# Cookbook Overview

The [RAILGUN C](https://github.com/Railgun-Community/quickstart)[ookbook](https://github.com/Railgun-Community/cookbook) is an open-source project developed by RAILGUN contributors.&#x20;

RAILGUN Cookbook enables web3 developers to build simple zkApps that are compatible with RAILGUN private balances on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon and more.&#x20;

With Cookbook, users can activate your smart contract privately and anonymously.

### Use cases

RAILGUN Cookbook converts a series of smart contract calls into a "Recipe" that can have both ERC-20 and NFT inputs/outputs. There are a variety of use cases that are possible – all entirely private and anonymous through the RAILGUN Privacy System:

* *PRIVATE* Vault Deposits&#x20;
* *PRIVATE* Stablecoin Minting
* *PRIVATE* Liquidity Provisioning (LP)
* *PRIVATE* Liquid Staking
* *PRIVATE* Wrapping/Unwrapping tokens
* *+* many more

### Get the Recipe Builder

```bash
yarn add @railgun-community/cookbook@2.6.0
```

### Links

***Git repo***: <https://github.com/Railgun-Community/cookbook><br>


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