Quickstart
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welcome to the caduceus docs 🥳 let me get you started quickly caduceus is a fast, evm compatible blockchain dedicated to metaverse and gamefi you can read more about the technical details of the blockchain in the docid\ vxf2cdpf lqwcefjuih1x section if you are new to blockchain and the ethereum blockchain then i suggest you read our docid\ edcdutzh2zjivzsgnsm4g section users if you are a user and you wish to understand the wallets, d'apps and projects that you can use then check out our docid\ lxxaulynnihhtxrzhjdsk section metamask if you want to see how to connect your metamask then you can go directly to the docid 639ybrvkqr7jxbcdrjqo3 section developers as entioned caduceus is an evm compatible blockchain so you can use most of the ethereum tools that you are used to we recommend using docid\ klljb5dfdwruhjdd1nwhe , hence we have written a tutorial on how to connect caduceus testnet to your hardhat environment docid\ gn4jmkhyv0qym4buyldix docid\ yo3xls6dblqwb3ccb bk5 docid\ okkpz6mfw27jq brkvtbo api to see our full evm api with examples and code snippets then go to our api documentation here docid 71o ncoav3x7e2ft6cjor to briefly showcase our evm api you can copy this curl to get the latest block number of the chain just like any other evm chain try paste this in your terminal and see what you get! 😁 curl location g request post 'https //mainnet block caduceus foundation/' \\ \ header 'accept application/json' \\ \ header 'content type application/json' \\ \ data raw '{ 	"jsonrpc" "2 0", 	"method" "eth blocknumber", 	"params" \[], 	"id" 83 }' https //mainnet block caduceus foundation is our mainnet rpc endpoint but you can see all the rpc endpoints and explorers and chainid's by going to docid\ gn4jmkhyv0qym4buyldix if you are looking for caduceus testnet tokens then you can go here docid\ yo3xls6dblqwb3ccb bk5 evm tools check out our docid\ bmnuerlmuylp6z72t35fb section to see how to use docid 7o3j2nkgbiqcun sdxfv , docid\ fhr1imvl34spg4t4nzlt , docid 2qgptulubbai5olajha3x (which is our remix like editor), docid\ ulyiqmogt2n14pcxdolo0 , and other tutorials that will help you bootstrap your development on caduceus 🚀 nodes if you are interested in running a node then please visit the docid\ xkjpoirc0mvsoe3by1b5i section this will teach you how to set up your own node on mainnet