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Sapphire is our official confidential ParaTime for smart contract development with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility.
- Confidential state, end-to-end encryption, confidential randomness
- Easy integration with EVM-based dApps, such as DeFi, NFT, Metaverse and crypto gaming
- Scalability: increased throughput of transactions
- Low-cost: 99%+ lower fees than Ethereum
- 6 second finality (1 block)
- Cross-chain bridges to enable cross-chain interoperability
If you are not bound to EVM and you wish to develop dApps with more fine-grained confidentiality, check out the Cipher ParaTime.
Develop and deploy a dApp on Sapphire:
- follow along with a video walkthrough via quickstart
- start with a working dApp demo
- explore showcase dApps deployed on Sapphire on the playground
Get to know the differences between Sapphire and Ethereum, and learn about the high level concepts of developing a confidential smart contract with our guide.
Take your existing dApp building knowledge and add Sapphire with our developer cheatsheet.
See crucial network information here.
Visit the faucet to obtain testnet tokens for development purposes.
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