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Solana Smart Contract Deployment and Testing Guide

This guide explains how to deploy and test the smart contract on a local Solana testnet.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed on your system:

1. Rust and Cargo
2. Anchor CLI
3. Solana CLI

Setup

Start a Local Solana Test Validator

Open a terminal and start the Solana test validator: solana-test-validator

In a new terminal window, configure Solana to use the local testnet using the line solana config set --url http://127.0.0.1:8899

Build the smart contract using Anchor: anchor build

Deploy the smart contract to the local testnet: anchor deploy

Run the tests to ensure the smart contract works correctly: anchor test