This document provides an overview of using the Hardhat development environment to build smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps) on Polygon. It explains that Hardhat facilitates compiling, testing, and debugging smart contracts while incorporating a local Polygon test network for deployment and debugging. The document then lists 3 tutorials that guide users through setting up their environment, creating a Hardhat project, writing a sample ERC-20 token contract and tests, and deploying to local and Polygon testnets. A basic understanding of JavaScript, terminals, Git, smart contracts, and Metamask is recommended.

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Set up your Blockchain environment
1.Overview
Welcome to our beginners guide to Polygon contracts and Blockchain dApp
development. This tutorial is aimed at hackathon participants who are getting setup to
quickly build something from scratch.
To orchestrate this process we're going to use Hardhat Tool, a development
environment that facilitates building on Polygon. It helps developers manage and
automate the recurring tasks that are inherent to the process of building smart
contracts and dApps, as well as easily introducing more functionality around this
workflow. This means compiling and testing at the very core.
Hardhat also comes built-in with Blockchain Network, a local Polygon network
designed for development. It allows you to deploy your contracts, run your tests and
debug your code.
In these tutorials below:
1.https://docs.alchemy.com/alchemy/tutorials/how-to-code-and-deploy-a-polygon-
smart-contract
2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM8AcSpIZGo
3. https://github.com/alchemyplatform/polygon-smart-contract-tutorial
they’ll guide you through:
 Setting up your Node.js environment for Polygon development
 Creating and configuring a Hardhat project
 The basics of a Solidity smart contract that implements a token
 Writing automated tests for your contract using Ethers.js and Waffle
 Debugging Solidity with console.log() using Hardhat Network
 Deploying your contract to Hardhat Network and Polygon testnets (Mumbai)
To follow this tutorial you should be able to:
 Write code in JavaScript
 Operate a terminal
 Use git
 Understand the basics of how smart contracts work
 Set up a Metamask wallet