# Deploy a Contract with Hardhat

### Overview

Hardhat is one of the popular smart contract development frameworks. Refer to [Hardhat's tutorials](https://hardhat.org/tutorial) for more information.

### Prerequisites

Before you begin, you will need to prepare the following:

* Prepare one EVM account。
* Send some BTC to the account as gas fee 。 You can first bridge some BTC via Merlin Bridge (<https://merlinchain.io/bridge>) and send the BTC to your EVM account used to deploy contracts.


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