Before You Start

Kaia Networks

• Kairos testnet
• Mainnet

Endpoint Node

• Your Endpoint Node is needed to connect to the Kaia network and to issue an API call or send a transaction.
• ken is a Kaia Endpoint Node binary. ken exposes two interfaces, a command-line interface and the JSON-RPC APIs. ken runs on Linux and MacOS.
• ken CLI comes with several utility and node management functions.

Smart Contract Development

• Kaia Plugin for Remix - Kaia Plugin for Remix, a browser-based compiler and IDE.
• Truffle - An open-source tool for developing smart contracts in Solidity.
• Hardhat - A development environment for smart contracts and dApps.
• Foundry - Foundry is a smart contract development toolchain.
• Thirdweb - Thirdweb is a complete web3 development framework that provides services to build, manage, and analyze web3 applications.

Kaia SDKs

• caver-js : A JavaScript library that implements the Kaia JSON-RPC APIs.
• caver-java : A Java library that implements the Kaia JSON-RPC APIs.

Kaia Toolkits

• Kaiascope - A block and transaction explorer.
• Kaia Wallet - A browser extension wallet for the Kaia Network.
• Kaia Contracts Wizard - An interactive generator to bootstrap your smart contract and learn about Kaia Contracts.