The Truffle Suite is the most widely used development framework for Solidity development but it is not perfect. We at Polymath, deal with a large set of smart contracts. The sheer number of smart contracts cause the compilation time to go over 80 seconds on my daily driver. Lucky for us, we can make the compilation go faster. …
Compile Solidity Smart Contracts Faster in Truffle Projects Read More »
Smart contracts have evolved into being more than just basic contracts. Now we have whole ecosystems powered by Smart Contracts! No matter how careful we are or how well tested our code is, if we are creating a complex system, there is a good chance that we will need to update the logic to patch …
Blockchain offers an innovative solution for introducing trust in a trustless environment. Blockchains and the features they bring have innumerable applications, but most of them cannot be implemented in the current generation of blockchains due to the scalability issues. To compare with real numbers, VISA processes about 2000 transactions per second while ethereum can only …
Debugging solidity smart contracts is a pain and takes a lot of time. I made a small user script which decodes the calldata to function names from the Etherscan trace for Kovan testnet. It comes handy when you need to debug some transactions real quick. You’ll get to know which function was the culprit, and …
[Tools] Ethereum debugging helper and Solidity boilerplate Read More »
Coding in solidity is a little different than other languages as every action you do cost real gas. Here are some tips and tricks to help you keep your gas cost low. 1) Pack your variables! In ethereum, you pay gas for every storage slot you use. A slot is of 256 bits, and you …