This doc is for developers on how they can join the Loom Testnet to do deployment. If you are looking for information on how to run nodes, or to become a validator please checkout Validator Guide

Prerequisite

 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loomnetwork/loom-sdk-documentation/master/scripts/get_loom.sh | sh

How to generate a private key with Loom and get your public address

$ ./loom genkey -k priv_key -a pub_key

result

local address: 0x3B334bEd1e7d3e7d9214495120160D9236aCbC31
local address base64: OzNL7R59Pn2SFElRIBYNkjasvDE=

and this will create files named priv_key and pub_key, the priv_key file contains your private key that you'll use to deploy contracts to the DAppChain.

Deploy Truffle Example to Loom Testnet

  1. Make sure you have node and yarn/npm installed

  2. Obtain the testnet URL from Loom Testnet page

  3. Get the source: bash git clone https://github.com/loomnetwork/truffle-dappchain-example cd truffle-dappchain-example # copy the private key generated earlier to the root directory of the example repo cp ../priv_key extdev_private_key

  4. If you wish to deploy the example contracts to Loom Testnets skip this step. Otherwise, add the network you wish to deploy to in truffle-config.js.

  5. Install node modules: bash yarn

  6. Run deploy: bash yarn deploy:extdev