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I have set up a Cardano development environment and build a node which is fully synced to the testnet network. How can I make my Daedalus wallet use/point to that local testnet node instead of synching again to the online/main testnet?

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To anyone who may need a similar setup, I got this working after many trials. From my local cardano node, I copied the contents of the db directory into the chain directory of the Daedalus wallet. I then updated the configuration file topology.yaml to use localhost in the addr parameter.

It works and I can receive tAda from the testnet faucet.

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Daedalus is a full node itself, this mean that he doesn't connect to an external node to sync the blockchain.

As the official website says: "Daedalus is a full node wallet. This means that unlike light wallets (e.g.Yoroi, Adalite etc.) Daedalus downloads a full copy of the Cardano blockchain and independently validates every transaction in its history."

Here I found a Reddit Link where a similar question was made.

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  • Well true, Daedalus is a full node, but on a fresh install ,it needs to connect to the Cardano network to sync to the latest blocks. What I was trying is to get it to use my local node which has already synced.
    – Skelli
    Nov 21, 2021 at 12:03

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