Interacting with the Cardano Blockchain using JavaScript

Cardano, a third-generation blockchain network established by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson in 2015, emphasizes interoperability, scalability, and decentralization to promote widespread adoption. The network is primarily developed using Plutus, Marlowe, or Glow, but the community has made SDKs available for JavaScript and other languages. This guide focuses on initiating Cardano development with JavaScript using Cardanocli-js and Cardano-wallet-js, the latter being a popular SDK that supports functionality such as creating native tokens and NFTs. Users are guided through various tasks, including connecting to a Cardano node, creating wallets and stake pools, and querying blockchain information. The tutorial outlines the necessary prerequisites such as NodeJs and CardanoCli setup, and provides code examples for practical tasks, although Cardano's native smart contracts cannot currently be developed in JavaScript. Despite this limitation, the SDKs offer significant capabilities for integrating Cardano functionalities into both Web3.0 and Web2.0 projects.