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Generating Payment Keys and Address
Make sure you have configured your
cardano-cli, if you haven't, check the previous chapter.Load environment variables
You need to run this every time you open a new terminal to load environment variables :
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cd cli-workspace/testnet
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source env.sh
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Generate payment keys and address
Generate Payment Signing Key and Payment Verification Key:
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cardano-cli address key-gen \
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--verification-key-file ./verification-key \
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--signing-key-file ./signing-key
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Generate Payment Address and store it in
./address file:1
cardano-cli address build \
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--payment-verification-key-file ./verification-key \
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--testnet-magic $TESTNET_MAGIC \
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> ./address
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To see your address, you can run:
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cat ./address
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Your address should start with
addr_test.Fund your address
If you already have ADA tokens on testnet, you can send some to the address generated above. If you don't have any, you can request some on this page.
To check funds in your address, you can run:
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cardano-cli query utxo \
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--address $(< ./address) \
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--testnet-magic $TESTNET_MAGIC
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You should get something like this:
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TxHash TxIx Amount
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1c7e8dd3bd6e463099e99bb104020435fcf5fe83579b7d9c3fb6b836e5b47c3a 0 1000000000 lovelace
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It means I have 1,000,000,000 lovelace in my address, which equals to 1,000 ADA.