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Set Up Your Workspace

Building on Substrate involves working with a flexible, modular blockchain framework. Unlike traditional blockchains, Substrate’s pallet-based architecture allows developers to create custom blockchains and integrate specialized features, which requires a development environment tailored to its complexities.

In this section, you'll explore tools and techniques that can help you achieve the following with a Substrate development environment:

  • Local environment setup - spin up a test environment without dealing with the complexity of configuring a Substrate node manually
  • Network interaction - connect to and interact with Tanssi and Tanssi-powered networks
  • Transaction simulation - test and simulate transactions on forked networks to evaluate changes before deploying
  • Debugging - use debugging tools to troubleshoot and analyze transaction flow, state transitions, and more in a controlled environment

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Chopsticks

Learn the basics of how to use Chopsticks to replay blocks, dissect state changes, test XCM interactions, and create a local fork of your Tanssi network.