Hardhat Ignition
Declarative smart contract deployment system for Ethereum with Hardhat.
Crypto and web3 npm MIT
Used in agent projects
46
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in crypto and web3
#36 of 89
by use in those projects
Downloads
119K
npm, last 7 days, @nomicfoundation/hardhat-ignition
GitHub stars
8,511
last push Oct 10, 2026
How Hardhat Ignition is used
Hardhat Ignition is a dependency in 46 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #36 of 89 in crypto and web3. The most used alternative there is Solana Web3.js. Projects that use it most often also use Hardhat (97.8%), viem (95.7%), OpenZeppelin Contracts (65.2%).
Often used with Hardhat Ignition
| Hardhat | 97.8% of Hardhat Ignition projects · 55.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| viem | 95.7% of Hardhat Ignition projects · 7.8× more than average |
| OpenZeppelin Contracts | 65.2% of Hardhat Ignition projects · 49.9× more than average |
| Hardhat Toolbox Viem | 63.0% of Hardhat Ignition projects · 76.2× more than average |
| Hardhat Verify | 52.2% of Hardhat Ignition projects · 140.9× more than average |
| Hardhat ethers Plugin | 45.7% of Hardhat Ignition projects · 99.9× more than average |
| Hardhat Network Helpers | 45.7% of Hardhat Ignition projects · 126.0× more than average |
| ethers.js | 43.5% of Hardhat Ignition projects · 9.6× more than average |
Install
| Package | npm install @nomicfoundation/hardhat-ignition |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (35), Next.js (11) |
| Example projects | zeta-chain/toolkit, realxtefi/hardhat-typechain-starter |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Anchor npm Framework for developing Solana smart contracts with TypeScript and Rust. |
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| solders pypi Python bindings for Solana Rust tools enabling efficient blockchain interaction. |
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