Please describe your proposed solution
At the Cardano ecosystem, we currently lack tooling to provide easy and effective testing of applications before being deployed on Cardano mainnet, this proposal aims to change that.
The Cardano Foundation is currently developing a wrapper around the Yaci DevKit, aimed at companies by providing customer support and software from Cardano's genesis entity. This tool allows to set up a local Cardano network for proving use cases, as well as for local and CI testing. While this is a promising initiative, we believe there's potential to achieve even more. Therefore, we've decided to enhance it with additional features.
This proposal ideally enables us to develop a fully open source, go-to solution for Cardano builders to easily and effectively test and experiment applications before deploying them on the Cardano mainnet.
“Ganacha” has the potential to enhance the Yaci DevKit with additional features, such as IDE integrations and project bootstrapping templates, it will not only serve as an entry point to the Cardano ecosystem but also become the Cardano equivalent of "Hardhat," a go-to solution for builders on Cardano.