lesson-2_Deployer account creation

Deployer account

⛵ Ship to a testnet

Next we want to take our smart contract and deploy it to a testnet! At the time this workshop was written, The Graph supports many testnets but for this example we will use sepolia.

If you need some testnet funds you can try the following faucets:

Ethereum Sepolia Faucet - Alchemy

✅ Create a deployer account

yarn run generate

You should see the following saved to your hardhats environment variable file

👛 Generating new Wallet
📄 Private Key saved to packages/hardhat/.env file

✅ Fund the account

yarn account

This should display your public address along with a fancy QR code. And balances?! ? Woooowwwww that is slick!

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Public address: 0x87f00B2c39F97CD00BC6d09777BC4327aCA39180

-- localhost -- 📡
   balance: 0
   nonce: 0

Send over some testnet ETH from the chain of your choice. I would suggest sepolia as its fairly easy to get some testnet ETH from various sources. In the output below you can see I now have a sepolia balance.