miz1choobi/aura

Aura Network Daemon

Aura

This repository contains source code for Aurad (Aura Daemon). Aurad binary is the official client for Aura Network. Aurad is built using Cosmos SDK

Aura Network is a NFT-centric blockchain platform that provides infrastructure assisting to bring user assets to the crypto market.

Prerequisite

• Go 1.18

Install Aura daemon

Using Makefile

    make

The aurad bin file is located on ${source_directory}/build/ or GO_PATH (default ~/go/bin/)

Setup a LocalNet

Initialize the Chain

# <moniker> is the custom username of the node
# <chain-id> is the identity of the chain
aurad init <moniker> --chain-id <chain-id>

This command will initialize the home folder containing necessary components for your chain
(default: ~/.aura)

Customize the genesis file

A genesis file is a JSON file which defines the initial state of your blockchain. It can be seen as height 0 of your blockchain. The first block, at height 1, will reference the genesis file as its parent.

The docs about genesis customization: https://hub.cosmos.network/main/resources/genesis.html

Create your validator

Create a local key pair for creating validator:

aurad keys add <key_name> 

Add some tokens to the wallet:

aurad add-genesis-account <key_name> <amount><denom>

Create a validtor generation transaction:

aurad gentx <key_name> <amount><denom> --chain-id <chain-id>

Collect the gentx to genesis file:

aurad collect-gentxs

Run a node

aurad start 

Setup testnet using testnetCmd

Contribution

The Aurad is still in development by the Aura Network team. For more information on how to contribute to this project, please contact us at [email protected]

License

Aurad project source code files are made available under Apache-2.0 License, located in the LICENSE file. Basically, you can do whatever you want as long as you include the original copyright and license notice in any copy of the software/source.