Most transactions have an event log, but those event logs can be hard to read. — Preface: If you haven’t read my article on the Ethereum Virtual Machine, it may be helpful to do so first, as I’m going to skip the basics and dive right in. In the traditional world, applications often use logs to capture and describe what’s going on at a specific moment…

A technical summary of the upcoming changes that will be introduced with the Istanbul hard fork on block 9,069,000. — Opcodes Two new opcodes will be added to the EVM in Istanbul. If you’re not sure what an opcode is, check out my previous article explaining the Ethereum Virtual Machine. The new CHAINID opcode introduced at 0x46 pushes the 256-bit value of the current chain ID to the stack. It pops…

Diving into Ethereum’s decentralized ecosystem for building — If you’ve tried developing a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain, or have been in the space for a while, you might have come across the term “EVM”, short for Ethereum Virtual Machine. Virtual machines are essentially creating a level of abstraction between the executing code and the executing machine…