# Smart Contract Guides

### Smart Contracts <a href="#smart-contracts" id="smart-contracts"></a>

Creditcoin is a Substrate-based chain like its sibling CC Enterprise, but it includes an EVM-compatible layer called Frontier. This allows users to run EVM smart contracts natively on Creditcoin and also provides the same RPC endpoints an EVM chain would to support tools and wallets such as MetaMask, Remix, Hardhat & Foundry.

Smart contracts are self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement directly written into code. On the Creditcoin blockchain, these contracts are commonly written in a programming language called Solidity and are executed on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) included in the Creditcoin runtime.

The EVM provides a secure and deterministic execution environment for smart contracts. Every node on the Creditcoin network runs a copy of the EVM, ensuring that smart contracts behave consistently across all nodes.

### Start developing on Creditcoin <a href="#start-developing-on-creditcoin" id="start-developing-on-creditcoin"></a>

* [Connecting local node to Metamask](/wallets/how-to-connect-your-wallet-to-creditcoin/metamask.md)
* [EVM accounts & wallets](/wallets/advanced/substrate-and-evm-accounts.md)
* [Creditcoin endpoints](/smart-contract-guides/creditcoin-endpoints.md)
* [Deploying contracts with Remix](/smart-contract-guides/deploying-contracts-with-remix.md)
* [Hardhat Smart Contract Development](/smart-contract-guides/hardhat-smart-contract-development.md)


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