Consensys Discontinues Ethereum’s Ganache, Truffle Toolkits

Ethereum developers are assembling to honor the teams behind Ganache and Truffle, two early Ethereum smart contract toolkits. Ganache and Truffle were indispensable in the early days of Ethereum smart contracts.

Consensys announced the discontinuation of the two products in a post dated September 22 as part of a larger transition to MetaMask Snaps and SDK.

Georgios Konstantopoulos, chief technology officer and partner at Paradigm, referred to the announcement as the “end of an era,” revealing that he had written his first-ever smart contract on the Truffle Suite.

Similarly, the pseudonymous developer and well-known crypto commentator Foobar wrote that Truffle was the first technology platform they used to write Ethereum smart contracts.

“The equipment that helped me launch my vocation You have likely contributed more to the field than you realize,” another Ethereum developer wrote in response to the announcement.

The Truffle Suite was introduced in 2015, and Consensys acquired its team and technology in 2020. At the time of the acquisition, Consensys claimed that 1.3 million developers worldwide utilized the Truffle Suite.

Consensys explained in a separate blog post that it would be partnering with HardHat to assist developers with writing and deploying new software on the Ethereum network to ease the transition period between tech stacks.

“We are investing in new tools and APIs to enable developers to build powerful DApps with MetaMask, Infura, and Linea,” Consensys wrote. “Therefore, the Truffle engineering team will join these teams to accelerate the development of their developer offerings.”

According to a remark made on X (formerly Twitter) on September 22, the Truffle Suite will be discontinued over the next 90 days. Consensys reports that the Truffle and Ganache codebases will remain accessible as public archives in the future.

Ganache was a prominent tool in the Ethereum development community for creating, evaluating, and deploying smart contracts.

Due to its interoperability with the Truffle Suite, a development framework for creating, testing, and deploying smart contracts on Ethereum, it was a popular technology stack.

Consensys refers to new decentralized applications that extend the functionality of the MetaMask wallet as “Snaps” for the MetaMask wallet.

Simon Morris, the director of strategy at Consensys, stated recently that the soon-to-be-launched MetaMask Snaps will operate similarly to Apple’s App Store.