diff --git a/.golangci-version b/.golangci-version
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+1.61.0
diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.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