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Polkadot's ink! to write smart contracts.
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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
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What it is
Polkadot's ink! to write smart contracts.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month3 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2021-07-11 08:08:44 UTC to 2023-03-13 16:31:14 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2021 | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2021 | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2021 | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2022 | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2022 | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2022 | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2022 | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2022 | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2022 | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2022 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2022 | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2022 | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2022 | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2022 | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2023 | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2023 | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesLess than you think. Having some general ideal about the main asset classes and how finance works is useful but don't feel like you need a CFA or anything. Same goes for game theory, helpful especially on the protocol design side of things but don't feel like you need to be an expert to get started.
More useful coming from webdev would be good solidity [1] skills. There is a real shortage currently. Most general engineering practice carries over. Threat modelling is useful and more generally having a good understand about security. You should know about unit tests, code coverage and how they fit into building robust code.
In term of tools and frameworks. Hardhat [2] in my experience is a little nicer to use than truffle [3] but both help loads. Knowing how to use the Openzeppelin [4] contracts would be very handy. Waffle [5] for testing i
Read the rest
s helpful. Understanding about ERC-20 [6], ERC-721 [7] and ERC-1155 [8].
Cryptozombies [9] is a decent tutorial to get you started. Rust is also useful to know for Polkadot [10] (for ink! [11]) and other chains. The DeFi developer [12] roadmap seems decent for more resources.
[1] https://soliditylang.org/
[2] https://hardhat.org/
[3] https://www.trufflesuite.com/
[4] https://openzeppelin.com/contracts/
[5] https://getwaffle.io/
[6] https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-20
[7] https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721
[8] https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1155
[9] https://cryptozombies.io/
[10] https://polkadot.network/
[11] https://github.com/paritytech/ink
[12] https://github.com/OffcierCia/DeFi-Developer-Road-Map
There's also Parity's "ink!" for writing smart contracts: https://github.com/paritytech/ink
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