Getting Started

This document provides instructions for running a single node network on your local machine and then submitting your first few transactions to that network using the command line. Running a single node network is a great way to get familiar with ixo Blockchain and its functionality.
Prerequisites
In order to install the ixo binary, you'll need the following:
Git >=2
Make >=4
Go >=1.17
For more information, see Prerequisites.
Note: The ixo binary is installed into $(go env GOPATH)/bin, so make sure $(go env GOPATH)/bin is in your PATH (e.g. export PATH=$(go env GOPATH)/bin:$PATH).
Install IXO
The ixo binary serves as the node client and the application client. In other words, the ixo binary can be used to both run a node and interact with it.
Clone the ixo repository:
git clone https://github.com/ixofoundation/ixo-blockchain
Change to the genesis directory:
cd ixo-blockchain
Check out the latest stable version:
git checkout master
Install the ixo binary:
make install
Check to make sure the install was successful:
ixod version
You should see v1.0.8 printed to the console. Now that you have successfully installed the ixo binary, the next step will be to add a couple test accounts.
Quickstart
If you would like to learn about the setup process and manually set up a single node network, skip to the next section. Alternatively, you can run the following quickstart script:
./scripts/start_testnode.sh
The script provides two command-line options for specifying a keyring-backend (-k), and the name of the blockchain (-c). For example, to use the os keyring-backend with the name demo:
./scripts/start_testnode.sh -k os -c demo
After running the quickstart script, you can skip to Start Node.
Create Accounts
In this section, you will create two test accounts. You will name the first account validator and the second account delegator. You will create both accounts using the test backend, meaning both accounts will not be securely stored and should not be used in a production environment. When using the test backend, accounts are stored in the home directory (more on this in the next section).
Create validator account:
ixod keys add validator --keyring-backend test
Create delegator account:
ixod keys add delegator --keyring-backend test
After running each command, information about each account will be printed to the console. The next step will be to initialize the node.
Initialize Node
Initializing the node will create the config and data directories within the home directory. The config directory is where configuration files for the node are stored and the data directory is where the data for the blockchain is stored. The default home directory is ~/.ixod.
Initialize the node:
ixod init node --chain-id test
In this case, node is the name (or "moniker") of the node and test is the chain ID. Feel free to change these values but make sure to use the same value for chain-id in the following steps.
Update Genesis
When the node was initialized, a genesis.json file was created within the config directory. In this section, you will be adding two genesis accounts (accounts with an initial token balance) and a genesis transaction (a transaction that registers the validator account in the validator set).
Update native staking token to uixo:
For Mac OS:
sed -i "" "s/stake/uixo/g" ~/.ixod/config/genesis.json
For Linux variants:
sed -i "s/stake/uixo/g" ~/.ixod/config/genesis.json
Add validator account to genesis.json:
ixod add-genesis-account validator 5000000000uixo --keyring-backend test
Add delegator account to genesis.json:
ixod add-genesis-account delegator 2000000000uixo --keyring-backend test
Create genesis transaction:
ixod gentx validator 1000000uixo --chain-id test --keyring-backend test
Add genesis transaction to genesis.json:
ixod collect-gentxs
Now that you have updated the genesis.json file, you are ready to start the node. Starting a node with a new genesis file will create a new blockchain.
Start Node
Well, what are you waiting for?
Start the node:
ixod start
You should see logs printed in your terminal with information about services starting up followed by blocks being produced and committed to your local blockchain.
Test Commands
Now that you have a single node network running, you can open a new terminal window and interact with the node using the same ixo binary. Let's delegate some uixo tokens to the validator and then collect the rewards.
Get the validator address for the validator account:
ixod keys show validator --bech val --keyring-backend test
Using the validator address, delegate some uixo tokens:
ixod tx staking delegate [validator_address] 10000000uixo --from delegator --keyring-backend test --chain-id test
In order to query all delegations, you'll need the address for the delegator account:
ixod keys show delegator --keyring-backend test
Using the address, query all delegations for the delegator account:
ixod q staking delegations [delegator_address]
Query the rewards using the delegator address and the validator address:
ixod q distribution rewards [delegator_address] [validator_address]
Withdraw the rewards:
ixod tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from delegator --keyring-backend test --chain-id test
Check the account balance:
ixod q bank balances [delegator_address]
You have successfully delegated uixo tokens to the validator account from the delegator account and then collected the rewards.
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