docs/design/execution-layer.md section 10: what the execution-layer branch implements
(D1 to D10, RPC, differential), the devnet rules fixed there, what is missing, the merge
plan with the finality branch. docs/bench-log.md: the 3-node simnet run with numbers.
tools/evm-smoke: viem 2.57 smoke test (fund, 50 transfers, duplicates in parallel blocks,
contract deploy and call, state roots across nodes, export for igneum-exec-diff) and the
solc build of DeveloperRegistry and the Counter test contract.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>