Our interest in Hardhat was driven by our own experience of building and maintaining developer tooling for the Aragon ecosystem. Not only were these efforts time consuming, difficult, and error-prone, we also found ourselves constantly re-inventing the wheel in areas we did not want to care about or force opinions on (e.g. Ganache connections, Truffle providers, test strategy). Hardhat, with its plugin ecosystem, has effectively eliminated many of these problems for us. We feel confident piggybacking on the best for the underlying layers so that we can focus our attention on exposing the power of the Aragon ecosystem to our community.

Builder has become an essential part of our development and Continuous Integration stack. At Connext, we develop and test complicated smart contract systems for our state channel implementations, making proper Solidity tooling a key to our productivity and success. Hardhat's state-of-the-art Solidity stack trace and console.log features saved us considerable development time. As a user, it's clear that Hardhat prioritizes a great developer experience, which aligns fully with Connext's values. We enjoy interacting with the team and we have even made contributions to the project.