diff --git a/.golangci-version b/.golangci-version
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--- a/.golangci-version
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1.61.0
diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
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--- a/.golangci.yml
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-run:
-  tests: true
-  skip-dirs-use-default: false
-  skip-dirs:
-    - grpc/client/rest/*
-    - bundle/*
-    - generated/*
-    - otelginmetrics/*
-  timeout: 15m
-  skip-files:
-    - '.*\\.abigen\\.go$'
-    - '.*\\.metadata\\.go$'
-    - '.*\\.pb\\.go$'
-    - '.*_gen.go$'
-
-linters-settings:
-  gofmt:
-    simplify: true
-  govet:
-    # Don't report about shadowed variables
-    check-shadowing: false
-  misspell:
-    locale: US
-  gocritic:
-    disabled-checks:
-      - appendAssign
-linters:
-  enable-all: true
-  disable:
-    # Global variables are used in many places throughout the code base.
-    - gochecknoglobals
-
-    # Some lines are over 80 characters on purpose and we don't want to make them
-    # even longer by marking them as 'nolint'.
-    - lll
-
-    # We don't care (enough) about misaligned structs to lint that.
-    - maligned
-
-    # We have long functions, especially in tests. Moving or renaming those would
-    # trigger funlen problems that we may not want to solve at that time.
-    - funlen
-
-    # Disable for now as we haven't yet tuned the sensitivity to our codebase
-    # yet.  Enabling by default for example, would also force new contributors to
-    # potentially extensively refactor code, when they want to smaller change to
-    # land.
-    - gocyclo
-
-    # Instances of table driven tests that don't pre-allocate shouldn't trigger
-    # the linter.
-    - prealloc
-
-    # Init functions are used by loggers throughout the codebase.
-    - gochecknoinits
-    # this messes with formatting
-    - goimports
-    # TODO implement paralell tests
-    - paralleltest
-    # remove
-    - wsl
-    # skip for post set
-    - exhaustruct
-    - exhaustivestruct
-    # if short
-    - ifshort
-    # we want to use todo
-    - godox
-    # skip new line return until autofix works for it
-    - nlreturn
-    # go 1.13 error
-    - goerr113
-    # disable gci
-    - gci
-    # disable gofumpt
-    - gofumpt
-    # allow magic numbers
-    - gomnd
-    # allow println
-    - forbidigo
-    # disabled (todo: enable)
-    - interfacer
-    # Allow nolint
-    - nolintlint
-    # we use external json tags
-    - tagliatelle
-    # var name len
-    - varnamelen
-    # allow replacements
-    - gomoddirectives
-    # no need to disallow returning interfaces
-    - ireturn
-    - nonamedreturns
-    - contextcheck
-    - nosnakecase
-    - depguard
-    # we use core/testsuite.Err() etc that don't get caught by this linter and result in false positives.
-    - testifylint
-    # we use metrics.EndSpan and metrics.EndSpanWithErr so this gets triggered falsely
-    - spancheck
-    # simply annoying
-    - perfsprint
-    # malfunctions on embedded structs
-    - typecheck
-    # magic numbers
-    - gomnd
-  fast: false
-
-issues:
-  # We use dot imports extensively in tests. Usually for testify assertions
-  exclude-rules:
-    - path: _test\.go
-      linters:
-        - revive
-        - stylecheck
-        - dupl
-    # wrapping errors when exporting for testing is tedious
-    - path: export_test\.go
-      linters:
-        - wrapcheck
-      text: 'should not use dot imports'
-    - path: contracts/
-      linters:
-        - revive
-      text: 'and that stutters; consider calling this'
-    - path: ethergo/example/*
-      linters:
-        - wrapcheck
-    - path: testutil/*
-      linters:
-        - wrapcheck
-    - path: ethergo/*
-      linters:
-        - staticcheck
-      text: 'SA1019'
-    - path: \.resolvers\.go
-      linters:
-        - cyclop
-    - path: signoz/*
-      linters:
-        - gomnd
-        - stylecheck
-    - path: example/*
-      linters:
-        - revive
-        - cyclop
-        - forcetypeassert
-        - staticcheck
-        - wrapcheck
-  exclude-use-default: false
-  new-from-rev: 9fe0f033b73acf6b8240f0a832c4b4d21e68181b