Frequently Asked Questions

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Neon EVM is unique in combining the powerful technical advantages of Solana with the vibrant development community and expertise of Ethereum. In general, it is much easier to port over existing EVM smart contract code than to build natively on Solana from scratch.

The Neon community is an exciting one to join! Check out our community page and join any platform that interest you.

Upcoming events in the Neon community are listed on our events page. You can also sign up for Neon’s newsletter to stay in the loop. If an in-person Neon event is happening near you, why not come and say hello?

As a smart contract on Solana, Neon EVM benefits from Solana’s low gas fees (no less than 0.000015 SOL per transaction) and high throughput (+2,000 TPS). This makes it the cheapest and most efficient way anywhere to run Ethereum dApps. Neon EVM does not require any significant changes to run existing Ethereum smart contracts, with all the advantages and innovations of Solana. In addition, the Neon EVM provides access to many familiar Ethereum developer tools, including MetaMask, Remix, Hardhat and Truffle. Neon is the perfect platform for Ethereum dApps to tap into the Solana ecosystem.

You can view our roadmap on our Home Page.

Neon EVM is a smart contract on Solana acting as the Ethereum Virtual Machine. It is compiled into Berkeley Packet Filter bytecode, a format that can be executed on Solana. This allows Neon EVM to receive Solana transactions that contain wrapped Ethereum-like transactions and process them on Solana according to Ethereum rules.

You can see the list of projects that are being built in Neon here.

The following tools are available on Neon:
- NeonScan - Neon EVM’s block explorer.

• - NeonPass - A utility for transferring SPL tokens between Solana and Neon.
  - NeonFaucet - Where tokens for the Neon Devnet may be retrieved for testing and experimental purposes.