EmpoorioChain is a powerful and flexible platform for building decentralized applications and services. Whether you are an experienced blockchain developer or just getting started, our comprehensive ecosystem of tools, SDKs, and documentation will help you bring your ideas to life. In this note, we will provide a guide for developers who want to start building on EmpoorioChain.

Getting Started with EmpoorioChain

To start building on EmpoorioChain, you will need to familiarize yourself with our core technologies and development environment. Here are the key steps to get started:

  1. Set up your development environment: Our documentation provides detailed instructions on how to set up your local development environment, including installing the necessary tools and dependencies.
  2. Explore the EmpoorioChain SDKs: We provide a comprehensive set of SDKs for JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, and Go, making it easy to interact with the EmpoorioChain network from your preferred programming language.
  3. Write Solidity, deploy to the Frontier EVM: Smart contracts on EmpoorioChain are EVM contracts. The Ethereum toolchain works unchanged — solc, Hardhat, Foundry, ethers.js, MetaMask — because the chain answers the same JSON-RPC. The one value you must get right is the chain id: 2026 (0x7ea): it goes inside the signature of every EVM transaction under EIP-155, so a wallet configured with another id produces signatures this chain rejects.
  4. Connect to the Testnet: Our public testnet allows you to experiment with EmpoorioChain and deploy your smart contracts in a live environment without using real funds.

Developer Resources

We are committed to providing our developer community with the resources and support they need to succeed. Here are some of the resources available to you:

  • Comprehensive Documentation: Our documentation website provides detailed information about the EmpoorioChain architecture, APIs, and SDKs, as well as tutorials and guides to help you get started.
  • Developer Community: Join our active and growing community of developers on Discord and Telegram to ask questions, share ideas, and collaborate on projects.
  • Grants and Funding: We offer a grants program to support innovative projects that are building on the EmpoorioChain ecosystem. If you have a great idea, we encourage you to apply for funding.

Why Build on EmpoorioChain?

EmpoorioChain offers a number of advantages for developers:

  • Blocks every 6 seconds, finality around 17: Aura authors, GRANDPA finalises, and the median finality measured on the public testnet is about 17 seconds. The network today is a public testnet with two validators — two validators tolerate zero failures, and there is no mainnet yet.
  • The Ethereum toolchain, unchanged: the Frontier EVM means you do not learn a new contract language, a new testing framework or a new wallet to ship on EmpoorioChain.
  • Flexibility: the runtime is 140 FRAME pallets assembled with Substrate. Logic that cannot be a contract — settlement for AI training, a storage market billed in bytes, decentralised identity — is a pallet, with its own storage and its own transaction types.
  • A Thriving Ecosystem: By building on EmpoorioChain, you become part of a vibrant and growing ecosystem of dApps, services, and users.

Conclusion

EmpoorioChain is more than just a blockchain; it is a platform for innovation and a community of builders. We are excited to see what you will create with the power of EmpoorioChain. Join us in building the decentralized future.

Building on EmpoorioChain: A Guide for Developers | empoorio