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 ### my ongoing web3 projects and code 
 
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 * [📚 web3toolkit](web3toolkit)
     - an ongoing development of a library and set of python scripts with my fav on-chain ops.
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 ### general links (just useful stuff)
 
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 * [black](https://github.com/psf/black)
 * [flake8 ](https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/)