Quick start tutorial (Hardhat)

This tutorial guides you to start quickly with Zama’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology for building confidential smart contracts.

What You’ll Learn

In about 30 minutes, you'll go from a basic Solidity contract to a fully confidential one using FHEVM. Here's what you'll do:

1. Set up your development environment

2. Write a simple Solidity smart contract

3. Convert it into an FHEVM-compatible confidential contract

4. Test your FHEVM-compatible confidential contract

Prerequisite

• A basic understanding of Solidity library and Ethereum.

• Some familiarity with Hardhat.

About Hardhat

Hardhat is a development environment for compiling, deploying, testing, and debugging Ethereum smart contracts. It’s widely used in the Ethereum ecosystem.

In this tutorial, we'll introduce the FHEVM hardhat template that provides an easy way to use FHEVM.