Aadmininswiftnodes.hashnode.dev·9h ago · 5 min readBerachain RPC: Standard EVM, but the Token You Earn Can't Be TransferredBerachain is one of the rare chains where the RPC is completely ordinary and the economics are the thing you have to understand. It's an EVM-identical Layer 1 (chain ID 80094) — your Solidity, ABIs, v00
Aadmininswiftnodes.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 6 min readDecoding Event Logs: Topics, Signatures, and Indexed ParametersYou've fetched some logs — maybe with eth_getLogs, maybe from an eth_subscribe stream, maybe out of a transaction receipt. What you get back isn't a friendly Transfer(from, to, value) object. It's thi00
Aadmininswiftnodes.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 5 min readSonic RPC: What Fantom Became — New Chain ID, Sub-Second FinalityIf you built on Fantom, Sonic is where that chain went. Sonic is the rebranded, re-engineered successor to Fantom Opera — a high-performance EVM Layer 1 launched in late 2024 with a new execution engi00
Aadmininswiftnodes.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 7 min readWhat Is Account Abstraction? ERC-4337 vs Native AA, Explained"Account abstraction" (AA) is one of those terms that's everywhere and rarely defined cleanly. Strip away the jargon and it's a simple idea: let a smart contract, rather than a fixed private key, deci00
Aadmininswiftnodes.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 6 min readPolkadot RPC: JSON-RPC, but a Whole Different Ecosystem From EthereumIf you come from Ethereum, Polkadot's RPC will look familiar for about ten seconds. It's JSON-RPC over HTTP, you POST a {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":...} body, you get a result back. Then you try eth_blo00
TOTapbit Officialintapbitofficial.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 8 min readEthereum Proof of Stake Explained: Validators, Slots, Epochs, Finality, and IssuanceEthereum's move to proof of stake is often summarized in one sentence: miners were replaced by validators. That is true, but it is incomplete. The Merge changed how Ethereum reaches consensus, how blo00
Aadmininswiftnodes.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 5 min readManta Pacific RPC: An OP Stack L2 Whose Data Doesn't Live on EthereumMost rollups we've covered post their transaction data to Ethereum — that's what makes them rollups, and it's a big part of their cost. Manta Pacific makes a different choice: it's an OP Stack L2, EVM00
SSShakeel Sklinblog.solvebar.com·6d ago · 2 min readABI Decoder/Encoder: Read Any Calldata, Build Any Function Call, Right in Your BrowserEvery contract call boils down to a hex string. This tool turns that hex string back into something you can actually read — and back again. Paste any calldata — a transfer, an approve, a DEX swap — an00
Aadmininswiftnodes.hashnode.dev·Aug 2 · 5 min readMetis RPC: The Optimistic Rollup That Decentralized Its SequencerAlmost every L2 has the same quiet centralization: one sequencer, run by the team, ordering every transaction. It's fast and it usually works — but it's a single operator that could censor, reorder, o00
AMA.S Myrosinblazephoenix.hashnode.dev·Aug 1 · 8 min readAnatomy of an Honest DEX Aggregator: How BlazePhoenix Eliminated Simulation Drift and Phantom Liquidity in EVM Bytecodetags: solidity, web3, ethereum, smart-contracts, architecture canonical: https://blazephoenix.xyz/architecture Across the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem on Layer 2 networks (such as Base, Arbi00
