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+Talk originally given at SCF pitch fest July 2024, https://youtu.be/z4zRXWfrTxc?si=Y3mQ7uw_Wn216B5z&t=6420
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+Slides at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SfhkJWNQzrMiKtuwzeqUg_ih1I0Z_v9Yxto31MmKIKg/edit?usp=drive_link
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+hi everyone I'm Chad the CEO of Loam
+
+what is Loam?
+
+Loam is a kind of soil
+
+really good soil
+
+a perfect mix of sand, clay, and silt
+
+and it helps you grow roots that are both deep and wide
+
+we help you grow ambitious dapps
+
+We've now partnered with smart deploy
+
+and will be integrating all smart deploy functionality
+
+into Loam
+
+which means our team now has all of these developers
+
+you may have seen us around
+
+maintaining Stellar CLI
+
+and the JS sdk's contract client
+
+our full team also includes some marketing and operational folks
+
+who can help us grow both more deep and wide
+
+we're currently building both the smart contracts and frontend for EquitX,
+
+another SCF project
+
+dogfooding and improving Loam as we go
+
+let's go ahead and take a quick tour of Loam
+
+I recommend installing it with cargo binstall
+
+it's gonna make it way faster
+
+and then you can
+
+initialize a new project using Loam
+
+cd into it 
+
+go ahead and run some setup
+
+and then
+
+run Dev
+
+run Dev is going to concurrently run
+
+Loam Dev and
+
+Astro Dev
+
+(Astro is our frontend framework
+
+don't worry too much about that)
+
+we'll give loam dev some time to run
+
+in the meantime
+
+let's look at the example contracts it gave us
+
+we've got a core example contract
+
+and a status message example contract
+
+if we look in the source code of the core example contract
+
+this is literally it
+
+it's super simple
+
+maybe too simple to see
+
+it's importing a "subcontract core"
+
+and then it's deriving it
+
+this will start to make a little more sense
+
+when we look at status message
+
+it's still doing the "subcontract core" stuff but
+
+it defines its own "subcontract status message"
+
+so subcontracts are kind of like Lego blocks
+
+that you snap together into a full smart contract
+
+if we look at the source code for "subcontract core"
+
+it defines three methods
+
+admin get
+
+admin set
+
+and redeploy
+
+which lets you upgrade your smart contract
+
+the status message subcontract defines two methods
+
+messages get
+
+messages set
+
+all right so back to Loam Dev
+
+we see that it deployed our
+
+smart contracts to our local network
+
+so that if we run
+
+Stellar contract invoke ID example status message
+
+we'll see that we have all five of those methods!
+
+admin get
+
+admin set
+
+redeploy
+
+messages get
+
+messages set
+
+hooray!
+
+it worked!
+
+soon we'll have more example contracts
+
+right now it just gives you those two
+
+but soon we will also implement all the ones from
+
+soroban examples
+
+so if you want to see how to do anything that's in sorbon examples using Loam SDK
+
+you'll be able to
+
+right now if you go to github.com/loam-build/loam and
+
+look at the pUll requests
+
+we've also got an nft example in the works
+
+your new project also has an environments.toml file
+
+this is where we told Loam Dev
+
+what our local network settings are
+
+what named accounts to create
+
+and we told it to build clients for all of our contracts
+
+client equals true is actually the default
+
+you don't need to have it
+
+we also support other things like init
+
+this is a script that runs whenever the contract is first deployed
+
+and anytime it changes
+
+to get your local development environment into a sensible starting place
+
+you can also define other environments like staging
+
+where you probably want to use the testnet network
+
+and a production environment where you'll probably use the pubnet Network
+
+and soon
+
+integrating smart deploy functionality
+
+will also help you update your contracts
+
+and deploy them to public networks
+
+soon we will also let you run the local network automatically
+
+right now you have to do it manually
+
+and something I'm really excited about
+
+soon we'll let you spoon data
+
+from a live network to your local network
+
+like Euro coin at a certain ledger sequence number
+
+we already generate the frontend clients for you
+
+using Stellar contract bindings typescript
+
+and import them using the settings we saw earlier
+
+from Loam Dev
+
+and this all already auto rebuilds when you update your contracts
+
+but soon we will also autogenerate UI
+
+kind of like scaffoldETH
+
+so that you can interact with your contracts from the browser right away
+
+in summary
+
+Loam gives you end-to-end tooling to grow ambitious dapps thank you
+