Edition Drop

Deploy a Smart Contract on Fantom

Avneesh Agarwal

Mar 10, 2023 • 4 min read

This guide will show you how to deploy any smart contract to the Fantom network.

By the end, you'll learn how to create a simple Edition Drop smart contract, deploy it to the Fantom Testnet, and mint an NFT on the smart contract.

Let's get started!

What is Fantom?

Fantom is a Layer 1 blockchain that uses an alternative consensus mechanism called Lachesis.

You can learn about Fantoms' Lachesis in detail on their FAQ Page.

In a nutshell, Fantom's aBFT (asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant) consensus mechanism is used to have faster transaction finality times
when compared to Ethereum without sacrificing security.

Projects such as SpookySwap in the De-Fi space are built on Fantom.

Create a smart contract on Fantom

To begin, head to the Contracts page in your thirdweb Dashboard and hit "Deploy new contract":

You will be taken to our Explore page — where you can browse smart contracts built by the top protocols in web3 and deploy them in just a few clicks!

Note: You can also use the thirdweb CLI to set up a smart contract environment by running the below command from your terminal:

npx thirdweb create contract

This will take you through an easy-to-follow flow of steps for you to create your contract. Learn more about this in our CLI guide.

Otherwise, let's get back to Explore:

Here, select your smart contract of choice. For this guide, we're going to use the Edition Drop (ERC1155) contract to create our NFT collection:

Set up your smart contract with an image, name, description, etc., and configure which wallet address will receive the funds from primary and secondary sales:

In the network/chain section select Fantom Opera or Fantom Testnet as you wish. For the sake of this guide, I am going to use Fantom Testnet

Once you have selected the network, click on deploy now. It will prompt you to switch your network to Fantom Testnet.

Click on the switch Wallet button and if you don't already have the network in your wallet it will prompt you to add the network and then switch to the network:

Add and switch to Fantom Testnet on your wallet

Now let's deploy the smart contract on the Fantom Testnet! But before that, we need testnet funds.

Get Fantom Testnet funds in your wallet

Once you have added the Fantom Testnet to your wallet. You can either navigate there directly click on "Get FTM from faucet" when you click Deploy Now:

This will take you to the Fantom faucet. Here, paste your wallet address and click on "Request Testnet FTM"

Paste in your wallet address and click on Request Testnet FTM

Once you have completed this process, you will have testnet funds in your wallet on Fantom Testnet, meaning you're now ready to deploy your smart contract!

Funds have arrived in your wallet on Fantom Testnet

Deploying the contract on Fantom

Now that you have your testnet funds, let's go back to the thirdweb Dashboard where we were building our Edition Drop contract.

We have already filled out the metadata so click on "Deploy Now" after selecting the chain. It will prompt a transaction, you have to approve that.

Confirm transaction to deploy contract on Avalanche Fuji Testnt

And you're done! You have just deployed to the Fantom Testnet.

Calling Smart Contract Functions

Let's see how we can use the smart contract by calling some functions on it, such as minting an NFT into our collection!

From the Explorer tab, you can view all of the available functions on your smart contract and execute them directly from your connected wallet:

Calling the Read name function from Explorer

Setting Up Our NFT Collection

In our example, we created an Edition drop smart contract, so we'll quickly set it up and mint our first NFT by performing the following steps:

Lazy mint some NFTs.
Configuring our claim conditions.
Mint an NFT from the drop!

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We won't go into too much detail about this process in this guide, check out our other Edition Drop Guides for more information!

Once we've set up our NFTs, we can click the Claim button in the NFTs tab to mint our first NFT, and voilà! We just minted an NFT on the Avalanche Fuji Testnet!

What's Next?

Now that you've deployed your smart contract, you can use our SDK to build a web3 application! Where users can connect their wallets and interact with the functions of your smart contracts. Learn more from our guide below:

Wrapping up

In this guide, you've learned how to create a simple Edition Drop smart contract, deploy it to the Fantom Testnet, and mint an NFT on the smart contract. We hope it was helpful!

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