# Quickstart Guide

Welcome to Laika Quickstart Guide! This guide serves to give new users a basic introduction to the Laika app.

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> Many users informally refer to us as the **“Postman for Web 3.0”** (If that is something you would agree with, leave us comments or share our product with your friends!) For us, that’s truly a compliment, and we like to call ourselves **“the Request Builder for Web 3.0”**.

At the time of writing, Laika supports any EVM compatible chain. You can use Laika to make a request to smart contracts on any such EVM chain of your lock.

Before we begin, here’s what you’ll need.

* Web3 Wallet (You can use any Injected wallet of your choice)
* Some native tokens for passing requests to the blockchain network.

That’s it!

Now, let's head to the [Laika App](https://web.getlaika.app) (<https://web.getlaika.app>)

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To start, you will need to connect your wallet to the app by clicking on the red button at the top right.

![Once connected, your address will show up!](https://4276181174-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FBAYSQIWd7IsbIjaYskIf%2Fuploads%2FJBytxfQsTvjw5TErG6px%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=a38d5720-31e8-4078-be02-d14720d2ca44)

After you connect the wallet the display will show your connected wallet and your current chain.&#x20;

In this tutorial, we recommend you pick **Ethereum Testnet Kovan**.

> *We provide an example contract on Kovan for testing Laika's functionality quickly*

Now look at the left side you’ll see the Workspace pane, this is where you pick the function call you want to request.

![The Workspace Pane shows all the functions available in the contract ABI](https://4276181174-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FBAYSQIWd7IsbIjaYskIf%2Fuploads%2FJHCQVbMVay3L1iLlWrGK%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=d63983a5-85bd-4c7d-b755-3bc3904729b5)

Let’s pick **getCount** for example.

![Picking the "getCount" function call in the left Workspace pane](https://4276181174-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FBAYSQIWd7IsbIjaYskIf%2Fuploads%2FCB85mx0qN8cWlUbCXYfi%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=95b36fbd-93a0-4687-9aca-3758e3591a88)

Laika will show you the request pane with the request detail. You can send a request by simply clicking on the send button on the top-right.

Laika will send the selected request onto the chain, and trigger a wallet event which you can confirm to pass the transaction (except in the cases of READ requests, of course).

![Response received from the function call.](https://4276181174-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FBAYSQIWd7IsbIjaYskIf%2Fuploads%2FVGBumQmrOWzdCB2MTpis%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=45ed2285-c69c-443e-a81b-92dda471af7e)

And that is it! We, at Laika Blockchain Lab, are doing our best to make Laika easy to use and boost up your blockchain projects.