Substrate is an extensible blockchain development framework. Frontier is a set of modules to build an Ethereum-compatible blockchain with Substrate. Moonbeam is a Polkadot parachain built with Substrate and Frontier.
This tutorial explains the concepts and demonstrates the steps necessary to build an Ethereum-compatible chain using Frontier.
This tutorial is written with ❤ by the Moonbeam team, and made public in hopes that it will be useful.
The software being described here changes quickly and it is likely that the tutorial will go stale and need routine maintenance from time to time. The Moonbeam team makes no commitment to do that maintenance, but welcomes external contributions.
If you do encounter issues when following this tutorial, please file a bug on github.
The Substrate team offers many excellent learning resources at https://substrate.dev . Before attempting this workshop, you should be familiar with most of the concepts listed below. You should complete at least three Substrate tutorials before attempting this workshop.
- Launching a Substrate chain
- Submitting transactions
- Adding, Removing, and configuring pallets in a runtime
- Ethereum and EVM basics
- Pallet design
Additional supplemental learning resources are recommended throughout the workshop.
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