thirdweb Engine
Engine is a backend HTTP server that calls smart contracts with your managed backend wallets.
Read the documentation for features, setup, configuration, guides, and references.
Features
- Managed backend wallets
- Contract calls and deployments (all EVM blockchains + private subnets)
- Parallel transactions with retries
- Account abstraction with session tokens
- Gasless transactions
- Wallet and contract webhooks
- And much more!
Quickstart
- Install Docker.
- Run Postgres.
docker run -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -d postgres
- Run Engine.
docker run \ -e ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD="<encryption_password>" \ -e THIRDWEB_API_SECRET_KEY="<thirdweb_secret_key>" \ -e ADMIN_WALLET_ADDRESS="<admin_wallet_address>" \ -e POSTGRES_CONNECTION_URL="postgresql://postgres:postgres@host.docker.internal:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable" \ -e ENABLE_HTTPS=true \ -p 3005:3005 \ --pull=always \ --cpus="0.5" \ thirdweb/engine:latest
- Navigate to the Engine dashboard.
- CORS error? Load https://localhost:3005 in your browser first.
- Create or import a local wallet.
Learn more: Getting Started
Production: Deploy Postgres and Engine to your cloud provider. Consider creating KMS backend wallets.
Contributing
We welcome external contributions! See [how to contribute to thirdweb repos]. Please try to follow the existing code style and conventions.
Get in touch
- Support: Join the Discord
- Twitter: @thirdweb
- Report a vulnerability: security@thirdweb.com