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  • Overview
    Overview
  • How-to Guides
    • Reading Blockchain Data
      Reading Blockchain Data
    • Creating & Broadcasting Transactions
      Creating & Broadcasting Transactions
    • Tokenization
      Tokenization
    • Airdrop
      Airdrop
    • Payments
      Payments
    • Exchange Tokens
      Exchange Tokens
    • Simple Voting
      Simple Voting
    How-to Guides
  • Waves Smart Contracts
    Waves Smart Contracts
  • dApp
    • Creating & Launching dApp
      Creating & Launching dApp
    dApp
  • Smart Account
    • Creating smart account
      Creating smart account
    • Creating and deploying a script manually
      Creating and deploying a script manually
    • Video tutorials
      • Introduction to the Waves blockchain, Waves Smart Accounts and Waves Smart Assets
        Introduction to the Waves blockchain, Waves Smart Accounts and Waves Smart Assets
      • Waves Smart Account with multisignature
        Waves Smart Account with multisignature
      • Waves Smart Account with escrow service
        Waves Smart Account with escrow service
      • Creating multisignature account via Waves IDE tools
        Creating multisignature account via Waves IDE tools
      • Creating multisignature account via Waves Client
        Creating multisignature account via Waves Client
      • Waves console explained
        Waves console explained
      Video tutorials
    Smart Account
  • Smart Asset
    Smart Asset
  • Developer Tools
    • Waves IDE
      Waves IDE
    • Visual Studio Code Extension
      Visual Studio Code Extension
    • Surfboard
      Surfboard
    • Ride REPL
      Ride REPL
    Developer Tools
  • Signer ◆
    Signer ◆
  • Waves API
    • Data Service API
      Data Service API
    • Node REST API 🡥
      Node REST API 🡥
    • Node gRPC Server 🡥
      Node gRPC Server 🡥
    • Blockchain Updates 🡥
      Blockchain Updates 🡥
    Waves API
  • Client libraries
    • GoWaves
      GoWaves
    Client libraries
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          # How-to Guides

          How-to guides provide instructions including sample code that you can follow to complete a specific task.

          # Basics

          Retrieving information from the blockchain

          All the data in Waves blockchain is public and can be read by anyone. For example, you can retrive data from account data storage, account balance, a list of transactions by certain account, or current blockchain height and time.

          Creating and broadcasting transactions to the blockchain

          To perform any action on the blockchain, you need to create a transaction of appropriate type, sign it and send to a node.

          # Tokens & Assets

          Creating and Managing Custom Token

          Issue your own token that represents some digital asset. New token is immediately available for transfers and trading, so you can use it in your games, DeFi apps etc.

          Airdrop (Python 3)

          Promote your app by transferring your token to active Waves addresses collected from the last blocks.

          Receiving Payments

          Prodive your customers with the ability to make payments in WAVES, XTN, ETH or any other asset issued on Waves blockchain or supported by gateways.

          # Exchange

          Exchange assets

          To exchange asset (except NFTs), you need to create an order, sign it and send to the exchange.

          # dApps

          Creating and Launching dApp

          The complete cycle of launching a decentralized application: from creating a dApp account to writing a web application that calls dApp functions.

          Simple voting on the Waves blockchain

          This dApp implements voting among HOA (homeowners association) members on the Waves blockchain. The dApp script checks if a voter has rights to vote and writes voting results to the dApp data storage.

          # Waves Tech Blog Articles

          • How to build a dApp for team motivation (Jun 9, 2020)
          • How to write decentralized oracles in Ride (May 13, 2020)
          • Blockchain Trigger: a tool for automatic smart contract invocation (Apr 23, 2020)
          • Blockchain RSA-based random (Nov 5, 2019)
          Overview
          Reading Blockchain Data
          Overview
          Reading Blockchain Data