elt.green https://elt.green Elliott Green's blog — notes on blockchain, cryptography, and software engineering. Creating vanity EVM contract addresses with 'CREATE' https://elt.green/generating-evm-contract/ https://elt.green/generating-evm-contract/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT CREATE, CREATE2, and CREATE3 all get you a deployment address — but only one of them lets you mine a vanity address that's reusable across contracts and chains. Creating EVM EOA vanity addresses with 'profanity2' https://elt.green/generating-evm-vanity-addresses-with-profanity2/ https://elt.green/generating-evm-vanity-addresses-with-profanity2/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Profanity2 is one of the fastest open sourced Ethereum vanity address generators which can find specific patterns or sequences, such as leading zeros or custom prefixes. An introduction to Merkel Trees https://elt.green/an-introduction-to-merkel-trees/ https://elt.green/an-introduction-to-merkel-trees/ Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT A Merkle tree is a data structure which shares some qualities of a binary tree and a distributed hash table.