diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cedb71e..4291129 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ debug/
 target/
 schema/
 
+artifacts/
+artifacts-local/
+
 # Remove Cargo.lock from gitignore if creating an executable, leave it for libraries
 # More information here https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/guide/cargo-toml-vs-cargo-lock.html
 Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1fb8027
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+build-opt:
+# https://github.com/CosmWasm/rust-optimizer
+	docker run --rm -v "$(CURDIR)":/code \
+	 --mount type=volume,source="$$(basename "$(CURDIR)")_cache",target=/code/target \
+	 --mount type=volume,source=registry_cache,target=/usr/local/cargo/registry \
+	 cosmwasm/workspace-optimizer:0.15.0
+
+build:
+#	@RUSTFLAGS='-C link-arg=-s' cargo +stable build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release --lib
+	cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release --lib
+	@mkdir -p artifacts-local
+	@cp target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/*.wasm ./artifacts-local
+
+check:
+	cosmwasm-check target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/*.wasm
+
+unit-test:
+	cargo test --lib