Focus on your development.
Substrate helps you develop your blockchain fast so that you can focus on your expertise while it handles the rest.
Runtime Development
Learn how to build a custom blockchain using Substrate.
Front-End Development
Learn how to build interactive user experiences with Polkadot-JS.
Smart Contract Development
Learn how to build Wasm smart contracts with ink!.
What is Substrate
Everything you need to build a blockchain.
Substrate comes with p2p networking, consensus algorithms, and cryptographic libraries out-of-the-box, for free.
Fast and efficient database
Modular P2P networking stack in libp2p
Hot-swappable consensus layer
Customizable transaction queue management system
Rich framework for composing runtime logic.
Mobile light client support
Smart contract ready
Substrate has a Wasm smart contract platform that you can use out of the box. Because Substrate uses Wasm, you can build your smart contracts using any compatible language. We have built ink!, a Rust-based eDSL for this purpose.
Learn more about ink!
(Almost) production ready
Substrate is the backbone that powers Polkadot, a next generation, heterogeneous, multi-chain network. Most 'parachains' that will connect to this network are also built on Substrate. Substrate is undergoing a security audit in preparation for a 2020 release of the Polkadot network.
Learn more about PolkadotLearning Substrate
More ways to learn Substrate.
Substrate Seminar
Substrate Seminar is an open collaborative learning call where we learn about Substrate together.
Join the learning groupSubstrate Playground
Start hacking your substrate runtime in a web based VSCode like IDE, with full terminal support.
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