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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
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
Get to know the differences between Sapphire and Ethereum, and learn about the high level Concepts of developing dApps.
Take your existing dApp building knowledge and add Sapphire with our developer cheatsheet or visit the [Develop on Sapphire] chapter.
Check out the RPC endpoints, block explorers and indexers at Network Information.
Visit the faucet to obtain testnet tokens for development purposes.
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