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Develop and Deploy your First Smart Contract on Astar/Shiden EVM

Introduction​

In this tutorial, you will learn how to develop and deploy a smart contract on Astar/Shiden EVM.

This tutorial is aimed at those who have never touched Astar/Shiden EVM before, and want to get basic, but comprehensive, understanding of deploying smart contract on Astar/Shiden EVM.

This tutorial should take about 30 minutes, after which you will officially be a dApp developer! To complete this tutorial, you will need:

  • basic knowledge of Solidity and Polkadot;
  • familiarity with software development tools and CLIs;
  • basic knowledge about MetaMask;
  • access to Discord, Remix, and Polkadot.js Apps portal.

What you will do in this Tutorial:​

  1. Learn about Shiden and Shibuya.
  2. Run an Astar collator as a local standalone node.
    • Please check Build Environment chapter
  3. Configure MetaMask.
  4. Deploy a smart contract on your local network.
  5. Obtain some test tokens from the faucet.
  6. Deploy a smart contract on Shibuya, a test network of Shiden.
  7. Deploy a smart contract on Shiden.