Setting Up Your Environment

Environment configuration instructions to get started developing on Secret Network.

Secret Contracts are written using the CosmWasm framework. CosmWasm contracts are written in Rust, which is later compiled to WebAssembly (or WASM for short). To write our first Secret Contract, we need to set up a development environment with all of the tools required so that you can upload, instantiate, and execute your smart contracts.

For a step-by-step Secret Network environment configuration video tutorial, follow along here 🎥. Otherwise, continue reading!

Install Requirements

To follow along with the guide, we will be using git, make, rust, and docker.

Linux/WSL

sudo apt-get install git make

MacOS

Windows

Install Rust

Linux/WSL

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

MacOS

Windows (PowerShell)

Windows (GUI)

Add WASM build target

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Having Trouble? You might need to restart your terminal, or run a command like:

source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

After installing Rust to configure the current shell

Install Cargo Generate

Cargo generate is the tool you'll use to create a smart contract project. Learn more about cargo-generate here.

cargo install cargo-generate --features vendored-openssl

Install Docker

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications.

Install SecretCLI

SecretCLI is a command-line tool that lets us interact with the Secret Network blockchain. It is used to send and query data as well as manage user keys and wallets.

Linux

wget https://github.com/scrtlabs/SecretNetwork/releases/latest/download/secretcli-Linux
chmod +x secretcli-Linux
sudo mv secretcli-Linux /usr/local/bin/secretcli

Windows (PowerShell)

MacOS (Intel)

MacOS (M1)

For a more detailed and in-depth guide on SecretCLI installation and usage, check out the documentation here.

Now it's time to learn how to compile and deploy your first smart contract 🎉