title: How do I add ether to my localhost Metamask wallet with Hardhat?
body: <p>I've <a href="https://hardhat.org/getting-started/#connecting-a-wallet-or-dapp-to-hardhat-network" rel="noreferrer">connected metamask to a node</a> created with hardhat. I can connect to this node on <code>http://localhost:8545</code> network in metamask after setting the chain id to match the hardhat network chain id (31337)</p>
  <p>How can I send ether to the accounts/addresses on the localhost network so that these accounts have enough ether to deploy a contract?</p>