Builder's Portal
Welcome to the builders section of the Polkadot wiki.
Here you will be able to find the most up-to-date information on the status of the development tools in the Polkadot ecosystem. We are always adding new tools and frameworks as we learn about them so if you are working on something that should be included please reach out to us on Riot.
This section of the wiki is divided into the following parts:
Development Guide
- Starter's Guide - High level overview on choosing a parachain, parathread, or smart contract for your project and how to get started.
- Development Roadmap - Tracker for the development state of the most important tools.
- Parachain Development Kits - PDKs are toolkits for building parachains and parathreads.
- Smart Contracts - Smart contracts are fragments of custom logic that can be deployed to a live chain.
Integration Guide
This section is for service providers like wallets or node operators who want to learn how to integrate Polkadot into their systems.
- Polkadot Protocol Information - General information and F.A.Q.s about the Polkadot protocol, e.g. address formats.
- Node Management - A short overview of the Parity Polkadot client and the most relevant options/flags for infrastructure providers.
- Node Interaction - Learn how to interact with your node via RPC.
- Transaction Construction and Signing - Learn the transaction format for Polkadot and how to construct and sign transactions offline.
Tools
- Tools - Maintained list of tools.
- Subkey - Command line utility for generating and inspecting key pairs.
Resources
- Examples - Example projects sourced from the community -- see what others are building.
Grants
- Grants - A list of all Polkadot-related projects given grants by the Web3 Foundation.
PSPs
Polkadot Standards Proposals (PSPs) are standards for the Polkadot ecosystem.
- PSP GitHub Repository - Read, create, or discuss standards and proposals.