About
Kickstart your ink! hackathon projects and production dApps.
The Project
The inkathon boilerplate is almost as old as ink! itself. With over 200 stars, more than 250 public projects depending on it, and the most active ink! Telegram group.
It offers a complete setup for developing full-stack dApps on Polkadot with ink! smart contracts and Next.js and now shines in new glory with full ink! v6 support. Powered by Papi, ReactiveDOT, Pop CLI, and more.
New Features in v6
The boilerplate has been completely rebuilt with:
- Full ink! v6 support with PolkaVM compatibility
- Type-safe contract interactions via PAPI
- Modern stack: Bun, Next.js 15, React 19, Tailwind CSS v4
- Improved DX: Better build scripts & deployment automation
- Production-ready: Docker support, self-hosting optimized
- New
create-inkathon-appCLI for setting up the boilerplate in seconds
Changelog
ink! v5 Support
The old ink! v5 compatible boilerplate and documentation is available on the
v1 branch.
The v6 changelog is available on the GitHub releases page.