Hardhat is an open-source Ethereum development environment that covers compiling, deploying, testing, debugging, and interacting with smart contracts, built by Nomic Foundation. Hardhat's Twitter Score is 63 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #13,510 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Hardhat began as a side project in 2018 under the name Buidler, and was rebranded to its current name in October 2020. The Ethereum Foundation previously supported the project through its Ecosystem Support Program, recognizing Buidler's contributions to extending smart-contract development tooling. In 2022, Nomic Labs transitioned into the nonprofit Nomic Foundation, which took over stewardship of Hardhat and its related open-engineering projects.
Hardhat reached a significant milestone when Hardhat 3 became stable on June 1, 2026, having shipped as a beta in August 2025. The release introduced first-class Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime through EDR, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition deployments. It also supports fuzzing, code coverage, contract verification, and simulation of OP Stack and Base environments through a composable plugin ecosystem. Hardhat 2 is scheduled to reach end of life upon Ethereum mainnet's Hegota activation or June 1, 2027, whichever comes first, with users directed to migrate to Hardhat 3.
Hardhat is backed by Nomic Foundation, which announced in 2022 that it had secured $15M in donations from contributors including the Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik Buterin, Coinbase, Consensys, The Graph, Polygon, Chainlink, Gnosis, Andreessen Horowitz, a_capital, and Kaszek Ventures. Hardhat has accumulated 12,679 followers as of August 2026 and 290 posts on the platform. Hardhat has been mentioned by 195 accounts, with 409 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Hardhat include 294 founders, 70 angel investors, 69 influencers and 1 VCs. Among them are Georgios Konstantopoulos, Foobar, Sandeep, Tay, John Wang and Banteg.