Hey devs,
Lately I’ve been jumping between Ethereum, Solana, and a few L2s, and honestly… I’m starting to feel the fatigue. Every chain has its own dev tooling quirks, deployment flows, and community norms. One week I’m writing Solidity for an EVM chain, the next I’m trying to wrap my head around Rust and Anchor again 😅
Don’t get me wrong — the innovation is awesome, and I love how fast things are moving. But at the same time, I feel like half of my dev time goes into relearning how to build the same thing on a different stack.
So I figured I’d ask:
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How do you all stay sane (and productive) while working cross-chain?
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Any tools, SDKs, or frameworks you swear by for simplifying multi-chain dev?
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Are you focusing on one ecosystem, or still experimenting across the board?
Also — bonus question: has anyone actually built something useful with account abstraction or zk tech yet? I keep seeing the buzz but wondering how far along we really are in terms of dev usability.
Would love to hear what others are building or struggling with. Let’s trade pain points and pro tips. 😅🧑💻
Hey, totally feel you on this.
I’ve been juggling between EVM (mostly Ethereum + Arbitrum), and recently dipped my toes into Solana again after a long break — and yeah, the context switching is brutal. It’s not just the languages (Solidity vs Rust), but the whole mindset shift: Solana’s parallel execution model throws me off every time after coming from gas-optimized EVM land 😅
One thing that’s helped me a bit: I’ve started treating each ecosystem like its own "domain" and assigning days of the week to focus on one. Monday = EVM, Tuesday = Solana, etc. That way I'm not constantly reloading dev muscle memory.
For multi-chain tooling, a few things I’ve found useful:
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Wagmi + Viem (for EVM frontends, obviously)
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UseDApp and RainbowKit for wallet onboarding
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LayerZero is promising for messaging, but debugging is still rough
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Thirdweb is decent if you just want to prototype across chains fast (though abstracted a bit too much sometimes)
As for account abstraction — I played with ERC-4337 and Safe modules, but TBH the infra still feels early. Great for UX experiments, but you really have to roll up your sleeves to get something production-ready. ZK is even trickier — I’ve only done toy projects with circom/snarkjs, and the tooling isn't quite “plug and play” unless you’re super deep into it.
Right now I’m leaning toward focusing on EVM for core builds and only branching out when there's a compelling reason (e.g., Solana for speed or low fees).
Would love to see better cross-chain abstractions that don’t feel like you’re duct-taping ecosystems together.
Keen to hear what others are doing too. 🙌
