# Quickstart Guide

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

![](/files/WNaOjCvSh4PYSzqumayM)

> 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>)

![](/files/OoOWSeNazi1OHNP7bvD9)

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!](/files/0tVvCQn8wCQI30bCA5cF)

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](/files/2gC3UuBURTKh3Jx5pgnc)

Let’s pick **getCount** for example.

![Picking the "getCount" function call in the left Workspace pane](/files/ZqyN9sdAjZDp1xhVL61U)

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.](/files/6RfAbpA3YPiUTouTGva6)

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.


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