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Version: v3.0.0-nightly.20250927

Developing Smart Contracts

Aztec.nr is the smart contract development framework for Aztec. It is a set of utilities that help you write Noir programs to deploy on the Aztec network.

Contract Development​

Prerequisites​

Flow​

  1. Write your contract and specify your contract dependencies. Every contract written for Aztec will have aztec-nr as a dependency. Add it to your Nargo.toml with
# Nargo.toml
[dependencies]
aztec = { git="https://github.com/AztecProtocol/aztec-packages/", tag="v3.0.0-nightly.20250927", directory="noir-projects/smart-contracts/aztec" }
  1. Profile the private functions in your contract to get a sense of how long generating client side proofs will take
  2. Write unit tests directly in Noir and end-to-end tests with TypeScript
  3. Compile your contract
  4. Deploy your contract with Aztec.js

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