Deploy with Hardhat V3

This guide shows you how to deploy contracts from a Hardhat V3 project onto your Stagenet.

You do not need to change your contracts or your scripts. Just add a network entry pointing at your Stagenet’s RPC URL.

Prerequisites

• A Hardhat V3 project with a deployment script or Ignition module
• A funded deployer wallet — generate one with contract.dev generate-wallet, or fund an existing address with the Faucet

Add your Stagenet as a network

Copy your Stagenet’s RPC URL from its dashboard and add a stagenet entry under networks in your hardhat.config.{js,ts}:

export default defineConfig({
  networks: {
    stagenet: {
      type: "http",
      chainType: "l1",
      url: "<YOUR_STAGENET_RPC_URL>",
      accounts: ["<YOUR_FUNDED_PRIVATE_KEY>"],
    },
  },
});

Deploy contracts

npx hardhat run scripts/deploy.ts --network stagenet

Or use Ignition:

npx hardhat ignition deploy ignition/modules/MyModule.ts --network stagenet --build-profile default

Pass --build-profile default with Ignition if you want automatic dashboards from pushed contracts — Ignition’s optimised default profile strips the metadata needed to match pushed bytecode.

Next steps

To get an automatic dashboard for each deployment, push your compiled contracts:

contract.dev push-contracts

Deployments matching pushed bytecode are detected and get dashboards automatically. See Pushing Contracts.