Hardhat 3 Preview: Overhauled & Rust-Powered by Patricio Palladino | Devcon SEA

Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

The Hardhat team has been working continuously over the past two years to redesign and rewrite Hardhat from the ground up, including a major migration to Rust. This talk will explore the problems and solutions that the upcoming release of Hardhat 3 will focus on: performance, Solidity tests, correct L2 network simulation, and a comprehensive deployment system. Speaker(s): Patricio Palladino Skill level: Intermediate Track: Developer Experience Keywords: Developer Infrastructure, Tooling, DevEx, solidity Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/