🚀 Getting Started with Hardhat: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploy Locally Your First Smart Contract Project using Hardhat.

A comprehensive tutorial covering Hardhat setup for Ethereum smart contract development. Walks through project initialization, installing dependencies, writing a basic Greeter contract in Solidity, compiling and deploying locally, and deploying to Sepolia testnet using Alchemy. Includes troubleshooting common dependency errors, using Hardhat's vars system for secure credential management, and contract verification on Etherscan.