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Setting up Plutus Playground
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Cardano CLI Testnet
Setting up Cardano Node
Configuring Cardano CLI
Generating Payment Keys and Address
Minting Native tokens
Cardano CLI Mainnet
Setting up Cardano Node
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Installing GHC and Cabal [Deprecated]
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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 :
cd cli-workspace/testnet
source env.sh
Generate payment keys and address
Generate Payment Signing Key and Payment Verification Key:
cardano-cli address key-gen \
--verification-key-file ./verification-key \
--signing-key-file ./signing-key
Generate Payment Address and store it in
./address
file:
cardano-cli address build \
--payment-verification-key-file ./verification-key \
--testnet-magic $TESTNET_MAGIC \
> ./address
To see your address, you can run:
cat ./address
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:
cardano-cli query utxo \
--address $(< ./address) \
--testnet-magic $TESTNET_MAGIC
You should get something like this:
TxHash TxIx Amount
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1c7e8dd3bd6e463099e99bb104020435fcf5fe83579b7d9c3fb6b836e5b47c3a 0 1000000000 lovelace
It means I have 1,000,000,000 lovelace in my address, which equals to 1,000 ADA.
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