Setup a Devnet

This section shows you how to install, deploy and manage a private Blockchain network. The purpose of a Blockchain network is to deploy Smart Contracts and execute various transactions. Data from the Blockchain can be accessed using a web or mobile application. The deployment and deployment of a Smart Contract and the use of a Web App will be covered in following sections.

With this option you will get an in depth learning since you deploy every component from scratch.

While there is still a cost to execute transactions, you can distribute Ether to participants free of cost and without limits.

The other value of setting up your own Devnet is that you can actually deploy a node for each participant, even on different remote machines, which replicates a Blockchain network accurately. Using Sepolia, you can only create participant accounts thus simulating a node.

The challenge with this option is that setting up and running a Devnet requires a high level of technical skill and a reasonably powerful computer (although most modern computers have the required computing capacity) to run the node.