Getting Started


Getting Started

This is a short introduction to zksync-ethers SDK, but covers many of the most common operations that developers require and provides a starting point for those newer to zkSync Era.

Getting zksync-ethers

Prerequisites

In order to install SDK for zkSync Era, run the command below in your terminal.

yarn add zksync-ethers@5
yarn add ethers@5 # ethers is a peer dependency of zksync-ethers

Overview

While most of the existing SDKs should work out of the box, deploying smart contracts or using unique zkSync features, like account abstraction, requires providing additional fields to those that Ethereum transactions have by default.

To begin, it is useful to have a basic understanding of the types of objects available and what they are responsible for, at a high level:

  • Provider provides connection to the zkSync Era blockchain, which allows querying the blockchain state, such as account, block or transaction details, querying event logs or evaluating read-only code using call. Additionally, the client facilitates writing to the blockchain by sending transactions.
  • Wallet wraps all operations that interact with an account. An account generally has a private key, which can be used to sign a variety of types of payloads. It provides easy usage of the most common features.

Examples

The following examples could be easily run by writing the code snippets in a file and executing them as follows:

npx ts-node src/zksync.ts

Connect to the zkSync Era network:

import { Provider, utils, types } from "zksync-ethers";
import { ethers } from "ethers";

const provider = Provider.getDefaultProvider(types.Network.Sepolia);
const ethProvider = ethers.getDefaultProvider("sepolia");

Get the network (helper function toJSON):

console.log(`Network: ${toJSON(await provider.getNetwork())}`);

Get the latest block number:

console.log(`Block number: ${await provider.getBlockNumber()}`);

Get the block by hash (helper function toJSON):

console.log(`Block: ${toJSON(await provider.getBlock("b472c070c9e121ba42702f6c322b7b266e287a4d8b5fa426ed265b105430c397", true))}`);

Get the transaction by hash (helper function toJSON):

console.log(`Block: ${toJSON(await provider.getTransaction("0x9af27afed9a4dd018c0625ea1368afb8ba08e4cfb69b3e76dfb8521c8a87ecfc"))}`);