General Thoughts

The Scaffolding is pretty good in terms that it provides an implementation rather than just small code snippet to integrate, some of the merits →

• Code is super well documented so makes it easier to understand how each component works.
• Makefile is literally the biggest perk, most of the core devs just spend ages dealing with anchor and cargo version managers, didn’t realise node stuff could help here this much.

To be honest I really didn’t get the clear purpose of scaffolding, Like what is it trying to focus on? Its trying to give a framework like a template and is a tutorial but needs more to be either one of those kinda stuck in the middle ground. Things I think might improve the developer experience

• Downloading chain-specific frameworks and linking to more custom resources.
• Commenting on the code snippets.
• It is still super bare-bones, and easy to deploy but not much learning coming out of it cause its still super hard for a non-evmdev like me. Working on a small guide to the anvil and using tilt for deployment on local validator will help a lot.

If we want folks to get started on development, something like Hello-Wormhole is way better, looks like scaffolding is trying to be a part of the docs, tutorial, and template at the same time and not doing anything particularly well. Merging the scaffolding and Hello Wormhole into something like wormhole cookbook would help a lot.

Prob one of the best ways to improve is to give more explanation or link to a more comprehensive tutorial or maybe turn them into small exercises rather than github markdown files, its easier for core devs to learn this way but it increases the friction a lot.

Hello Token

Super hard because of multi-step parsing and sending process and both of them on different chains, The more time I spent testing it out it felt something like Intents could totally be game changer here

Reducing so much of the boilerplate process, Anoma is on testnet right now and I could probably build a poc with wormhole working on the backend.

• No section for token transfers to no executable accounts
• Old section on contract-controlled transfers needs to be updated

NFT Burn Bridge

Giving the function and code snippets for backward compatibility ie Burn and mint from eth to Solana is not there, just need to add a few more code snippets to add ‘registerEmitter’ on solana rather than just evm.

Found a bug, cant find code that checks person signing the transaction and emitter are the same people.