From 93ef7872cd1a424d9a0f4f71efc662fbc3a78adc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Franco Victorio <victorio.franco@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 11:46:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add debug logs for provider creation

---
 .../src/internal/hardhat-network/provider/provider.ts  | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/hardhat-core/src/internal/hardhat-network/provider/provider.ts b/packages/hardhat-core/src/internal/hardhat-network/provider/provider.ts
index 6496053570..0df36f90a1 100644
--- a/packages/hardhat-core/src/internal/hardhat-network/provider/provider.ts
+++ b/packages/hardhat-core/src/internal/hardhat-network/provider/provider.ts
@@ -619,11 +619,17 @@ export async function createHardhatNetworkProvider(
   loggerConfig: LoggerConfig,
   artifacts?: Artifacts
 ): Promise<EIP1193Provider> {
-  return EdrProviderWrapper.create(
+  log("Making tracing config");
+  const tracingConfig = await makeTracingConfig(artifacts);
+  log("Creating EDR provider");
+  const provider = EdrProviderWrapper.create(
     hardhatNetworkProviderConfig,
     loggerConfig,
-    await makeTracingConfig(artifacts)
+    tracingConfig
   );
+  log("EDR provider created");
+
+  return provider;
 }
 
 async function makeTracingConfig(

From f6ddc92e46c3031367c4cb7c549964169ccfb9c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patricio Palladino <email@patriciopalladino.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 11:34:10 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Create fuzzy-mangos-behave.md

---
 .changeset/fuzzy-mangos-behave.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/fuzzy-mangos-behave.md

diff --git a/.changeset/fuzzy-mangos-behave.md b/.changeset/fuzzy-mangos-behave.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea406edfdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/fuzzy-mangos-behave.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"hardhat": patch
+---
+
+Add `debug` logs to Hardhat Network initialization process.