Tracking: Ethers -> Alloy transition

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Main transition

Alloy transition

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1. feat: Alloy migration #4737
   C-enhancement +1
   
2. feat: Alloy type migration #4674
   C-enhancement +1
   
3. feat: migrate RLP to alloy-rlp (take 2) #4749
   C-enhancement +1
   

Ethers removal

Note that only ethers-core is used in Reth code, while other crates are used only for testing which is fine for now.

ethers-core

reth-primitives

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1. Replace ethers usage in reth_primitives::abi::decode_revert_reason #4730
   C-enhancement D-good-first-issue +2
   
2. Upstream reth_primitives::abi::decode_revert_reason to Alloy #4789
   C-enhancement D-good-first-issue +2
   
3. Remove ethers conversions (mod ethers_compat etc) in reth-primitives #4738
   C-enhancement D-good-first-issue +2
   
4. Remove reth_primitives::utils::serde_helpers re-export #4739
   C-enhancement D-good-first-issue +2
   
5. Deprecate H* type re-exports, and rename to B* in the codebase #4740
   C-enhancement D-good-first-issue +2
   

reth-rpc

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1. Migrate EIP-712 and signing code in reth-rpc to Alloy #4742
   C-enhancement D-good-first-issue +2
   

Rest of Ethers, used in tests

Ethers in tests

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1. Migrate network tests to Alloy (blocked on Alloy network implementations)

Further work

Parity removal

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1. Remove dependency on rlp #4796
   A-dependencies C-enhancement S-stale +3
2. Remove dependencies on Parity hashers #4797
   A-dependencies C-enhancement +2
   

Refactors, upstreaming

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1. Consolidate primitives imports to reth-primitives #4714
   C-enhancement D-good-first-issue M-prevent-stale +3
2. Upstream reth_primitives::{Chain,NamedChain} to Alloy #4741
   C-discussion C-enhancement D-complex M-prevent-stale S-feedback-wanted S-needs-design +6
3. Upstream reth-rpc-types to Alloy #4743
   C-enhancement M-prevent-stale +2

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[gakonst]

Do we have all the necessary alloy network implementations now? I think so? cc @Evalir @DaniPopes

[DaniPopes]

I've looked at the tests a few days ago. They use an extension to SignerMiddleware with some RPC calls I believe we don't have yet, and the geth wrapper GethInstance to spawn a geth process:

reth/crates/net/network/tests/it/clique/geth.rs

Line 36 in 9aa4409

pub struct CliqueGethInstance {

This would also unblock #6006.