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As a developer advocate over at Chainstack, I’ve worked closely with both developers who are creating on top of Ethereum, and the support has been great. It helps that Ethereum has a great developer community.

Building on top of Ethereum has never been easier. Frameworks such as the ever-popular Truffle-suite and Embark make it very easy for developers to quickly deploy contracts and interact with them. These frameworks, unfortunately, are best suited for testing and experimentation.

We’ve noticed a huge uptake in Chainstack subscriptions from the education sector, and I’ve done some research to learn more about the motivations and needs of this sector.

In part 2 of the Trust Trilogy, I ended with the promise of larger ecosystems and markets made possible through a simple mind-shift, where collaboration is the norm and the blockchain is the default trusted execution environment.

In this tutorial, we will deploy our own Chainlink node and then seamlessly get it to connect to an Ethereum node created via Chainstack. This will be done on the Ropsten network.

Deploying a smart contract these days is easier than you think. By combining a popular framework called Embark with Chainstack’s capability to quickly deploy Ethereum nodes on the mainnet, smart contract deployment is as easy as sending an email.