OpenZeppelin Contracts 5.1 Release Candidate is now available for public testing 🧪 5.1 leverages transient storage, expands utilities, and introduces new cryptographic primitives and data structures. Bug bounty rewards increase by 50% during the RC phase 💸

super excited about this release! some highlights: - cryptography primitives: P256, RSA ✍️ - data structures: Heap, CircularBuffer, MerkleTree 🏗️ - utilities: ReentrancyGuardTransient, Packing, StorageSlot 🧰 github.com/OpenZeppelin/o… 👇

Introducing Solar ☀️ Solar is an implementation of the Solidity compiler, in Rust; licensed Apache/MIT. Solar is built for the future of smart contracts, in a world where developers seek customization, and assume great performance, safety, and developer experience.

Introducing SOLO: a protocol that lets anyone run an Ethereum validator with just 1.25 ETH instead of 32 ETH. It enables an LST backed by the portion of a validator's stake unlikely to be lost, without relying on governance or trusted hardware. Here's how it works 👇

ETHEREUM ACCELERATION . With Matt Huang, Dan Robinson & Charlie.

Vyper's experimental codegen (venom) performs much better at SP1 proving than Solidity with EOF! Shows how much it can be extracted/improved at the compiler level without massive changes to the EVM