The hardhat-verify package is useful to reuse outside of Hardhat for other applications that wish to submit Solidity contract sources to Etherscan, Sourcify, and Blockscan but its dependency on the main hardhat package is a superfluous.
This package can be loaded in a package.json file like this:
{
"dependencies": {
"@nomicfoundation/hardhat-verify": "^2.0.8",
"hardhat": "npm:hardhat-plugin-noop@0.0.1"
}
}
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