Looking for getting started with building on Cardano? Opshin is a simple programming language for Smart Contracts based on python. It lets you compile, build and deploy Smart Contracts in minutes. OpShin provides you with additional tooling to get started right away.

Dive right into the community discussions on opshins discussions page. Share your ideas, post questions and become part of the community.

You can also chat with other developers in the OpShin Den, our welcoming discord community.

We also collect community created resources concerning OpShin in the awesome-opshin repository.

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• The opshin-book provides you with a gentle introduction to developing smart contracts using Python and OpShin.
• This webinar hosted together with Emurgo Academy that gives a simple overview over the language and toolchain OpShin.
• The opshin-pioneer-program contains a host of educational example smart contracts and provides a gentle introduction to writing contracts with opshin.

Further, we provide interactive tools to interact with OpShin and the underlying UPLC

• The playground allows you to build small smart contracts from the comfort of your browser
• The uplc-viewer converts between different smart contract representations, allowing to inspect the lowest level of Cardano smart contracts

• The opshin-starter-kit lets you deploy on-chain smart contract transactions in minutes.
• The opshin repository contains the main tools for compiling and building contracts. It also contains a number of real world examples.
• awesome-opshin contains community created resources regarding development on OpShin

OpShin is based on Python and probably already supported by your favorite IDE! Get comfy and choose your weapons to get started.

This Github organization references all core projects related to opshin. More recommendations include

• plutus-bench, a comprehensive unified framework to compare the performance of Smart Contract languages
• uplc, a python package for manipulating Untyped Plutus Language Core
• plutonomy-cli, a general purpose smart contract optimizer

Follow us on Twitter @OpShinDev for updates and announcements regarding the journey of OpShin.

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