Proxies and Upgradability - Minimal Proxy (EIP-1167) (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Examine how a minimal proxy reuses an implementation through delegation.
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Begin with the original three-part series, then explore individual mechanisms in the archive below.
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- Part 1What Every Blockchain Developer Should Know About EVM Internals— Part 1. (opens on Substack in a new tab)
What is the EVM actually executing? Start with gas, bytecode, and the places a contract keeps its data.
- Part 2What Every Blockchain Developer Should Know About EVM Internals – Part 2 (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Continue the original EVM internals series with a closer look at contract execution.
- Part 3What Every Blockchain Developer Should Know About EVM Internals — Part 3 (opens on Substack in a new tab)
The third part of the original EVM internals series, continuing below Solidity’s abstractions.
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Factories - How Smart Contracts Deploy Other Contracts (opens on Substack in a new tab)
What changes when the thing deploying a smart contract is another smart contract?
November 2025Article resourcesProxies and Upgradability - UUPS proxy (EIP-1822) (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Follow the upgrade mechanism when the implementation holds the upgrade logic.
November 2025Article resourcesProxies and Upgradability - Transparent Proxy (EIP-1967) (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Explore how a transparent proxy separates administrative operations from user calls.
November 2025Article resourcesDeployments & Deterministic Addresses (CREATE vs CREATE2) (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Compare how CREATE and CREATE2 determine the address of a new contract.
November 2025Article resourcesBatching Calls Efficiently with Multicall and RPC batch (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Compare batching at the contract level with batching requests to an RPC endpoint.
November 2025Article resourcesCatching ETH (Native) Transfers Without Events (opens on Substack in a new tab)
How do you observe native ETH transfers when there is no token Transfer event?
November 2025Article resourcesStreaming On-Chain Activity in Real Time (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Explore the mechanics of following on-chain activity as it happens.
November 2025Article resourcesUnderstanding Events - The EVM's Built-In Log System (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Look beneath Solidity events at the EVM’s logs and topics.
November 2025Article resourceseth_call vs debug_traceCall: How to Simulate, Trace, and Debug Ethereum Transactions (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Compare a simulated call’s result with a trace of the execution behind it.
November 2025Article resourcesWhat's Behind Your RPC: Node Types, Clients, and Why It Matters (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Understand the node and client behind an endpoint, and why that affects your queries.
November 2025Article resourcesEVM Message — SignTypedData EIP-712 Secure Off-Chain Signatures for Real-World Ethereum Apps Explained (opens on Substack in a new tab)
Explore structured off-chain signing and the information an EIP-712 signature commits to.
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