Blockchain safety tech agency BlockSec has launched a brand new toolkit that allows collaborative testing on private chains “forked from arbitrary (transaction) positions” and block numbers on the Ethereum mainnet.
The developer and safety researcher-focused toolkit is dubbed the “Phalcon Fork” and launched on April 14.
We’re thrilled to introduce Phalcon Fork, a cutting-edge toolkit for Web3 builders & safety researchers! It permits collaborative testing with private mainnet states, creating private chains forked from any mainnet place. #Web3 #DeFi pic.twitter.com/TlK169GeLP
— BlockSec (@BlockSecTeam) April 14, 2023
Phalcon Fork goals to offer larger management over work being carried out on testnets, equivalent to transaction testing, evaluation and debugging.
In the consumer guide, BlockSec touts that this additional management comes from with the ability to simply “fork arbitrary (transaction) positions and block numbers,” and retain sure “services and states” from the Ethereum mainnet.
“Compared with traditional solutions like Goerli […], Phalcon Fork has the following advantages: retain services and states from the mainnet, facilitating rapid integration and debugging with other DeFi contracts. [And maintain] full control over block information (e.g., Timestamp, BaseFee, MixDigest),” the Phalcon Fork consumer guide reads.
With the toolkit, customers may make the most of options equivalent to snapshots, enabling them to avoid wasting sure blockchain positions and revert again to them at will throughout their testing processes. The snapshots basically file the transactions being executed and deployed by the consumer at a given time.
“The snapshot feature is particularly useful in the following two scenarios: When a user wants to run multiple times of a testing script, he/she just needs to revert to the original snapshot and rerun the script. [Or] When a user wants to save some states and return to them later, he/she can create a snapshot and then revert to this snapshot later,” the guide reads.
Phalcon Fork additionally has an built-in faucet so customers can purchase free fork community Ether (ETH) to conduct transactions on the private chains.
To instantly work together with the chains and execute transactions, Phalcon Fork gives a distant process name node known as Fork RPC, which may be built-in with Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible improvement frameworks equivalent to Hardhat, Foundry and Remix or added to MetaMask.
As it stands, customers can solely fork from the Ethereum mainnet; nonetheless, future help for further blockchains, such because the BNB Smart Chain and Arbitrum, has been teased.
April has been a major month for Ethereum builders, on condition that the extremely anticipated Shapella laborious fork went dwell on the Ethereum mainnet and not using a hitch on April 12. A serious characteristic of the improve permits Ethereum validators to withdraw staked ETH from the Beacon Chain.
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The transfer has been met with optimistic worth motion from Ether (ETH), with the asset gaining roughly 12% since April 12, to sit down at $2,092 on the time of writing.
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