Guides

These guides are organized around the jobs people actually come here to do: create an account, get funds, open Products, publish a Product, use platform services, and deploy contracts on the Polkadot Products Devnet.

For users

Use these guides when you want to try the Polkadot app or open Products through the web gateway at dev-dot.li.

• Create an account & get funds — set up a self-custodial account and get the funds needed for Devnet flows.
• Get & use CASH — understand the balance shown in the app and send it to another user.
• Messaging & calls — chat and call other users.
• Username & proof of personhood — claim a People Chain username and establish personhood.
• Discover & open apps — find apps in Browse and open them by their .dot domain.

For developers

Use these guides when you are building a Product for the app. You will mostly work with a static web app, the Product SDK, and a few CLIs:

Choosing a network

This Devnet is the devnet preset: pad and dotns take --env devnet, CDM takes -n devnet. See Networks & endpoints.

• Build & Publish Applications — scaffold an app on the Product SDK and publish it with the pad deploy CLI.
• Register a .dot domain — reserve and configure a DotNS name with the @polkadot-community-foundation/dotns-cli.
• Deploy & register contracts — deploy PolkaVM contracts and register them in a CDM manifest with the cdm CLI.
• Use platform services from the SDK — call chain, contract, cloud-storage, identity, and signing APIs from @parity/product-sdk.
• List your app in Browse — make your app discoverable in the Browse directory.

Learn more

• Getting started for developers
• Architecture
• Reference