Initial release of the project

Developers Can Get Started in Seconds Using the CCIP Local Simulator

We’re excited to announce that the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has officially entered general availability (GA)!

We believe that enabling developers to build quicker helps the entire ecosystem grow faster. That’s why we’ve also developed a simulator that allows you to build with CCIP on your local machine directly in Remix IDE, Hardhat or Anvil (Foundry).

Previously, developers had to build with CCIP directly on a testnet, which often meant having to wait 10+ minutes just to test a single cross-chain message or token transfer. In this initial simulator version, you can now build, deploy, and execute CCIP token transfers and arbitrary messages on a local Remix, Hardhat or Anvil (Foundry) network, both with and without forking. This greatly speeds up development, as CCIP messaging and token transfer transaction times have now been reduced to seconds.

Read more at the blog post here and watch the 5-minute live presentation of Chainlink Local here.