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Deploying Smart Contracts

Introduction​

To make developing smart contracts easier, we offer an open-source template library and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The template library includes pre-built smart contracts that you can customize to meet your specific needs.

If you need a fundamental explanation of what smart contracts are and how they work, we recommend contacting our team to join our Learn World Blockchain course. Our experts will guide you through the basics, ensuring you have a solid foundation before diving into development. For a practical guide, please visit deploying a contract.

SettleMint's smart contract sets include both Hardhat and Foundry, enabling you to compile, test, and deploy using your preferred framework or a combination of both. This flexibility allows you to optimize your development process to best suit your project needs and preferences.

Overview of the Smart Contract Deployment Process on SettleMint​

The following is a high-level overview of smart contract development processes at SettleMint.

1. Deploying a Smart Contract Set​

  • Add Smart Contract Set: Navigate to the smart contract sets page and press the button "Add Smart Contract Set."
  • Picking Your Template: Pick the template of your choice.

2. Compiling and Configuring The Smart Contract​

  • Compiling: Convert your smart contract code into a format that the blockchain can understand and execute.
  • Configuring: SettleMint sets all the necessary configurations for you,
  • Purpose: Tailors the deployment process to your specific requirements and ensures your contract can run on the blockchain.

3. Deploying and Interacting with the Smart Contract​

  • Deploying: Upload your compiled smart contract to a blockchain network.
  • Interacting: Once deployed, interact with the smart contract through transactions that call its functions.
  • Purpose: Makes the contract accessible on the blockchain so users can interact with it and utilize its features to perform actions defined in its logic.

Tools to Use​

At SettleMint, we provide the option to use either Foundry or Hardhat. Both of these tools allow you to compile and deploy smart contracts within the SettleMint IDE. The workflow in both frameworks is very similar: you compile and then deploy the smart contracts.

Foundry​

Foundry is a toolkit for EVM development. It provides tools to compile, test, and deploy smart contracts.

  1. Initialize Project: Set up your project folder and deploy a Foundry smart contract set.
  2. Write and Configure Contract: Create your smart contract code in Solidity and set up your project settings in a foundry.toml file if needed.
  3. Compile and Deploy Contract: Convert your Solidity code into bytecode and deploy your compiled contract to the blockchain network of your choice.

Hardhat​

Hardhat is a development environment for EVM software. It provides a flexible and extensible ecosystem for building, testing, and deploying smart contracts.

  1. Initialize Project: Set up your project folder and deploy a Hardhat smart contract set.
  2. Write and Configure Contract: Create your smart contract code in Solidity and set up your project settings in a hardhat.config.js file if needed.
  3. Compile and Deploy Contract: Convert your Solidity code into bytecode and deploy your compiled contract to the blockchain network of your choice.

Key Points​

  • Smart Contracts: Self-executing programs with predefined rules.
  • Compiling and Configuring: Converts code into a format the blockchain can run and tailors the deployment process.
  • Deploying and Interacting: Uploads the compiled code to the blockchain and makes it accessible for interaction. By following these steps and using the appropriate tools, you can easily create, compile, and deploy smart contracts to automate and secure your business processes on the blockchain.