on
going
there
and
through
that,
we
end
up
meeting
some
people
at
the
management
team
of
ethereum
foundation,
who
turn
out
we're
looking
for
ways
for
people
in
the
community
that
could
help
them
improve
their
experience
right.
They
knew
it
was
an
issue,
the
new
Improvement
and
what
they
found
in
US
was.
A
You
know,
a
team
that
had
a
working
product,
some
users,
a
diagnosis
of
the
situation,
a
concrete
plan,
and
we
were
looking
for
funding.
So
it
was
a
pretty
good
match.
We
started
collaborating
with
them.
They
give
us
another
small
Grant
to
implement
solid
these
tax
races
and,
as
part
of
the
this
same
collaboration
as
we
will
generally
help
them
improve
ethereum
right.
A
This
was
not
just
working
on
hard
hat,
but
how
do
we
make
ethereum
as
a
whole
better
and
when
they
are
putting
together
a
very
small
or
relatively
small
roadmap
of
projects
that
we
thought
were
very
high
priority
high
impact
that
could
be
delivered
quickly
and
would
make
a
meaningful
difference
in
a
short
amount
of
time?
We
worked
on
that.
A
It
was
great,
went
really
well,
we
hit
it
off
and
by
2020
you
know
the
relationship
took
another
step
and
we
became
what
EF
calls
delegated
domain
allocators,
which
is
EF
terminology
for
when
they
Empower
someone
in
the
community
to
allocate
EF
resources
to
improve
specific
domain
within
ethereum.
So
basically,
it's
also
finding
us
more
aggressively
and
allowing
us
to
allocate
more
funding.
We
started
giving
out
grants.
A
A
Where
you
know
we
worked,
we
put
together
a
new
package
with
all
of
the
cryptography
different
Primitives,
our
new
network,
with
every
single
team,
maintaining
all
of
the
different
components
across
the
stack
to
replace
them,
and
that
was
that
led
to
the
entire
thing
being
a
lot
more
reliable
and
have
less
friction.
There's
some
example
of
like
17
different
projects
that
we
worked
on
this
year,
but
just
to
give
an
idea
if
it
was
just
pure
ethereum
and
not
really
anything
related
to
to
our
hat
so
2020
hard
hat
really
takes
off.
A
A
People
were
very
happy
with
the
product,
and
you
know
we
learned
a
ton
no,
but
by
the
end
of
the
year
we
we
realized
a
whole
bunch
of
things.
These
are
I,
think
the
main
takeaways,
the
main
one
being
doing.
This
is
very
hard.
You
know
building
sophisticated
tooling
it's
for
ethereum,
specifically
in
its
current
state.
A
It's
super
chunishing
and
we
realize
that
the
next
10x,
so
you
know
doing
with
all
of
this
work
and
a
lot
of
other
things
that
went
on
that
year
in
the
ecosystem,
ethereum
devx
improves
hugely
and
we,
but
there's
still
a
lot
more.
That
can
be
done
and
we
realize
that
you
know
the
next
10x
is
not
going
to
come
from
our
hat.
It's
not
going
to
come
from
any
single
tool
out
there,
because
what
we
realize
is
that
you
know
a
great
great
development
platform
for
ethereum.
A
In
let's,
say
five
years
is
one
that
is
diverse.
You
know
today
the
ecosystem
is
very
focused
on
node.js
and
solidity,
but
that's
unlikely
to
remain
negates
for
for
a
long
time
and
in
software,
and
you
know
for
the
exact
same
problem.
There
are
a
variety
of
different
solutions
that
are
all
valid,
depending
on
personal
preference
on
circumstance
and
different
trade-offs
that
different
projects
have
so
she's
having
a
few
or
you
know
one
or
two
solutions
for
each
thing.
A
Usually
it's
not
the
case
in
larger
platforms,
so
we
know
that
what
we
need
is
not.
You
know
another
specific
feature:
it's
not
about
missing
functionality.
The
next
big
step
up,
it's
more
about
General
growth
and
more
availability
and
diversity
within
the
tool
within
the
ecosystem,
which
is
you
know
the
third
point,
so
we
knew
you
plan.
You
know
hard
hat
and
everything
else
that
we
worked
on
and
2020
worked
out,
but
that
was
a
very
you
know,
urgent
execution
of.
A
Oh
my
God.
This
needs
to
be
better,
let's
do
better,
but
then
we
we
needed
an
entirely
new
plan,
because
you
need
to
to
do
that
when
actually
that
many
in
one
year
we
we
covered
most
of
it
so
but
for
you
know,
2021
and
forward.
We
came
up
with
a
new
plan
that
we
proposed
at
ethereum
foundation
and
we
realized
basically
that
what
we
had
to
do
was
is
go
one
layer
below
hard
hat
and
rebuild
the
foundations
down
there.
A
You
know
the
things
that
weren't
there
that
we
would
have
loved
to
be
there
when
we
built
our
hat,
build
those
things
so
that
other
people
will
build
more
things
like
hard
hat,
truffle,
remix,
brownie
and
so
on.
So
that's
a
new
plan.
You
know
build
core
infrastructure
to
make
it
easier,
cheaper
and
certainly
better
to
build
new
developer
tools
like
Harahan
so
and
I'll
get
into
what
that
actually
means
in
a
bit.
A
But
you
know
by
2021
the
crypto
Market
I
was
you
know
in
in
the
advanced
stage
of
the
the
bull
market
and
the
whole
reason
why
we
were
doing
this
in
the
beginning,
as
entrepreneurs
were
trying
to
build,
a
business
was
well
to
build
a
business
right
like
the
whole,
even
the
relationship
with
the
AF
felt
like
I,
wouldn't
win,
because
we
would
get
to
build
our
product.
Build
relationships,
build
a
position
of
leadership,
build
a
brand
and
in
the
process,
help
them
improve
ethereum,
which
would
grow
the
pipe
for
everyone.
A
It
was
a
win-win,
but
it
was
initially.
We
saw
it
as
a
great
strategic
stepping
stone
towards
eventually
building
a
business
monetizing,
something
and
given
the
the
market
context
being
ideal
for
fundraising.
We
thought
that
if
we
were
actually
going
to
do
it
build
a
business
around
this
now
is
the
time
to
fundraise,
get
the
money
and
do
it.
A
You
know
we
had
spent
in
the
past
year
and
a
half
basically
being
part
of
ethereum
Team,
since
our
Monday
towards
the
AF
was
improve
ethereum,
you
know
they
deliver
value
to
ethereum
developers
and
even
hard
hat,
which
is
something
that
at
the
time
needed
to
happen.
You
know
it
was
the
right
vehicle
at
the
time
to
deliver
value
to
ethereum
developers,
but
end-to-end.
The
whole
thing
that
we
were
doing
was
trying
to
improve
ethereum,
and
this
was
an
amazing
experience.
A
Super
gratifying
super
challenging
simulating
and
we
didn't
want
to
let
go
of
that
and
simply
seal
ourselves
to
just
how
do
we
make
money
out
of
our
head,
which
would
have
been
a
much
smaller
scope
than
what
we
have
been
working
on
so
far?
Another
thing
is
that
developer
experience
we
think,
is
absolutely
core
crucial
and
critical
to
ethereum,
and
it's
also
very
hard.
You
know
there's
a
lot
of
attention
that
goes
to
the
work
being
done
on
the
protocol
layer
and
make
sense.
A
It's
amazing
work,
the
the
the
merge
has
been
an
insane
feat
of
engineering
and
without
taking
any
kind
of
credit
away
from
how
critical
all
of
that
work
is.
We
shouldn't
forget
that
all
of
that
work
is
there
to
support
what
YTM
offers.
You
know.
The
network
supports
the
value
proposition,
which
is
a
platform
to
build
decentralized
software.
A
So
if
we
have
the
most
amazing
scalable
Network
and
it's
decentralized,
but
when
you
actually
want
to
use
it
to
build
something
on
top,
it's
not
that
great,
then
that's
a
significant
issue
for
ethereum.
So
we
think
this
is
she's
a
really
valuable
contribution
that
we
can
make
to
to
the
brush
act.
And
then
you
know
the
the
entire
speed
of
innovation
in
the
ecosystem
and
its
growth
are
very
much
directly
affected
by
developer
productivity.
A
You
know
the
faster
your
developers
can
write
curve,
iterate,
debug,
test,
launch
and
repeat
you
know
the
faster
everything
will
improve.
The
more
users
will
be
captured
generally
by
improving
developer
experience.
We
inject
productivity
into
every
single
team
into
the
ecosystem,
which
has
a
super
powerful
compounding
effect
over
the
long
term
right
like
faster,
faster,
faster,
faster,
faster
and
then
the
last
one.
A
You
know
tell
me,
you're
from
a
developed
country
without
saying
you're
from
a
developed
country.
Crypto
has
no
use
cases.
You
know
like,
as
Arsen
design,
Founders
I
got
involved
with
crypto
in
2015,
usually
with
Bitcoin,
and
having
lived
our
entire
alarms
in
Argentina
and
struggle
and
experience
the
day-to-day
limitations
that
come
from
living
in
a
place
like
that,
even
in
2015.
A
It
was
really
obvious
that
this
thing
was
had
the
potential
to
meet
mean
something
very
meaningful
to
a
lot
of
people
and
which
is
very
big
Believers
in
what
these
can
change
and
mean
in
the
long
term,
for
people
who
live
in
countries
like
ours,
so
we
went
ahead
with
it
and
we
raised
22
million
dollars
in
donations
from
across
the
ecosystem,
with
the
ethereum
foundation
being
the
largest
donor.
But
we
have
a
bunch
of
amazing
organizations
and
individuals
donating
to
get
these
new
ethereum
non-profit
off
the
ground.
A
So
how
are
we
going
to
do
all
of
this?
How
are
we
actually
going
to
empower
developers
to
centralize
the
world?
You
know
I
mentioned
before
we
came
up
with
a
new
plan.
That
was
all
about
getting
the
entire
tooling
ecosystem
to
grow
more
and
because
become
more
diverse,
and
for
that
we're
basically
building
new
infrastructure
and
to
make
it
easy
to
do
that.
These
two
components,
slang
and
refnet-
are
actually
one
same
project
massive
project
with
two
very
large
components.
A
Slang
is
a
new
Solitary
compiler
that
we're
building
and
which
is
designed
from
the
ground
app
to
make
it
easier
to
build
available
tooling
for
solidity
right.
So
it
turns
out
that,
in
a
development
platform,
the
very
core
of
it
is
the
compiler
and
many
of
the
tools
that
we
use
rely
and
integrate
deeply
with
the
compiler.
So
you
know
we
actually
designed
the
compiler
to
for
that
purpose.
It's
going
it's.
It
can
be
a
lot
easier,
more
effective
than
it
is
today,
and
you
know
this
isn't
meant
to
replace
salty
and
Soul
C.
A
It's
you
know
compiles
and
you
deploy
to
mainnet,
and
this
compiler
is
not
going
to
be
for
that.
It's
going
to
be
used
during
the
development
process,
because
it's
main
you
know
the
target
audience
is
two
developers
and
what
we
care
about
is
basically
making
sure
that
there
are
great
insights
during
the
development
process,
not
when
you
need
to
deploy
it
and
by
not
aiming
for
a
Mana
deployment.
A
We're
actually
able
to
read
ourselves
with
a
lot
of
very
difficult
constraints
that
salsi
has
to
deal
with
and
make
those
constraints
make
many
of
the
things
that
we
want
to
do
basically
impossible
to
do
for
this
whole
city
team.
So
these
two
compilers
are
actually
going
to
be
complementary
and
and
we're
going
to
be
using
them
together.
A
They're
one
wrathnet:
it's
going
to
be
a
reusable
dividing
runtime,
also
to
build
tooling,
and
it
turns
out
that
high
hand
is
actually
a
pretty
complex
piece
of
software
and
with
completely
different
objectives
and
constraints.
It's
basically
an
ethereum
node.
You
know
it's
got
a
lot
of
the
very
same
components:
some
ample
and
evm
and
storage
consensus
component
and
an
entire
layer
of
debugging
features
on
top,
where
we
do
runtime
observation
to
figure
out.
What's
going
on
with
the
bytecode
execution
to
then
tell
Developers,
and
you
know
that's
one.
A
Basically,
every
tool
that
wants
to
provide
the
runtime
insights
to
developers
has
to
do
right.
What
we've
all
done:
truffle,
brownie
remix,
we've
all
built
the
same
thing,
which
requires
very
in-depth
knowledge
of
the
platform,
because
you
need
to
basically
build
an
ethereum
node
right
like
when
you
use
mainnet
forking
in
hard
hat.
It
pulls
data
from
maina
and
it
works
as
if
it's
maintenance,
it's
basically
I,
know
with
very
different
objectives.
A
So
if
someone
wants
to
build
a
new
tool,
instead
of
them
spending
six
months
figuring
this
out
putting
the
pieces
together
to
only
then
start
working
on
the
very
first
developer
feature,
we
can
just
build
a
thing
that
is
reusable.
That
is
extensible,
that
it's
very
modular
and
that
if
someone
wants
to
build
a
new
developer
tool,
they
can
use
as
a
starting
point,
and
it
will
be
a
lot
easier.
A
You
know
these
are
the
things
that
we
would
have
loved
to
have
when
we
built
our
hat
and
didn't
and
we
suffered
through
it,
and
we
don't
want
anyone
else
to
live
to
that
so
where's
hi-hat
in
all
of
this,
we
haven't
forgotten
about
her
hat.
Very
much
remains
a
very
core
priority
for
nomec,
and
you
know
the
the
SE
projects
are
all
about
the
long
term.
You
know
like
they
will
take
a
while
to
Drive
meaningful
impact,
as
they
are
dependent
on
other
people,
building
things
on
top.
A
That
then
end
users
use,
but
until
then
developers
still
have
needs
today
you
know
have
users
to
service
bugs
to
fix
and
hard
hat
remains.
Our
response
to
those
needs
that
developers
have
today
so
Hornet
is
growing,
so
we're
expanding
and
continuing
to
increase
our
investment
into
our
head
and
it's
expanding
into
a
suite
of
tools,
heart
health,
Runner
and
network
are
the
main
components
that
everyone's
been
using.
A
You
know
the
sea
lights
has
Runner,
which
is
basically
what
you
run
and
what
contains
the
the
config
system
and
the
plugin
architecture
and
all
of
the
extensibility
and
the
kind
of
starting
point
that
connects
everything
else.
That's
harder.
Runner,
then
Hardware
network
is
the
development
node,
and
we
recently
this
year
launched
our
vehicle
extension,
which
makes
solidity
editing,
feel
a
lot
more
modern
provides
basically
Advanced
solidity.
A
It's
going
to
be
this
infrastructure
as
code
deployments
tool
that
we're
hoping
will
change
the
game
of
deployments
and
then,
where
you're
going
to
sort
of
seeing
is
that
all
of
these
things
started
seeing
more
and
more
Integrations
across
them,
and
while
we're
trying
to
we're
trying
now
it's
an
objective
that
these
things
can
be
used
in
isolation,
including
in
combination
with
other
tools.
But
if
you
use
them
together,
cool
things
should
happen.
A
So
that's
basically
the
roll
map
where
12
people
were
ethereum
dedicated,
were
impact
driven
and
what
we
do
doesn't
run
after
Financial
metrics,
and
you
know
if
you
would
like
to
write
some
Rust
to
build
a
compiler
or
help
us
improve
hard
hat
to
you
know,
continue
empowering
the
ecosystem
to
keep
building
cool
stuff,
we're
hiring
that's
it.
Thank
you.