Running a Local Development Environment
This tutorial teaches you how to setup and run a local development environment of the entire OP Mainnet system.
What is this?
A development environment is a local installation of the entire OP Mainnet system. Our default development environment includes both L1 and L2 development nodes. Running the OP Mainnet environment locally is a great way to test your code and see how your contracts will behave on OP Mainnet before you graduate to a testnet deployment (and eventually a mainnet deployment).
Alternatively, you can get a hosted development node from any of these providers.
Do I need this?
We generally recommend using the local development environment if your application falls into one of the following categories:
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You're building contracts on both OP Mainnet and Ethereum that need to interact with one another. The local development environment is a great way to quickly test interactions between L1 and L2. The OP Mainnet and test networks have a communication delay between L1 and L2 that can make testing slow during the early stages of development.
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You're building an application that might be subject to one of the few differences between Ethereum and OP Mainnet. Although OP Mainnet is EVM equivalent (opens in a new tab), it's not exactly the same as Ethereum. If you're building an application that might be subject to one of these differences, you should use the local development environment to double check that everything is running as expected. You might otherwise have unexpected issues when you move to testnet. We strongly recommend reviewing these differences carefully to see if you might fall into this category.
However, not everyone will need to use the local development environment. OP Mainnet is EVM equivalent (opens in a new tab), which means that OP Mainnet looks almost exactly like Ethereum under the hood. If you don't fall into one of the above categories, you can probably get away with simply relying on existing testing tools like Foundry or Hardhat. If you don't know whether or not you should be using the development environment, feel free to hop into the developer support forum (opens in a new tab). Someone nice will help you out!
Installation
Before you begin, ensure you have the following components installed on your system. The instructions below cover Ubuntu and Mac installations.
Ubuntu Installation
These instructions were verified on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Other versions may require slight modifications.
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Install the command line utilities
makeandjq:
sudo apt install -y make jqInstalling Go
Install Go on your system by following the official Go installation instructions (opens in a new tab). Be sure to install the latest stable version.
After installation, you can verify Go is correctly installed by running:
go versionClone the Optimism monorepo
git clone https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism.git
cd optimismInstall Foundry using monorepo tooling
The following command will install Foundry if it is not already installed on your system. If an error occurs during execution, please run source /root/.bashrc and try again.
just install-foundryIf you do already have Foundry installed, make sure to run the following to verify your installed version will work with the monorepo tooling as expected.
just check-foundryIf you need to, you can run the following to update Foundry to the expected version.
just update-foundryOperations
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To start, run (in the root directory of the monorepo)
make devnet-up.
The first time it runs it will be relatively slow because it needs to download the images, after that it will be faster. -
To stop, run (in the root directory of the monorepo)
make devnet-down. -
To clean everything, run (in the root directory of the monorepo)
make devnet-clean.
Additional Info
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The monorepo includes L1 contract addresses and the devnet L1 deploy configs (opens in a new tab). The L2 contract addresses are, of course, the standard ones.
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There are some differences between the development node and the real world (a.k.a. Ethereum mainnet and OP Mainnet):
Parameter Real-world Devnode L1 chain ID 1 900 L2 chain ID 10 901 Time between L1 blocks (in seconds) 12 6 -
Pre-Funded Dev Accounts
By default, the same 10 dev accounts that are pre-funded using Anvil or HardHat are also pre-funded on both L1 and L2:
💡These private keys are common knowledge, you should not use them on any network other than this dev network. Using these private keys on mainnet, or even a testnet, will most likely result in a loss of funds.
Address Private Key Balance 0xf39Fd6e51aad88F6F4ce6aB8827279cffFb92266 0xac0974bec39a17e36ba4a6b4d238ff944bacb478cbed5efcae784d7bf4f2ff80 10,000 ETH 0x70997970C51812dc3A010C7d01b50e0d17dc79C8 0x59c6995e998f97a5a0044966f0945389dc9e86dae88c7a8412f4603b6b78690d 10,000 ETH 0x3C44CdDdB6a900fa2b585dd299e03d12FA4293BC 0x5de4111afa1a4b94908f83103eb1f1706367c2e68ca870fc3fb9a804cdab365a 10,000 ETH 0x90F79bf6EB2c4f870365E785982E1f101E93b906 0x7c852118294e51e653712a81e05800f419141751be58f605c371e15141b007a6 10,000 ETH 0x15d34AAf54267DB7D7c367839AAf71A00a2C6A65 0x47e179ec197488593b187f80a00eb0da91f1b9d0b13f8733639f19c30a34926a 10,000 ETH 0x9965507D1a55bcC2695C58ba16FB37d819B0A4dc 0x8b3a350cf5c34c9194ca85829a2df0ec3153be0318b5e2d3348e872092edffba 10,000 ETH 0x976EA74026E726554dB657fA54763abd0C3a0aa9 0x92db14e403b83dfe3df233f83dfa3a0d7096f21ca9b0d6d6b8d88b2b4ec1564e 10,000 ETH 0x14dC79964da2C08b23698B3D3cc7Ca32193d9955 0x4bbbf85ce3377467afe5d46f804f221813b2bb87f24d81f60f1fcdbf7cbf4356 10,000 ETH 0x23618e81E3f5cdF7f54C3d65f7FBc0aBf5B21E8f 0xdbda1821b80551c9d65939329250298aa3472ba22feea921c0cf5d620ea67b97 10,000 ETH 0xa0Ee7A142d267C1f36714E4a8F75612F20a79720 0x2a871d0798f97d79848a013d4936a73bf4cc922c825d33c1cf7073dff6d409c6 10,000 ETH - Mnemonic:
test test test test test test test test test test test junk - Derivation path:
m/44'/60'/0'/0/
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