README.md

Acala EVM Hacker Guide

Start Here

• Join Acala Official Discord to explore DeFi on Polkadot, for product and technical questions
• Watch the webinar: Deploying your Ethereum Project on Polkadot & Acala

Resources

What is Polkadot

Polkadot is a sharded, multichain network founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, the co-founder and CTO of Ethereum, creator of EVM and Solidity programming language. Polkadot is a metaprotocol that is highly scalable and cross-chain interoperable; chains connected to Polkadot like Acala would share Polkadot's PoS network security from day one of launch.

What is Acala

Acala is a cross-chain DeFi Hub and de facto stablecoin platform for Polkadot. It’s also a landing pad for Ethereum DeFi Dapps to get access to the Polkadot ecosystem and aggregated cross-chain liquidity like BTC. In terms of core offerings, Acala provides a set of DeFi products and primitives: multi-collateralized stablecoin using Bitcoin, DOT & other assets, a staking derivative Liquid DOT (LDOT) allowing users to stake while participating in other yield earning DeFi activities at the same time, and also a DeX that provides cross-chain unified liquidity.

Acala EVM

Acala is also the gateway for Ethereum Apps to get access to the Polkadot ecosystem, making cross-chain liquidity and protocols composable. Acala EVM is one module on the Acala Network. Acala EVM enables Solidity contracts to be deployed on Acala/Polkadot with minimum changes. It also offers many distinct features such "bring your own gas" (paying fees in any tokens like a stablecoin), and there’s an on-chain automatic scheduler that enables use cases like subscription and recurring payments etc.

Product Resources

• Acala Overview: Cross-chain DeFi Hub for Polkadot and beyond (Watch)
• Why Acala EVM

Dev Resources

Develop & Deploy Contracts

• Deploy Contracts on Acala EVM
  • Watch Live Coding: Deploy Uniswap Contracts, Recurring Payment Contracts.
    • Also available on Youtube here
  • Get started here
  • Download presentation slides here
• Build a DApp on Polkadot using Acala EVM with On-chain Automatic Scheduler
  • Watch Live Coding here
  • Tutorial here
• Set up EVM Accounts
• Use the On-chain Scheduler Contract
• Use Acala Oracle Feeds
• Use Native & Cross-chain Tokens such as BTC and DOTs
• Example code: https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/evm-examples

Build & Deployment Tools

• Waffle: https://getwaffle.io
• Remix: http://remix.ethereum.org
• EVM Playground: https://evm.acala.network
• Acala EVM (bodhi.js): https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/bodhi.js

Optional

• Try out Acala DApp

Communication Channels

Social Channels

• Acala Homepage
• Twitter
• Discord
• Acala Newsletter