Here are 10 of the most popular Web 3.0 tools and how they fit into dApp development workflows.
- Alchemy
Alchemy is a Web 3.0 development platform for connecting dApps to blockchains. It includes tools for NFTs, DeFi, wallets, gaming, and integrating Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 apps. It provides a complete developer platform supporting infrastructure, products and debugging.
- Casper
Casper is a smart contract platform that supports popular Web 2.0 development languages like Rust and WebAssembly. It includes tools that help update smart contracts with bug fixes as well as new features and functionality. It is focused on enterprise use cases to help organizations adopt software development best practices, such as continuous integration and delivery for blockchain apps.
- Chainlink
Chainlink helps developers implement decentralized blockchain oracles on the Ethereum platform. This capability helps facilitate data exchange with smart contracts that run on the Ethereum blockchain. Key features include support for reliable tamper-proof networks, connection via common APIs and pre-built oracles for various use case.
- Chainstack
Chainstack provides a complete set of tools to build, run and scale blockchain apps. It supports all the most popular blockchains and sidechains. It also includes various primitives to help create NFTs and deploy dApps that use decentralized blockchain storage platforms like IPFS. Network management and operations tools help scale blockchain infrastructure for large deployments.
- Ethernal
Ethernal is an open source blockchain explorer that helps automatically synchronize apps with smart contracts running on various blockchain platforms. Contract integration capabilities also enable developers to write code that interacts with smart contracts. In addition, Ethernal provides multiple tools for instrumenting smart contract code for transaction tracing and for decoding variables used in dApps. It can also integrate with other popular tools like Hardhat.