HardHat

This section will guide you through deploying the Counter smart contract on the ICB Network using Hardhat.

Hardhat is a powerful development environment for Ethereum and EVM-compatible blockchains like ICB. It offers a robust framework for compiling, testing, deploying, and debugging smart contracts. With features like a built-in local Ethereum network, Solidity stack traces, and seamless plugin integration (e.g., with Ethers.js and OpenZeppelin), Hardhat simplifies the entire smart contract development workflow.

Objectives

By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to do the following:

• Set up Hardhat for the ICB Network

• Create a simple Counter smart contract

• Compile the smart contract for deployment on ICB

• Deploy the Counter contract to the ICB Mainnet and Testnet

• Interact with the deployed contract using Hardhat scripts

This tutorial will help you understand the end-to-end workflow of building and deploying smart contracts on an EVM-compatible blockchain like ICB.