# Testnet by Astar

By [Atoms Research](https://paragraph.com/@atoms-research) · 2024-02-20

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[**Astar Network**](https://twitter.com/astarNetwork) is Japan's most popular smart contract platform, supporting both EVM and WebAssembly (Wasm) environments, and interoperability between them using a Cross-Virtual Machine

Raised: $44.80M from Polychain Capital, Binance Labs, Coinbase and others

30% of $ASTR tokens are [allocated](https://docs.astar.network/docs/learn/astar-tokens#overview) to Users and Early Supporters

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/131070362fd81037b3d128048f87ad086e33d8114cb265eaf7b99344ab193d14.png)

### What to do?

• Request test tokens from the [faucet](https://www.alchemy.com/faucets/ethereum-sepolia)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8800426ad9706897234ee7c45130439df91433391feb7c4c3a04e16cff2d0bde.png)

• Add the [network](https://chainlist.org/chain/1261120) to your wallet

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4535a45d980aef55fc6abe8a01f52833e08821c1aee2818e028f90e77dce634e.png)

• Go to the [site](https://portal.astar.network/shibuya-testnet/bridge/ethereum?tab=bridge) and connect your wallet

• In the "Bridge" tab, transfer tokens from the Sepolia network to zKatana

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/58b5faf9e63f841d1641904772ba5c185be3f3cfe2a213757fc8282b4ca6b1bb.png)

• Switch to the [website](https://testnet.verylongswap.xyz/) and swap available test tokens

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/20e6dfa76c2b9ab2f5448c31bd613ec9ea07644920d752fcbd1824ac8037e2e9.png)

• Now fill out the forms to get the [NFT](https://astarnetwork.deform.cc/first-edition-capsule-1/) and [role](https://astarnetwork.deform.cc/astarzkevm/?page_number=0)

• Deploy a contract on [Thirdweb](https://thirdweb.com/explore)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/c63f4175c1058620899f74ac8c7becb7429da7232a386791c8065d483c51a0f7.png)

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