The idea of this section is to help provide you with a great first step into the world of developing smart contracts and applications for WAX. There are a lot of resources available on a lot of different places, I hope you can utilize this as a good first step to learn more.

The Basics

Smart Contract Language: C++

• WAX Github repo: https://github.com/worldwide-asset-exchange
• WAX APT repo: https://eosswedenorg.github.io/apt/wax
• NodeJS: https://github.com/worldwide-asset-exchange/waxjs
• Python: https://github.com/FACINGS/eospyo
• GO AtomicApi client: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/eosswedenorg-go/atomicasset
• Command Line Tool: CLEOS | KEOSD - Comes with installing WAX from source or apt
• Anchor Desktop Wallet: https://github.com/greymass/anchor
• Apply for funding: https://labs.wax.io

NFT Standards

• Atomicassets - https://atomicassets.io/ - Most popular & Recommended to use
• Simpleassets - https://simpleassets.io/

Mainnet Details

• Available public Mainnet APIs: List on Website | Json List
  • You also find History nodes, peering nodes, atomic API (NFT-api) and more.
• Snapshots-Mainnet: waxsweden | eosnation

Testnet Details

• Available public Testnet APIs: List on Website | Json List
  • You also find History nodes (Hyperion), peering nodes (p2p), atomic API (NFT-api) and more.
• Testnet access & Faucet: waxsweden.org/testnet/
• Snapshots-Testnet: waxsweden | eosnation

Different APIs

You can find APIs for Mainnet and Testnet above.

Chain API

• Docs: https://developers.eos.io/manuals/eos/v2.0/nodeos/plugins/chain_api_plugin/api-reference/index

Atomic API

• Docs: https://wax.api.atomicassets.io/docs/#/
• Code: https://github.com/pinknetworkx/eosio-contract-api

Hyperion (History)

• Code: https://github.com/eosrio/hyperion-history-api
• Docs: http://api.waxsweden.org/v2/docs/static/index.html

NFT Market analytics

• Docs: https://hivebp.github.io/waxmarketcap/#/

Chronicle Lightweight DB 

• Code: https://github.com/EOSChronicleProject/eos-chronicle
• Tutorial: https://github.com/EOSChronicleProject/chronicle-tutorial

Bdata - Open SQL Database

• Financial Data: https://bdata.one/eosio-accounting.html
• DB Schema: https://github.com/cc32d9/eosio_token_accounting/blob/master/eosio_token_accounting_tables.psql
• Daily Activity DB: https://bdata.one/eosio-activity.html
• DB Schema: https://github.com/cc32d9/eosio_activity_db/blob/master/eosio_activity_tables.psql

Developer Portals

• EOSIO Developer Portal: https://developers.eos.io/
• WAX Developer Portal: https://developer.wax.io/

Check Status for Public WAX Endpoints

• EOSNATION Validator: https://validate.eosnation.io/wax/reports/endpoints.html
• EOSUSA Graphana Dashboard: https://stats.eosusa.news/d/YdOCczSMk/global-advanced-view?orgId=1
• Blacklusion Validationcore: https://wax.validationcore.io/stats/guild
• SENTNL OIG Dashboard: https://oig.sentnl.io/latestresults
• Ledgerwise Guild Status: https://tools.ledgerwise.io/nodestatus/wax

Incorporating WAX to your website

There are available tools to help you manage multiple wallets for your website, or you can choose to implement just one of them.
Depending on your frontend, which tool(s) you choose to implement will vary. 

• Embed NFT drops: https://neftyblocks.medium.com/embedded-nft-drops-are-here-be9b6bfff9c5
• Embed your Marketplace: https://neftyblocks.medium.com/your-project-your-marketplace-910fe80c0f66
• Your own Marketplace Template: https://github.com/hivebp/wax-market-template

EOSIO UAL (Website Wallet Manager)

• WAX-UAL : https://github.com/eosdac/ual-wax
• EOSIO UAL (web-login): https://github.com/EOSIO/ual-eosio-reference-authenticator

WAXJS for websites (Integrate WAX Cloud Wallet)

Base tool to interact with the WAX Cloud wallet. It's built on EOSJS, where you can find further documentation.

• WAXJS JavaScript File: https://github.com/worldwide-asset-exchange/waxjs/blob/develop/dist-web/waxjs.js
• WAXJS demo (Cloud wallet): https://github.com/worldwide-asset-exchange/waxjs/blob/develop/dist-web/index.html
• EOSJS Documentations 
  • EOSJS documentation: https://developers.eos.io/manuals/eosjs/latest/how-to-guides/index
  • EOSJS API Documentation: https://developers.eos.io/manuals/eosjs/latest/API-Reference/index

Anchorlink for websites (Integrate anchor wallet)

Anchor is the most popular self-management wallet for any Antelope (EOSIO) Blockchain, including WAX. It has support for Ledger, Trezor and more.

• Greymass Anchorlink: https://github.com/greymass/anchor-link
• Anchorlink simple example: https://github.com/greymass/anchor-link/blob/master/examples
• Anchorlink VueJS example: https://github.com/greymass/anchor-link-demo
• Anchorlink ReactJS example: https://github.com/greymass/anchor-link-demo-multipass
• Anchorlink API Documentation: https://greymass.github.io/anchor-link/
• Anchorlink Browser Transport: https://github.com/greymass/anchor-link-browser-transport

Wharfkit - Multiwallet Session manager for websites By Greymass

When I add this in 2023-04, the Wharfkit suite of tools is in early release, so keep up to date with updates. 

• Wharfkit session: https://github.com/wharfkit/session
• Wharfkit NPM packs: https://www.npmjs.com/org/wharfkit
• Wharfkit Anchor Plugin: https://github.com/wharfkit/wallet-plugin-anchor
• Wharfkit Cloud Wallet Plugin: https://github.com/wharfkit/wallet-plugin-cloudwallet
• Wharfkit Cleos Wallet Plugin: https://github.com/wharfkit/wallet-plugin-cleos

Game Development

Many of the above tools and services suits game development well, in this section it will be those created for game development.

WAX Unity SDK

• Article with more info: https://academy.anyo.io/wax-unity-sdk
• Github Repo: https://github.com/liquiidio
• SDK Documentation: https://liquiidio.gitbook.io/

Developer chats

Telegram

• WAX developers: https://t.me/waxdevelopers
• Atomic Assets Dev: https://t.me/atomicdevs

Discord

• WAX Official: https://discord.gg/YZ9MzPy7Vu
• WAX Community & Dev: https://discord.gg/GYnGzCP256

Misc Links

• Bootable USB image with WAX Tools: https://github.com/eosswedenorg/eosio-livecd
• HAProxy Healthcheck for nodes: https://github.com/eosswedenorg/eosio-api-healthcheck
• Keygen for vanity keys: https://github.com/eosswedenorg/eosio-keygen

Guides on running nodes

My guides and information

• WAX Introduction course - https://academy.anyo.io/courses/introduction-to-wax/
• Private-Key system on WAX - https://academy.anyo.io/eosio-private-key-system/
• Basic WAX Automation - https://academy.anyo.io/automate-wax-actions/
• Offline Generated Private keys - https://waxsweden.org/courses/create-offline-generated-private-keys-v1/
• WAX Node Healthcheck for HAProxy - https://waxsweden.org/eosio-api-healthcheck-for-haproxy/

Video Information:

• WAX Account system - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtzx5qfzfo

Ross Dold - eosphere - Working with WAX series

1. Set Up - Testnet node: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-1-4cc5c9aa8d4e
2.  WAX Snapshots: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-2-db45a339e735
3. Set Up - Testnet Block Producer: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-3-78d358c46146
4. Set Up - Mainnet Node: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-4-886c5bfaf7b9
5. Set Up - Reliable Load Balancer: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-5-14671fcc7122
6. Mitigate API Abuse: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-6-5e5318a9eb8e
7.  Set up - State History Node: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-7-9ccc102efd9d
8. WAX Files and Folders: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-8-42011a30de1e
9. Set up - Atomic API node: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-9-f7d22bfa4e2b
10. Optmize & Restore Atomic API node: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-10-90c6445632ed
11. Optmize Ram & Disk Utilization: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-11-43695f583e89
12. Add custom permissions: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-12-9d39257d319
13. Route API traffic: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-13-448b3375516
14. Websocket support on load balancer: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-14-b8912d3ba1ef
15. Hyperion History API
    1. Hyperion Full History Node: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-15-1-d2936d3c58d4
    2. Hyperion Software Components: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-15-2-a042ea8bc4b4
    3. Configure Hyperion Components: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-15-3-b188c6aa9d12
    4. Run Hyperion Full History: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-15-4-f735d4cbc197
    5. Clustering Elasticsearch: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-15-5-6ae01ea6bf62
    6. Fix Missing Blocks in Hyperion: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-15-6-622ae2936771
    7. Hyperion Indexer scaling: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-15-7-ce11fbc97c40
    8. Hyperion Streaming with Load Balancer: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-15-8-396dd3b0484b
16. Visualize metrics from WAX Load Balancer: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-16-a64d5a53d770
17. Securely peer through Wireguard VPN: https://medium.com/eosphere/wax-technical-how-to-17-d0fa0961ff58