🔗 VeChain Hardhat Setup Guide
🔗 Hardhat Official Site

Overview

Hardhat is a comprehensive development environment designed for building, testing, and deploying smart contracts. Developed by Nomic Labs, it supports Ethereum and Ethereum-compatible networks, including VeChain, via VeChain’s official Hardhat plugin.

With VeChain’s EVM-compatible infrastructure, developers can use Hardhat to write and deploy smart contracts, configure test environments, and integrate advanced tools like gas profiling, deployment scripting, and contract testing, all within a familiar developer workflow.

Features

VeChain Integration:
Using VeChain’s official plugin, Hardhat can be configured to deploy contracts to the VeChainThor network, including support for gas delegation and testnet/mainnet deployment.

Local Blockchain Network:
Hardhat’s in-memory network allows developers to test contracts quickly before deploying to public or VeChain-specific testnets.

Advanced Testing Framework:
Built-in testing tools enable developers to write unit and integration tests with robust debugging, stack tracing, and error handling.

Extensible Plugins:
Hardhat supports a broad ecosystem of plugins, including tools for Solidity coverage, gas reporting, and TypeScript integration.

Automated Deployment:
Deployment scripts can be written in JavaScript or TypeScript to automate contract deployment to VeChain’s EVM-compatible infrastructure.

Getting Started

To get started with Hardhat on VeChain:

• Install Hardhat using npm:
  
  

   npm install --save-dev hardhat

  
  

• Initialize your project:
  
  

   npx hardhat

  
  

• Install VeChain plugin:
  
  

   npm install --save-dev @vechain/sdk-hardhat-plugin

  
  

• Configure VeChain network in your hardhat.config.js file.

Build with Hardhat on VeChain