[Feature] Publish alloy on crates.io

[MathieuDutSik]

Component

rpc

Describe the feature you would like

Could a recent version of alloy be published on crates.io?

Additional context

The version available on crates.io give the impression that alloy is a project that is just starting and not usable. This is the wrong impression as I could use it for my needs.

An additional problem is that crates.io is a closed system. You cannot publish a crate if it depends on a crate which is not on crates.io. So the lack of publishing has functional consequences.

The problems that I see are the following:

• The alloy (see https://crates.io/crates/alloy) has a fixed version 0.1.0 and there is no pointing GitHub repository.
• The alloy-provider (see https://crates.io/crates/alloy-provider) is marked as 0.1.0 and updated 5 days ago, yet only one version is indicated and there is again no pointing GitHub repository.
• The alloy-rpc-types (see https://crates.io/crates/alloy-rpc-types) is marked as v0.0.0-reserved. Which is a little bit unfortunate because there is a rpc-types-eth in alloy.

[sergiimk]

Our company have ended up starting a big project using ethers because a combination of factors made it appear that alloy is A LOT less mature than it actually is.

To ones listed above I would add:

• alloy marked as "Soon" in top-level project readme
• no link to examples repo in the meta-crate readme
• major projects like foundry still using ethers alongside alloy (that was more of a case a few months ago, now looks like only abigen dep still left)

It's only after a lot of digging and discovering examples we realized the true state of the crate and have since been actively migrating to alloy.

Alloy releases not present in crates.io is now a big obstacle that prevents us from uploading our own libraries built on top of it.

[DaniPopes]

This has been done :)

https://crates.io/crates/alloy

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2024/06/alloy-release

https://x.com/gakonst/status/1802750099078209701