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Installation

This page provides installation instructions for supersim.

Prerequisites: `foundry`

supersim requires anvil to be installed.

Follow the Foundry toolchain (opens in a new tab) guide for detailed instructions.

Install `supersim`

Get the precompiled binaries by downloading the executable for your platform from the GitHub releases page (opens in a new tab).
Get Homebrew (OS X, Linux).

brew tap ethereum-optimism/tap
brew install supersim

Start `supersim` in vanilla mode

supersim

Vanilla mode will start 3 chains, with the OP Stack contracts already deployed.

(1) L1 Chain
- Chain 900
(2) L2 Chains
- Chain 901
- Chain 902

Next steps

Continue to the First Steps tutorial to try L1 to L2 message passing.
Explore Supersim features, particularly in vanilla mode, which starts 3 chains (L1 and L2).