03/20/26

Announcements

The new Chair and Vice-Chair of the LFDT Technical Advisory Council have written a blog post discussing their thoughts on where the community is going in 2026, what their priorities are for the year and what challenges and opportunities they see ahead. Take a look to get insight into the thoughts of these technical leaders in the community.

Code & Projects

Web3j maintainers have written about the new 5.0.2 release of their modular library for smart contracts and integrating with clients on the Ethereum network. This release includes improvements across the core library and its surrounding tooling from transaction encoding fixes to Gradle 9 compatibility and new protocol support. Most importantly, they’ve welcomed new contributors who are now part of the Web3j journey.

Noteworthy Pull Requests

Articles, Training & Tutorials:

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Events

You can find more project calls and other events listed on the community calendar.

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