Phillip Ho - thirdweb

Phillip Ho

Engine - AA account salt, new API reference, retry errors, + bugfixes

Engine - AA account salt, new API reference, retry errors, + bugfixes

Engine has been updated to v2.0.25 which brings a handful of improvements. Account salt: make AA calls before deploying the contract First what is an account salt? The account salt is a unique ID that deterministically predicts a wallet address for a given admin + smart account factory. This

Engine - Setting Max Gas + Timeouts

Engine - Setting Max Gas + Timeouts

Engine v2.0.19 improves handling of maximum gas fee overrides and introduces timeouts. * Smarter max gas fees: When the gas prices are high and your backend specifies a maximum gas fee, Engine delays the transaction until prices fall below your override. * Timeouts: Engine will drop your transaction if it

Engine updates - instant version updates, improved API validation, withdraws + more

Engine updates - instant version updates, improved API validation, withdraws + more

Engine has been updated to v2.0.18. Here are some notable changes in the past few versions: Version updates are now instant! For cloud-hosted Engine customers, the primary account* for an Engine can trigger an version update from the dashboard UI. ⚠️ We recommend pausing critical traffic during this time

Engine - Introducing Alert Notifications

Engine - Introducing Alert Notifications

All cloud-hosted Engine instances (running v2.0.10 or later) can now configure alert notifications to be notified when an issue is detected on your Engine instance. Add an alert 1. Navigate to the new Alerts tab on the Engine dashboard. 2. Select Create Alert. 1. If the button is

Engine v2 is now available

Engine v2 is now available

All new Engine deployments from the thirdweb dashboard will be on v2. For existing cloud-hosted Engines, please request a version upgrade in the dashboard. (We're making upgrades self-service very soon!) What's new? The worker architecture in Engine v2 was redesigned with maximum onchain throughput in mind.

Blockchain Tools: Transaction Simulator

Blockchain Tools: Transaction Simulator

We’ve added an EOA Transaction Simulator to thirdweb’s collection of free tools! Provide details about the sender wallet and the contract method to call, and see the precise error that would be returned by the contract call. Successfully simulated calls also return the estimated gas settings for the

Blockchain Tools: Wei Converters, Hex Converters, and more

thirdweb now offers a collection of free tools that web3 developers (including the thirdweb team!) use daily. * Wei Converter: Convert between wei, gwei, and ether numeric values. These units are commonly used to represent precise currency amounts, gas and transaction fees, and human-readable currency amounts. * Hex Converter: Convert between hexadecimal

Sending more than one transaction at a time is easy, right?

This blog post explores the challenges of building a backend that writes to the blockchain at scale and the need for multiple safeguards we built into thirdweb Engine. nonce has already been used We’ve all made the same mistake. We built an API to mint an NFT from our

Cloud-hosted Engine deployments now self-serve

Get up and running with a cloud-hosted Engine instance with one click in < 20 minutes. Starting today, requesting a cloud-hosted Engine now deploys infrastructure immediately upon payment ($99/month subscription). And stay tuned for an exciting infrastructure update next week... What is Engine? thirdweb Engine is an open-source server

Short-lived access tokens now supported with Engine

This feature allows your application to use any cryptographic private key to generate access tokens that Engine accepts for a limited duration. No long-lived credentials are transmitted over public internet to minimize the impact of a compromised access token. This feature is introduced in v0.0.36. Existing (long-lived) access

Prevent duplicate blockchain transactions with Engine

Engine now supports idempotency keys for write transactions. Many of you have asked for Engine to prevent duplicate transactions when retrying requests. This feature prevents costly and irreversible errors like transferring funds or minting NFTs more than once. If an x-idempotency-key header is provided, Engine only submits the transaction if

Engine v0.0.26 - Improved error messages, gas spike reliability, throughput + more

thirdweb Engine is an open-source server for your web3 app to read, write, and deploy contracts to the blockchain. The team is working hard to continuously improve stability and developer experience. Summary * Clear error messages for onchain failures * Improved reliability during gas spikes * Higher read/write throughput * Updated dashboard timeline

Engine improvements: relayers, transaction details, backend wallet funds

Here's a few new ways managing Engine in the thirdweb dashboard got better! Enable gasless transactions with relayers Engine recently added support for backend wallets to send meta-transactions on behalf of your users. This feature allows your app to sponsor gas for your users to transfer NFTs, list

Engine updates: dashboard, cloud-hosted, TypeScript

We recently announced Engine, a backend HTTP server that calls smart contracts with your backend wallets. Engine is open-source and makes it simple to interact with the blockchain securely, reliably, and at scale. We shipped dozens of bugfixes and features since then. Here are some highlights: Dashboard improvements * Engine instances

IPFS unpinning now available

You can now unpin your account's pinned files from the thirdweb dashboard: 1. Sign in to the thirdweb dashboard and navigate to the Storage dashboard page. 2. Under Your Pinned Files, files pinned by your account are listed. 3. Select Unpin to unpin a file from your account.