Hardhat is a great tool for developing on solidity. Since Caduceus is a EVM compatible blockchain it is the perfect companion to run tests on your smart contracts. You can also write scripts to deploy your contract onto the the Caduceus Testnet. Remember you can get test tokens by going here. You can see more about Hardhat here

Easily deploy your contracts, run tests and debug Solidity code without dealing with live environments. Hardhat Network is a local Ethereum network designed for development.

Hardhat is the best choice for Solidity debugging. You get Solidity stack traces, console.log and explicit error messages when transactions fail.

Change anything you like. Even entire out-of-the-box tasks, or just parts of them. Flexible and customizable design, with little constraints.

Designed to make integrations easy, Hardhat allows you to keep using your existing tools while enabling deeper interoperability between them.

A tooling platform designed to be extended, Hardhat has all the utilities you need to address your project-specific needs.

Extend Hardhat with a composable ecosystem of plugins that add functionality and integrate your existing tools into a smooth workflow.

Keep your momentum going by making your development feedback loop up to 10x faster with Hardhat.

Catch mistakes before you even run your code by switching to a typed language. Hardhat provides full native support for TypeScript.

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