diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
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index 80519ba9..00000000
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-version: 2.1
-
-commands:
-  setup-lints:
-    steps:
-      - run:
-          name: Install clippy
-          command: rustup component add clippy
-
-jobs:
-  build:
-    docker:
-      - image: circleci/rust:latest
-    steps:
-      - checkout
-      - setup-lints
-      - run:
-          name: Reduce codegen Units
-          # If we don't include this, the linker runs out of memory when building
-          # the project on CI. We don't include this normally though because
-          # it should be able to build with more units on other machines
-          command: printf "[profile.dev]\ncodegen-units = 1\n" >> Cargo.toml
-      - run:
-            name: tests
-            # skip these temporarily until we get ganache-cli and solc on CI
-            command: cargo test --all -- --skip deploy_and_call_contract --skip send_eth --skip watch_events --skip get_past_events --skip test_pending_tx
-      - run:
-          name: Check style
-          command: |
-              cargo fmt --all -- --check
-              cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
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+on: push
+
+name: Tests
+
+# set for fetching ABIs for abigen from etherscan
+env:
+  ETHERSCAN_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY }}
+
+jobs:
+  tests:
+    name: Check
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout sources
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Install ganache-cli
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+        with:
+          node-version: 10
+      - name: Install ganache
+        run: npm install -g ganache-cli
+
+      - name: Install Solc
+        run: |
+            mkdir -p "$HOME/bin"
+            wget -q https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/releases/download/v0.6.6/solc-static-linux -O $HOME/bin/solc
+            chmod u+x "$HOME/bin/solc"
+            export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
+            solc --version
+
+      - name: Install stable toolchain
+        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          profile: minimal
+          toolchain: stable
+          override: true
+          components: rustfmt, clippy
+
+      - name: cargo test
+        run: |
+            export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
+            cargo test
+
+      - name: cargo fmt
+        run: cargo fmt --all -- --check
+
+      - name: cargo clippy
+        run: cargo clippy -- -D warnings