hardhat account balance does not change

Question

I executed some contract creation scripts by terminal through hardhat, "npx hardhat run...." what I noticed is balances of hardhat accounts are not reduced. Meaning as there is no gas spent for contract creation. Then I connected to hardhat node through remix and executed simple contract creation and balance reduced. My original script creates proxy contracts and that is the only thing I can see as different. I double checked in script is the chainId same on both terminal script and remix and both are 1337. Run out of ideas.

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Problem is seems that command npx hardhat --network hardhat run /somescript.js not working, even if you have local hardhat network defined in hardhat.config what is working is npx hardhat --network localhost run /somescript.js . Assuming you have like me, running hardhat node locally

    //in hardhat.config
    require("@nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox");
    require("@openzeppelin/hardhat-upgrades");

     module.exports = {
       defaultNetwork: "hardhat",
       networks: {
          hardhat: {
            chainId: 1337,
          },


//deploy.js
const Destroyer = await ethers.getContractFactory("Destroyer", {
    signer: admin,
  });
  const destroyer = await upgrades.deployProxy(Destroyer, [exchange.address], {
    kind: "uups",
  });
  await destroyer.deployed();

  console.log("Destroyer: " + destroyer.address);

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, your third comment in the thread errs toward the problem: you have no blockchain running.

The execution of npx hardhat --network hardhat run /somescript.js defined the network under the --network flag as hardhat, which isn't a network - simply a dev environment - you need to define a chain here (e.g. localhost, which would be a hardhat node, i.e. is why your other script created logged transactions, or goerli, mainnet etc.)