Security & testing

4byte

Debugging & inspection

Transaction decoding · ABI encoding

Website gobitfly/ethereum-function-signature-registry

4byte.directory maps four-byte function selectors and 32-byte event-signature hashes to their human-readable signatures. Builders query it when decoding calldata or logs from contracts without a published ABI.

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