Smart Contract Verification And Deploying Using Hardhat

Introduction

Verifying smart contracts on the blockchain is essential for transparency, security, and trust. It allows developers and users to inspect and interact with the smart contract’s source code. In this tutorial, we’ll utilize Hardhat, a powerful development environment for Ethereum.

Prerequisites

• Node.js installed


• An Ethereum account with a private key


• An API key from a service like Etherscan for contract verification

For this tutorial we will be using Arbitrum-Sepolia

Steps

### Create your project directory folder



In your project …

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