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Polkadot basics

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Dive into the Polkadot ecosystem!

You may be interested in what you can actually do with different technologies within the Polkadot ecosystem. Take a look at the different use cases below and navigate yourself through the materials to get a bigger picture.

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Who are part of the Polkadot ecosystem?

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Other useful resources

Below you’ll find resources that can help you guide your way - if you wanna go down the rabbit hole and dive even deeper for wikis and documentation or find the relevant Discord channels, this is where you’ll find plenty of information.

👷‍♀️Documentation

• Official Devhub Documentation - The entry point for learning about Substrate, including conceptual and reference material.
• Tutorials - Hands-on tutorials to learn everything needed to start building your own Substrate blockchain.
• How-to Guides - Step-by-step implementation guides of common patterns when developing with Substrate.
• Rustdocs - API reference documentation.
• Polkadot Wiki - Polkadot’s official documentation portal, covering everything you need to know about building and interacting with Polkadot.

🎨 Templates

• Substrate Node Template - A bare-bone Substrate node to build on.
• Substrate Front-end Template - A React app template for building front-ends for Substrate nodes.
• Parachain Node Template - A Cumulus-based Substrate node to build a parachain.

📚 Libraries

• Polkadot-js-api - Interact with Substrate nodes in Javascript.
• Subxt - Submit extrinsics to a node via RPC in Rust.
• Substrate-connect - A JS library and browser extension to run an in-browser light client for your application.
• Frontier - An Ethereum compatibility layer for Substrate chains.
• Cumulus - A set of tools for writing parachains.

💻 Primary GitHub Repositories

• Polkadot SDK

🛠️ Tooling

• Important and useful tooling can be found in the Substrate Documentation, located under Explore Tools.
• Archive - Index a chain’s block history into a database
• Sidecar - REST service to interact with Substrate nodes.
• Polkadot-launch - CLI tool to launch a Polkadot test network.
• Tx-wrapper-core - Create chain specific offline transaction generation libraries.
• Cargo-contract - Setup and deployment tool for developing smart contracts with ink!
• SubConnect - a solution helping to integrate Polkadot native wallets to dApps

👇 Useful Projects

• Polkadot-JS Apps UI - In-browser Substrate network wallet & more.
• Polkadot-JS Extension - Wallet as a browser extension
• Substrate Playground - Try out Substrate, right in your browser.

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