Mode 101: A guide to deploying on the hyper-growth chain

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Quick deploy guide for Mode: Mode offers protocol-level revenue sharing and referral fees, tooling and dashboards, plus grants of 10k USD grants (3k top prize, 2k for categories) to projects that deploy. Steps: add Mode RPC (or add Mode network to MetaMask), get test POLA via the Mode faucet or Discord, bridge tokens from other chains, then point Hardhat/Foundry/thirdweb to Mode in your config and deploy. Suggested builds: onchain identity, referral/reputation, UX-first DeFi, AI-NFT combos, games and dashboards.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:08Add Mode to MetaMask
3. 4:42Get Sepolia ETH
4. 4:59Bridge Sepolia ETH to Mode
5. 5:24Deploy

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