Quick Start
Guide overview
This guide will help you get started with such essential Everscale tools as:
You will learn how to:
Create and compile your first Solidity contract
Run Local blockchain for testing
Deploy your first contract
Run it on-chain
Run a getter-function
Make a transfer
Explore contract data in Explorer and GraphQL playground
Switch to the developer network
Configure Evercloud access
Configure devnet giver
Table of Contents
Install everdev - single interface to access all the developer tools
If you experience any problems with installation, check out our troubleshooting section.
Create helloWorld contract
Compile it
Using Solidity compiler:
You can also use the Solidity compiler driver:
Run Local Blockchain
Attention: Docker should be running.
Configure default network
Set Local Blockchain SE (Simple Emulator) as the default network:
Configure Giver wallet that will sponsor deploy operation
Here we use address and private key of SE High Load Giver.
Note: it may be already configured if you make a clean install of the latest Everdev. Then you can skip this step. If you are updating from some old version, it is necessary.
Attention! This giver is available only in SE. If you work in mainnet or devnet, you need to deploy your own giver - more details below.
Generate the keys for contract ownership
*Note that there are shortcuts for all the commands: s l = signer list :)
**Don't forget to make the owner key default otherwise giver keys will be used as default.
Calculate the contract address
You can see that the contract does not exist yet (is not deployed) but you can already see its future address.
Deploy
Here we deploy the contract, sponsoring it with 10 Tokens (Everscale native currency has 9 decimals). The money for deploy are taken from the giver we configured in the previous steps.
View contract information with Explorer
Go to localhost and search for your contract address in search bar. Open your account page. You will need it later to see its transactions and messages, that we will produce in the next steps.
Explore contract information with GraphQL
Go to localhost/graphql. Enter in the left pane and click Run button (replace the contract's address with the one you got in the previous steps).
You will see:
You can specify any other fields in the result section that are available in GraphQL Schema. (Click Docs
on the right side of your screen to explore it).
What is GraphQL? This is the API of blockchain, to retrieve data from it and to send data into it. You can use this playground later, if you will need need to test some queries.
Run on-chain
Let's move on and run an on-chain method.
Let's enter 3. You will see the transaction ID of the operation.
You can also execute it inline like this:
$ everdev c run helloWorld touch
In the result you can see the transaction_id. Search for it on your Contract's page in Explorer and in GraphQL playground (use transactions
collection instead of accounts
).
Run a getter function
Transfer some tokens
Attention!
Contracts take value in nanotokens, so in this step we transferred 1 token.
Bounce = true means that if the recipient does not exist, money will be returned back. If you plan to transfer money for deploy, specify Bounce = false!
Again, now you can find this transaction in Explorer or GraphQL API.
Switch to Development Network
The Development Network, aka devnet is the Everscale test network with free test tokens that has an identical configuration to mainnet. You can test your contracts in a live environment on it.
To access devnet, you need to create an account and a project on https://dashboard.evercloud.dev/. Follow this guide to do it.
You will get your personal project ID, optional secret key and an endpoint of the following format: https://devnet.evercloud.dev/<projectID>/graphql
To set devnet up as the default network in everdev, do the following:
Go to your Evercloud dashboard, find your "Project Id" and "Secret" (optional) on the "Security" tab, and pass them as parameters:
Example:
Set a giver contract on your network
While working with SE network, you already have a preset giver. In Devnet you need to configure your own.
This contract can be some multisig wallet, for example your Surf account (don't forget to switch it to devnet too!).
To get test tokens to your future giver, go to your Evercloud dashboard, open the Endpoints tab of your project, and click the faucet button next to Development Network. Specify the address and you will get some free test tokens.
To set the giver up in everdev, first get your giver keys ready. In Surf it is your seed phrase.
Save the keys of your giver account into a signer that will be used to sign giver transactions:
Then add the giver address specifying the signer to be used with it.
Where
giver_type
is the type of the giver contract you selected (GiverV1 | GiverV2 | GiverV3 | SafeMultisigWallet | SetcodeMultisigWallet) - for Surf use SetcodeMultisigWallet
.
Now you can do all the steps of this guide on devnet and see your transactions on your GraphQL playground at https://devnet.evercloud.dev/<projectID>/graphql and ever.live!
What's next?
Also take a look at our blockchain basics page that will help you understand the core concepts of Everscale:)
If you want to integrate your application with Everscale - dive into our SDK Quick Start!
If you want to explore the GraphQL API more, here is the documentation!
If you are an exchange - check out our exchange guide!
We hope this guide was helpful to you! If you have any difficulties/questions/suggestions/etc. please write to out telegram channel.
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