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6. Faucets

Davi Pedro Bauer1  
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Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 

You can use faucets to test smart contracts on the test network with no need to use real ether for this purpose (because ether from the mainnet is not valid in testnets, and vice versa). Ether in a test network has no real value except for testing purposes in smart contracts development.

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to do the following:
  • Access the faucet on the Ropsten network

  • Access the faucet on the Rinkeby network

  • Access the faucet on the Polygon Mumbai test network

  • Access the faucet on the ...

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