Automation of a Solidity smart contract verification with HardHat and Etherscan

In this story, I show how to automate the verification of a Solidity smart contract with Etherscan.

Hardhat (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nomiclabs/hardhat-etherscan) is an integration plugin for Etherscan’s contract verification service (https://etherscan.io/).

Once this service is successfully used, a green “verified” status icon is displayed on Etherscan.

To use this service, you must specify the deployment address and the manufacturer’s…