VeChain Hardhat Template

A complete development environment template for building smart contracts on VeChain using Hardhat. This template comes pre-configured with everything you need to start developing, testing, and deploying smart contracts on VeChain networks.

Features

• ✅ Hardhat configuration for VeChain networks (Solo, Testnet, Mainnet)
• 🐳 Thor-Solo instance for local development
• 📦 Upgradeable smart contracts templates
• 🧪 Comprehensive test suite setup
• 🔧 Deploy and upgrade scripts
• 🎭 Mock contracts for common VeChain contracts

Prerequisites

• Node.js v20 (version specified in .nvmrc)
• Yarn or npm
• Docker (for running Thor-Solo)

Installation

1. Install dependencies:

yarn install

2. Create your environment file:

cp .env.example .env

Usage

Local Development

1. Start the Thor-Solo instance:

yarn start-solo

Compile

yarn compile

Deploy

yarn deploy:solo

or

yarn deploy:testnet

or

yarn deploy:mainnet

Verify (Optional)

Optionally verify your smart contracts on Sourcify. This allows 3rd to view and independently verify all of the following:

• Source code
• Metadata
• Contract ABI
• Contract Bytecode
• Contract transaction ID

After deploying SimpleStorage, the console will print the address of the deployed contract. You can verify the contract on sourcify.eth:

yarn hardhat verify --network vechain_testnet 0x98307db87474fc30d6e022e2b31f384b134c2c2a

Note: Hardhat throws an error when verifying contracts on VeChain networks. This error can be ignored as the contract is still verified on Sourcify. See an example here

Test

yarn test

or to generate a coverage report:

yarn test:coverage:solidity

Will generate the coverage report in the coverage folder, open the index.html file in your browser to see the report.

Generate Docs

yarn generate-docs

Will generate the docs in the docs folder.

Warning

This template is using the @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable v5.0.2 and @openzeppelin/contracts v5.0.2 in order to be compatible with the VeChain Solidity compiler version of 0.8.20.