First thing you want to do is to make sure you have the latest version of the SDK installed. Then, get yourself an æternity account key par to get some Æ to use on the testnet. The easiest way to do this is to use the æternity CLI.

NFTs are taking over. Is that good for the blockchain space? Not a simple question to answer — it’s too early to tell, and as with every new and wildly popular phenomenon, it might have some bad effects along the way. However, one thing is certain: NFTs are here to stay . People denying their usefulness will probably have to eat their words in the near future when NFTs have become the basis of the ticketing business, a standard element of the gaming and entertainment industries, real estate, digital identity, intellectual property, and who knows what else.

There’s been a lot of hardship to overcome in the last couple of years, both in our everyday lives, and in the blockchain and crypto space, but æternity and its community have persevered. Now, exactly 3 years after the æternity mainnet was launched, on November 2th 2018 with the Roma Release, the future looks bright.

Quick recap: a contract is defined in Sophia by giving it a capitalized name; a state record is defined to hold all of the contract state varibles; Init function — remember to initialize all state variables with some data. Deploying a contract runs the init function.