Getting Connected to FIO Testnet

The FIO project is really interesting to me because they’re focused on making it easier for everyday users to use cryptocurrency. I’ve dabbled in Bitcoin and altcoins a bit and tried to follow the progress and adoption but it’s always felt too complicated. FIO abstracts the keys from the transaction process. Instead of sending a transaction to a wallet, you send it to an FIO registered address. Feel free to send me some crypto: joe@edge The catch here is the wallets on both sides of the transactions have to have implemented the FIO protocol.

If you’re a developer and want to poke around with FIO there is a test environment aptly named TestNet. You can use the Testnet site to create keys and register a FIO address for your keys. You can also install CLI tools to run the commands locally. Start by cloning the FIO Ready repo and running the build script. This will create binaries for clio and keosd CLI tools. We need to create two new FIO keypairs which clio makes trivial via:

$ clio create key —to-console
Private key: ****************************************************
Public key: FIO5LfWgrb7afdYE4Qe67dBewyXQH8hVmj15YiUoUNkZacyVc56CN
FIO Public Address (actor name): vjnurgfeatdv
$ clio create key —to-console
Private key: ****************************************************
Public key: FIO6GaLViwCHfUVyZTvtba4qEdx3kLWwZCdjKq5VzhnTaaMxiqrf9
FIO Public Address (actor name): psditbqig2be

Once you have your keys. Visiting testnet and clicking “Register Address” will allow you to input a public key and register an FIO address. I used joeptest01@fiotestnet and joeptest02@fiotestnet . on Mainnet, the production FIO environment there are costs involved in registering an address. Since we’re on Testnet we have to manually add funds to these addresses before they can make any signed API calls. Clicking on the “Faucet” link will open a modal where we’ll paste one of our two public keys and click “Send Coins”, do this for both keys so they’ll both have funds.

Now you’re ready to start working with FIO Testnet!

Happy Blockchaining!