diff --git a/crates/artifacts/solc/Cargo.toml b/crates/artifacts/solc/Cargo.toml
index 807b2f798..15f0f1240 100644
--- a/crates/artifacts/solc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/artifacts/solc/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ serde.workspace = true
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 yansi.workspace = true
+regex.workspace = true
 
 # async
 tokio = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = ["fs"] }
diff --git a/crates/artifacts/solc/src/bytecode.rs b/crates/artifacts/solc/src/bytecode.rs
index eb6985ff0..b88121d9e 100644
--- a/crates/artifacts/solc/src/bytecode.rs
+++ b/crates/artifacts/solc/src/bytecode.rs
@@ -353,6 +353,21 @@ impl BytecodeObject {
     pub fn contains_placeholder(&self, file: &str, library: &str) -> bool {
         self.contains_fully_qualified_placeholder(&format!("{file}:{library}"))
     }
+
+    /// Strips all __$xxx$__ placeholders from the bytecode if it's an unlinked bytecode.
+    /// by replacing them with 20 zero bytes.
+    /// This is useful for matching bytecodes to a contract source, and for the source map,
+    /// in which the actual address of the placeholder isn't important.
+    pub fn strip_bytecode_placeholders(&self) -> Option<Bytes> {
+        match &self {
+            Self::Bytecode(bytes) => Some(bytes.clone()),
+            Self::Unlinked(s) => {
+                // Replace all __$xxx$__ placeholders with 32 zero bytes
+                let bytes = replace_placeholders_and_decode(s).ok()?;
+                Some(bytes.into())
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 // Returns an empty bytecode object
@@ -388,6 +403,13 @@ where
     }
 }
 
+// Replace all __$xxx$__ placeholders with 32 zero bytes
+pub fn replace_placeholders_and_decode(s: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, hex::FromHexError> {
+    let re = regex::Regex::new(r"_\$.{34}\$_").expect("invalid regex");
+    let s = re.replace_all(s, "00".repeat(40));
+    hex::decode(s.as_bytes())
+}
+
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct DeployedBytecode {
     #[serde(flatten)]