
Dmitriy Zdanovich contributed to neonlabsorg/neon-evm by building and refining transaction tracing, emulation, and reliability features for EVM on Solana. He enhanced tracing fidelity by implementing granular EVM step tracking, improved gas and nonce management, and introduced robust caching for deactivated features to optimize performance. Using Rust and Solana SDK, Dmitriy upgraded dependencies, aligned deployment artifacts, and added deserialization support for opcodes, enabling more flexible data workflows. His work addressed complex debugging scenarios, ensured accurate transaction lifecycle reporting, and reduced support load by fixing nonce handling and tracer state resets, demonstrating depth in backend and blockchain development.

June 2025 (2025-06) focused on enhancing tracing capabilities in neonlabsorg/neon-evm. Delivered Enhanced Call Tracer to enrich data for canceled transactions by populating from, to, input, and value in CallFrame during transaction initialization, enabling more accurate tracing and debugging of canceled transactions. This work is linked to NDEV-3770 with commit 4da90d7b7f853c9be5446193523687ab667a16d2. Result: improved observability, analytics readiness, and faster diagnosis of transaction lifecycle issues.
June 2025 (2025-06) focused on enhancing tracing capabilities in neonlabsorg/neon-evm. Delivered Enhanced Call Tracer to enrich data for canceled transactions by populating from, to, input, and value in CallFrame during transaction initialization, enabling more accurate tracing and debugging of canceled transactions. This work is linked to NDEV-3770 with commit 4da90d7b7f853c9be5446193523687ab667a16d2. Result: improved observability, analytics readiness, and faster diagnosis of transaction lifecycle issues.
May 2025 monthly summary for neon-evm focusing on key accomplishments, major fixes, impact, and skills demonstrated. Delivery centered on reliability of transaction tracing in the EVM loader and enabling opcode deserialization, with clear business value in correctness and future data-driven workflows.
May 2025 monthly summary for neon-evm focusing on key accomplishments, major fixes, impact, and skills demonstrated. Delivery centered on reliability of transaction tracing in the EVM loader and enabling opcode deserialization, with clear business value in correctness and future data-driven workflows.
April 2025 monthly summary for neon-evm (neonlabsorg/neon-evm). Focused on stabilizing the transaction emulation tracing path and preventing data leakage by ensuring synchronous state reset for tracers on transaction reset/cancel. This work improves reliability of transaction tracing, reduces leakage risk, and supports accurate emulation outcomes for scheduled transactions and precompiles.
April 2025 monthly summary for neon-evm (neonlabsorg/neon-evm). Focused on stabilizing the transaction emulation tracing path and preventing data leakage by ensuring synchronous state reset for tracers on transaction reset/cancel. This work improves reliability of transaction tracing, reduces leakage risk, and supports accurate emulation outcomes for scheduled transactions and precompiles.
March 2025 monthly summary for neon-evm (neonlabsorg/neon-evm). The period focused on stabilizing scheduled transaction flows by correcting nonce handling and consolidating nonce/gas logic in the emulation path. Deliverables emphasize correctness, reliability, and maintainability with direct alignment to product goals for scheduled transactions.
March 2025 monthly summary for neon-evm (neonlabsorg/neon-evm). The period focused on stabilizing scheduled transaction flows by correcting nonce handling and consolidating nonce/gas logic in the emulation path. Deliverables emphasize correctness, reliability, and maintainability with direct alignment to product goals for scheduled transactions.
February 2025 — Neon EVM (neon-evm) focused on improving transaction tracing fidelity and debugging reliability through targeted refactoring and tracing enhancements. Delivered Transaction Emulation Tracing Enhancement to correct iterative transaction handling and debug tracing across multiple steps, with robust tracer lifecycle management during resets and cancellations. Introduced a new is_return flag to precisely control execution flow in complex scenarios, significantly improving trace accuracy for multi-step state changes. The change directly improves developer productivity by providing more reliable, actionable traces in difficult transactions.
February 2025 — Neon EVM (neon-evm) focused on improving transaction tracing fidelity and debugging reliability through targeted refactoring and tracing enhancements. Delivered Transaction Emulation Tracing Enhancement to correct iterative transaction handling and debug tracing across multiple steps, with robust tracer lifecycle management during resets and cancellations. Introduced a new is_return flag to precisely control execution flow in complex scenarios, significantly improving trace accuracy for multi-step state changes. The change directly improves developer productivity by providing more reliable, actionable traces in difficult transactions.
January 2025 performance summary for neon-evm. Delivered focused performance and reliability improvements with a clear emphasis on business value and maintainable architecture. Key outcomes include the introduction of a deactivated features caching layer with a refactored retrieval path, API/CLI exposure, and a robust test suite; a bug fix to debug_traceTransaction that ensures accurate block_number and block_timestamp by using live block data with emulation overrides; and a Solana dependency upgrade to keep the project aligned with current fixes and compatibility.
January 2025 performance summary for neon-evm. Delivered focused performance and reliability improvements with a clear emphasis on business value and maintainable architecture. Key outcomes include the introduction of a deactivated features caching layer with a refactored retrieval path, API/CLI exposure, and a robust test suite; a bug fix to debug_traceTransaction that ensures accurate block_number and block_timestamp by using live block data with emulation overrides; and a Solana dependency upgrade to keep the project aligned with current fixes and compatibility.
Month: 2024-12 — neon-evm (neonlabsorg/neon-evm). Delivered Solana SDK 2.0.15 upgrade and deployment alignment to ensure build compatibility and prepare for new capabilities. Committed: 77d52e79340143e052f551dd50b2bf5788e3d051. This upgrade stabilizes production deployments and positions the project to leverage upcoming Solana ecosystem enhancements. No major bugs fixed this cycle.
Month: 2024-12 — neon-evm (neonlabsorg/neon-evm). Delivered Solana SDK 2.0.15 upgrade and deployment alignment to ensure build compatibility and prepare for new capabilities. Committed: 77d52e79340143e052f551dd50b2bf5788e3d051. This upgrade stabilizes production deployments and positions the project to leverage upcoming Solana ecosystem enhancements. No major bugs fixed this cycle.
November 2024 – Neon EVM (neonlabsorg/neon-evm) delivered a critical reliability fix to gas accounting during transaction cancellations under low gas conditions. The patch ensures gas_used is accurately logged, exposes gas_available for visibility, and updates the gas consumption logic in transaction_cancel.rs to reflect actual usage when gas is constrained. This aligns with NDEV-3329 and is captured in commit 01731f3a91d7f398460fc98f63fb4bac455d1f04.
November 2024 – Neon EVM (neonlabsorg/neon-evm) delivered a critical reliability fix to gas accounting during transaction cancellations under low gas conditions. The patch ensures gas_used is accurately logged, exposes gas_available for visibility, and updates the gas consumption logic in transaction_cancel.rs to reflect actual usage when gas is constrained. This aligns with NDEV-3329 and is captured in commit 01731f3a91d7f398460fc98f63fb4bac455d1f04.
In Oct 2024, Neon EVM delivered enhanced EVM tracing and transaction processing with debugging support, using granular EVM steps for precise execution tracking. Implemented fixes for EIP-1559 and related bugs; added support for debug_traceTransaction with cancel instructions; improved gas and nonce management. This work improves observability, reliability, and developer experience, enabling deeper debugging and more accurate transaction processing.
In Oct 2024, Neon EVM delivered enhanced EVM tracing and transaction processing with debugging support, using granular EVM steps for precise execution tracking. Implemented fixes for EIP-1559 and related bugs; added support for debug_traceTransaction with cancel instructions; improved gas and nonce management. This work improves observability, reliability, and developer experience, enabling deeper debugging and more accurate transaction processing.
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