Deploying Contract Is Made Easy: Read This!
Are you new to blockchain development? If yes, you have no idea where to start. So, you want to understand how to deploy a smart contract and interact with the smart contracts. Deploying your first smart contract is easy. With the use virtual wallet, you will walk through minting and deploying a smart contract, such as:
- Metamask
- Solidity
- Hardhat
- Alchemy
Steps to deploy the first smart contract
Here are the steps to deploy a smart contract:
- Connect to the Ethereum network. You have many ways in making requests to the Ethereum chain. As a simple way, use the free Alchemy account, an API and blockchain developer platform that allows you to communicate with the Ethereum chain without the need of running your nodes. The platform has “developer tools” to monitor and analytics to understand what is going on under the hood in the smart contract deployment.
- Create app and API key. Using the Alchemy account, generate an API key by minting or creating an app. It allows making requests to the test network. If not familiar with testnet, you can do some research. Go to the “Create App” page in the Dashboard on your account by hovering over “Apps” in the navigation bar and clicking “Create App”. Name the app “Hello World”, provide a short description, choose “Staging” for the app bookkeeping, and select a network.
Click the “Create app” button and it should appear.
- Create an address (Ethereum account). An Ethereum account is required to send and receive transactions. You may use a virtual wallet to manage your Ethereum account address. You can download and mint a virtual wallet account for free. When creating an account, or with an existing account, switch over to the “Test Network” at the upper right to avoid dealing with real money.Browse our partner-sponsored Glasses, with a variety of options to suit every taste and budget, available to buy online
- Add Ether. To deploy the smart contract to test the network, you may need fake Eth. Getting Eth is easy, go to the faucet and enter the account address, click “Send Me Eth”. It takes some time to receive fake Eth because of network traffic.
- Check the balance. Double-check your balance by making an eth_get balance request using your composter tool in Alchemy.
- Initialize project. Create a folder for your project and navigate to the command line.
- Write a contract. Open the hello-world project. Smart contracts are written in Solidity.
- Deploy a contract. You are ready to deploy your smart contract by navigating to the “command line and run”.
Just follow these steps to help you deploy a smart contract.
