Web3j Six Month Challenge Replace

November 2024 – April 2025

This report summarizes the actions and accomplishments of Web3j, an LF Decentralized Belief mission, from November 2024 to April 2025. Throughout this era, the mission made important strides in bettering the framework’s performance, enhancing consumer engagement, and bolstering total neighborhood interplay. 

Key highlights embrace profitable library upgrades, a noteworthy LF Decentralized Belief mentorship initiative, and demanding integrations that elevate Web3j’s capabilities and compatibility. This doc outlines the achievements towards beforehand set targets and gives an outline of further developments that enrich the Web3j ecosystem.

The present mission roadmap is public and could be discovered right here.

Targets Achieved

Over the last six months, the mission has achieved the next targets:

Improve web3j-android department to the most recent model and launch libraries as Android artifacts – this was accomplished throughout the 2024 mentorship below Hyperledger Basis:Organized the First Web3J Hyperledger Ecosystem Summit – an occasion at which we related with the enterprise customers of Web3j and picked up suggestions:Join with the neighborhood by means of numerous occasions:Solved bugs and closed a part of the open points: Closed 15 open points throughout all Web3j repositories;Applied, reviewed, and merged over 20 Pull requests within the Web3j repositories that mounted completely different bugs or improved the functionalities, similar to:Repair ENS CCIP, ERC-3668Fix construct scripts on web3j-androidFix Web3j Transaction logic to return the anticipated chainId when interacting with Solidity 0.8.26 or 0.8.27 Clear subscription after EVM websocket disconnectsCatch all of the exception throughout EVM response parsingImprove codebase by fixing Sonar reported issuesExtended ENS integration assist (particulars on this weblog submit):Added assist for HoleskySet Major Title functionalityManage ENS file metadataManage ENS Service metadataRefactor the off-chain fuel supplier contained in the library to work dynamically: Web3j libraries by migration to Java 21, Kotlin 2.1.0 and integration with a more moderen model of the EVM consumer, Besu:Prague/Electra Improve:EIP-7702 assist: https://github.com/LFDT-web3j/web3j/pull/2178

Different Accomplishments

Besides the targets talked about above we managed to realize different accomplishments additionally for Web3j mission:

Eliminated “Hyperledger” from the mission identify to streamline the Web3j model below LF Decentralized TrustSubmitted and acquired approval for 2 Web3j mentorship applications, which is able to happen in 2025, below Linux Basis Decentralized Belief Membership Program:LFDT – Web3j Libraries Full Improvement Lifecycle – This mission goals to boost the core Web3j by bettering and bringing updated its element libraries as web3j-unit, web3j-evm, web3j-openapi, specializing in lowering current points and integrating the lacking EIPs. By bettering the extra Web3j libraries, we intention to streamline growth workflows, improve testability, and create a extra sturdy framework that simplifies Ethereum growth for Java and JVM-based tasks.LFDT – Web3j: Enhancing JVM Android Help with Kotlin Wrappers for Solidity Good Contracts – This mission proposes to construct upon the accomplishments of the prior mentorship by additional enhancing and increasing the functionalities of the Web3j-Android library. Given Kotlin’s prominence as the popular programming language for Android growth, this initiative goals particularly to facilitate the technology of Kotlin-based good contract wrappers.Added assist for Solidity variations 0.8.27, 0.8.28, 0.8.29 in web3j compiler (web3j-sokt) for processing new Solidity Good ContractsFixed exterior imports of the Solidity Good Contracts  for the ensuing Java Wrappers with a purpose to handle advanced good contracts that are utilizing completely different libraries throughout the web3j: the Java Wrapper good contract technology for recordsdata which have duplicate occasion names: RPC assist for Linea networks: assist for Solidity Customized Error Kind: three variations for the library throughout this era:

The previous six months have marked appreciable progress for the Web3j mission. The profitable completion of main updates, together with the numerous improve to web3j-android and improved ENS integration, exemplifies the group’s dedication to steady enchancment and innovation. 

Moreover, proactive neighborhood engagement, highlighted by the primary Web3j Hyperledger Ecosystem Summit and frequent contributor interactions, has fostered a extra vibrant and collaborative atmosphere. Trying ahead, permitted mentorship applications and ongoing enhancements underscore a promising trajectory for Web3j, guaranteeing it stays a strong, versatile software for Ethereum and good contract builders.