Become a Hardcore Rust Ethereum Developer
Hyperliquid, Tempo, Base — the new wave of EVM chains is Rust-native. Keeping up means mastering the Rust Ethereum stack. RethLab walks you through the real Reth, Revm, Alloy, and Foundry source line by line, from "I know some Rust" to ready to extend, fork, and ship these chains' infrastructure.
// The real ADD opcode that runs on every Ethereum block
pub fn add<IT: ITy, H: ?Sized>(
context: Ictx<'_, H, IT>,
) -> Result {
popn_top!([op1], op2, context.interpreter);
*op2 = op1.wrapping_add(*op2);
Ok(())
}
// Walked through line-by-line in lesson:
// → reth-advanced / revm-interpreterEvery Advanced + Expert lesson is anchored on real source like this.
While you weren't watching, Ethereum went Rust-native
If you've been watching Solana eat the high-performance narrative, you're not wrong about the past few years. But the Rust EVM stack — Reth, Revm, Alloy, Foundry — quietly closed the gap. The chains, clients, and tools shipping in production today are Rust-native, and the engineers who can read their internals are scarce.
Rust took the EVM stack
Reth (Paradigm) is becoming the default execution client. Foundry runs on Revm. Alloy is the modern replacement for ethers-rs.
Production already moved
HyperEVM is a Reth fork. Tempo is built on Reth. Base ships Op-Reth. Steel runs Revm inside a zkVM. The Rust-EVM era is already shipping.
The talent gap is real
Solidity devs are oversupplied. Engineers who can extend Reth or write Revm precompiles are scarce — the infra hiring story that was on Solana now lives on Ethereum, in Rust.
You've already seen Reth, Revm, and Alloy in production
The chains and tools the Rust Ethereum stack already powers. Learn the internals, ship on any of them.
Hyperliquid (HyperEVM)
Reth forkHyperEVM, Hyperliquid's execution layer, is a Reth fork. Read Reth and you can read HyperEVM internals.
Tempo
Built on RethTempo, the new stablecoin-native L1, is built on Reth. Positioned as the rail for AI-native (agent-to-agent / M2M) payments — the chain for an economy that did not exist three years ago.
Base / OP Stack
Op-RethBase and the wider OP Stack ecosystem ship Op-Reth as a production execution client.
Foundry
Powered by RevmFoundry runs Revm under the hood. Custom cheatcodes are Revm precompiles — the same patterns covered here.
RISC Zero Steel
Revm zk coprocessorSteel is a Revm-based zk coprocessor — the same Revm Database trait, running inside a zkVM guest.
You'll be able to ship in the Rust EVM stack
- Read Reth's stages, Revm's interpreter, and Alloy's procedural macros
- Extend Revm with custom opcodes and precompiles (the Foundry cheatcode mechanism)
- Ship an Execution Extension (ExEx) — a node-speed indexer or MEV pipeline
- Build a custom Reth fork with custom EVM config, consensus, or storage
- Apply for grant work at Monad / Hyperliquid / Paradigm-style infra teams
4 Tiers, One Outcome
Finish all four and you can read, extend, and ship the Rust EVM stack used by Paradigm, Hyperliquid, and Tempo.
Beginner
Why the Rust EVM stack matters, environment setup, and your first Alloy script that hits a real RPC.
Intermediate
Alloy types, providers, signing, and the EVM concepts (stack, memory, opcodes, gas) you need before reading Revm.
Advanced
Revm interpreter internals, custom opcodes, the Database trait, Reth Staged Sync, and Execution Extensions.
Expert
Performance engineering, MDBX storage, Tokio internals, procedural macros, custom precompiles, MPT, MEV pipelines, zkEVM, and shipping a custom Reth fork.
The Rust EVM hiring window is open — right now
Reth is being adopted faster than the engineers who can extend it are showing up. The hires Paradigm, Hyperliquid, Tempo, and Foundry make in 2026 will be people who already read this stack. Start before the gap closes.
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