Shimmer

<blockquote>TL;DR:After releasing the first Stardust compatible version of ISC (IOTA Smart Contracts) last week, we now have a fully functional and public smart contract test chain deployed, allowing anyone to conveniently test out our latest technology without having to run their own smart contract node. Follow our documentation to connect to it and start trying it out!</blockquote>With last week&#39;s release of the <a href="https://blog.shimmer.network/iota-smart-contracts-release-030/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Stardust compatible IOTA Smart Contracts </a>we’ve kicked off the start of testing and improving ISC until it is ready for release on Shimmer. In this phase we are actively looking for contributors testing out ISC by deploying their own smart contracts and interacting with smart contracts. To lower the barrier to entry we have deployed a test-chain on the Shimmer Beta network, including some helpful tooling. The more testing and improvements we get done in this phase, the faster and better the actual launch of the first real smart contract chain on Shimmer will be.The test-chain consists of several load-balanced Wasp nodes forming a committee, communicating to the Shimmer beta network through their own local Hornet nodes. The setup comes with an exposed EVM JSON/RPC endpoint that can be used by existing EVM based tooling like Metamask, Hardhat, Truffle/Ganache, etc. to connect to the EVM compatible part of this smart contract chain. You can also utilise the <a href="https://wiki.iota.org/smart-contracts/guide/chains_and_nodes/wasp-cli" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">wasp-cli</a> command to interact with the chain outside of EVM.In order to connect to the test chain with MetaMask log-in to your Metamask account, go to Settings, Networks, and click the Add Network button. Enter the following details there:Network name: Shimmer EVM TestchainNetwork RPC URL:<a href="https://api.sc.testnet.shimmer.network/chain/rms1pzc5j8hq7ahgw6h9mn3jaq9wuv3zp0e2lxydj9a5f6yuvqhsvleyyym9f4z/evm/jsonrpc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://api.sc.testnet.shimmer.network/chain/rms1pzc5j8hq7ahgw6h9mn3jaq9wuv3zp0e2lxydj9a5f6yuvqhsvleyyym9f4z/evm/jsonrpc</a>Chain ID: 1076Currency Symbol: SMRBlock Explorer URL: &lt;empty&gt;You should now be connected to the test chain and you will be able to request some Shimmer beta network tokens directly from a <a href="https://deposit.sc.testnet.shimmer.network/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">special faucet</a> we created, allowing you to pay for gas on the smart contract test chain. We also made a special dApp that allows you to <a href="https://withdraw.sc.testnet.shimmer.network/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">withdraw</a> your tokens from our test chain to a regular Shimmer beta network address. If you are building smart contracts and would like to access native assets or interact outside of the EVM part of this chain you can directly interact with our <a href="https://wiki.iota.org/smart-contracts/guide/evm/magic" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Magic EVM Contract</a> to do so.If you’d like to use wasp-cli with this chain please configure it as follows:<blockquote>wasp-cli set l1.apiaddress https://api.hornet.sc.testnet.shimmer.network wasp-cli set l1.faucetaddress https://faucet.testnet.shimmer.network wasp-cli set chains.testchain rms1pzc5j8hq7ahgw6h9mn3jaq9wuv3zp0e2lxydj9a5f6yuvqhsvleyyym9f4z wasp-cli set chain testchain</blockquote><blockquote>Bash</blockquote><blockquote>Copy</blockquote>You will now be able to use wasp-cli to deposit Shimmer beta network tokens to your account on this chain and to deploy and interact with your Wasm based smart contracts. Please refer to <a href="https://wiki.iota.org/smart-contracts/overview" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">our documentation</a> for more information about working and interacting with ISC chains.With this new test-chain we are deprecating our old GoShimmer based test-chain which is now no longer supported.We are very excited to see the first applications pop-up on this chain and we are eagerly looking forward to all your feedback based on this experience. Please share your findings and thoughts with us using <a href="https://github.com/iotaledger/wasp/issues" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">GitHub Issues</a> and our <a href="https://discord.iota.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Discord</a>.

Shimmer Smart Contract Testnet Goes Live

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