Fantom utilizes the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) in the backend. Smart contracts are written in Solidity and they can function on Fantom as they do on Ethereum.

To deploy a smart contract, you send a Fantom transaction containing your bytecode without specifying any recipients.

After the contract is deployed, it will be available to all users of the Fantom network. Smart contracts have a Fantom address like other accounts.

Requirements

• Bytecode (compiled code) of your smart contract

• FTM for gas costs

• Deployment script/plugin

• Access to a Fantom node, either by running your own node or API access to a node.

Additional resources

• ​Compiling​

• ​Deploying a smart contract on Ethereum​

Tools

• ​Truffle: Development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for blockchains using the EVM

• ​Remix: IDE that’s used to write, compile, debug & deploy Solidity code ll in your browser.

• ​Solidity: Solidity is an object-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts.

• ​OpenZeppelin: OpenZeppelin Contracts helps you minimize risk by using battle-tested libraries of smart contracts for Ethereum and other blockchains.