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Hello! Thanks for this. I have some questions:

1. Why do you want to connect mainnet to rinkeby? I don't think this will work, but maybe that is just a typo
2. Is there a specific reason you don't like the environment variables?

But!
Let me divulge some of our plans and thoughts around similar topics:

1. We want global config support.
2. We want env var interpolation in the config
3. We want you to just straight up be able to put your env vars in your global config
4. We want a secret storage support, like another abstract class, where you can use env-vars, or keyring, or whatever you need.
5. We are going to add all the network support to each provider plugins for the networks they actually support

And when I say "we want", I mean "I have heard someone express or I myself express desire for this"

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Why do you want to connect mainnet to rinkeby? I don't think this will work, but maybe that is just a typo

Yeah, a typo, but it does beg the question whether the network should be derived from the provider/node not the config. But that's way out of scope here.

Is there a specific reason you don't like the environment variables?

A couple reasons.

1. I Very often I will use keys per project or piece of software. Especially with Alchemy, you get separate metrics and separate rate limits (sometimes) per projects. Perhaps you also may want to use different keys between "work" and "home" or whatever. Having to set/unset env vars all the time can be difficult.
2. Networks, especially. With Alchemy you do not get an overall key but create a key for each network/app whatever.

Here's my current personal dashboard as an example:

Each of these represent a different Alchemy app, each with a unique key/endpoint.

Other thoughts sound cool. Some kind of secret store could be valuable, especially if you share things like Alchemy keys across a team which I think is pretty common.

We are going to add all the network support to each provider plugins for the networks they actually support

Not sure what you mean by this though.

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