Sapphire ParaTime
Sapphire is our official confidential ParaTime for smart contract development with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility.
- Confidential state, end-to-end encryption, confidential randomness
- Easy integration with EVM-based dApps, such as DeFi, NFT, Metaverse and crypto gaming
- Scalability: increased throughput of transactions
- Low-cost: 99%+ lower fees than Ethereum
- 6 second finality (1 block)
- Cross-chain bridges to enable cross-chain interoperability
If you are not bound to EVM and you wish to develop dApps with more fine-grained confidentiality, check out the Cipher ParaTime.
Getting Started
Develop and deploy a dApp on Sapphire:
- follow along with a video walkthrough via quickstart
- start with a working dApp demo
- explore showcase dApps deployed on Sapphire on the playground
Understanding EVM compatibility
Get to know the differences between Sapphire and Ethereum, and learn about the high level concepts of developing a confidential smart contract with our guide.
Building on Sapphire
Take your existing dApp building knowledge and add Sapphire with our developer cheatsheet.
Network Information
See crucial network information here.
Faucet
Visit the faucet to obtain testnet tokens for development purposes.
See also
🗃️ Manage your Tokens
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📄️ ParaTime Node
These instructions are for setting up a ParaTime node which participates in one or more ParaTime compute committees. If you want to run a ParaTime client node instead, see the instructions for running a ParaTime client node. If you want to run a validator node instead, see the instructions for running a validator node. Similarly, if you want to run a non-validator node instead, see the instructions for running a non-validator node.
📄️ ParaTime Client Node
These instructions are for setting up a ParaTime client node which only observes ParaTime activity and can submit transactions. If you want to run a ParaTime node instead, see the instructions for running a ParaTime node. Similarly, if you want to run a validator or a non-validator node instead, see the instructions for running a validator node or instructions for running a non-validator node.
📄️ Web3 Gateway
Web3 gateway for Emerald and Sapphire ParaTimes
🗃️ Emerald
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🗃️ Cipher
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