# Axelar Amplifier Gateway

Axelar Amplifier Gateway is a smart contract that lives on the external chain that is connecting to the Axelar Network. It faciliates sending and receiving of cross-chain messages to other chains via the Axelar Network. `AxelarAmplifierGateway` is the EVM reference implementation of the external gateway.

Please see the [INTEGRATION.md](INTEGRATION.md) for more details on how to implement and integrate the external gateway contract for a given chain.

## Documentation & Build

Please refer to [README.md](../../README.md) for documentation and build instructions.

## Deployment

The official `AxelarAmplifierGateway` contract deployment scripts are located in this [repo](https://github.com/axelarnetwork/axelar-contract-deployments/tree/main/evm#evm-deployment-scripts).