Qtum, the secure open-source smart contract platform, today has unveiled a full suite of blockchain developer tools in partnership with Google Cloud. These free tools, are designed to give developers and non-technical users alike, a simple and cost-effective way of launching nodes and building on the Qtum blockchain.
The Qtum developer toolkit includes Qtum Core, a Solidity Compiler, Qmix IDE, Solar (smart contracts deployment tool), Qt-dev libraries, and all other necessary libraries and tools to develop dApps.
“Google Cloud is the perfect partner to help us make the blockchain ecosystem simpler and more intuitive. Where launching a node was once an intensive and complex process, Qtum’s new developer suite introduces helpful shortcuts and tools to make it faster and easier. With a more accessible technology, we hope to open up and expand the Qtum community to include people with a broader range of experience — from experts to the everyday user.”
The suite of tools launched on Google Cloud is available through the Qtum compute engine. The compute engine lets anyone launch a free full dev environment on Qtum and begin developing or staking in a matter of seconds. Previously, developers had to source the necessary tools themselves to create a full Qtum node or decentralized applications (dApps).
With Qtum, users now have access to the suite of tools necessary to build dApps, launch a full node, make a fork, or begin staking on the Qtum blockchain on Google Cloud. When the Qtum source code is updated, Google Cloud will automatically update the code everywhere, saving developers the need to manually re-download in order to remain on the latest version.