🪙 Decentralized Lottery App

Welcome to the Decentralized Lottery App! This project aims to create a transparent, secure, fair lottery system using blockchain technology. By leveraging smart contracts, we ensure the lottery is tamper-proof and the results are verifiable.

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📑Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Smart Contract Details
• Technologies Used
• Contributing
• License
• Contact

Introduction

The Decentralized Lottery App is built on the Ethereum blockchain. It utilizes smart contracts to manage the lottery process, ensuring fairness and transparency. Participants can buy tickets, and a winner is selected randomly through the smart contract.

Features

• Decentralized: Operates on the Ethereum blockchain, removing the need for a central authority.
• Transparent: All transactions and processes are recorded on the blockchain, ensuring transparency.
• Secure: Utilizes smart contracts to manage the lottery, making it tamper-proof.
• Fair: The smart contract handles Random winner selection, ensuring fairness.

Installation

To run this project locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Jagadeeshftw/Decentralized_Lottery_App.git
cd Decentralized_Lottery_App

2. Install dependencies:

 npm install

3. Set Infura API key:

npx hardhat vars set INFURA_API_KEY

4. Set Sepolia private key:

npx hardhat vars set SEPOLIA_PRIVATE_KEY

5. Compile the smart contracts:

npx hardhat compile

6. Test the smart contracts:

 npx hardhat test

7. Start a local node & deploy the Hardhat Ignition module in the sepolia network:

npx hardhat node
npx hardhat ignition deploy ./ignition/modules/lottery.ts --network sepolia

8. Run the application:

npm run dev

👤 Usage

1. Buy Tickets: Participants can buy lottery tickets by sending Ether to the smart contract.
2. Draw Lottery: The smart contract will randomly select a winner from the participants.
3. Claim Winnings: The winner can claim their winnings by interacting with the smart contract.

Smart Contract Details

The smart contract is written in Solidity and deployed on the Ethereum network. It manages the following functions:

• `buyTicket`: Allows users to buy a lottery ticket.
• `drawLottery`: Selects a random winner from the participants.
• `claimWinnings`: The winner can claim their prize.

🛠️ Technologies Used

• Solidity: For writing smart contracts.
• Hardhat & Truffle: Development framework for Ethereum.
• Nextjs: For building the front-end application.
• Web3.js & Ethers.js: For interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to this project. If you would like to contribute, please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch (`git checkout -b feature/your-feature`).
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -m 'Add some feature'`).
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin feature/your-feature`).
5. Open a pull request.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. Please have a look at the LICENSE file for details.

📧 Contact

For any questions or feedback, please reach out to:

• Jagadeesh - Jagadeeshftw