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How can a developer access the Cardano network?
If you use Nix or NixOs, it is rather straightforward: Build the code for a cardano node using nix (link to current documentation)
Duplicating the official documentation:
git clone https://github.com/...
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How can a developer access the Cardano network?
There are also ways to use services where you can make API requests to interact with the Cardano blockchain. (without the need to run your own cardano-node)
You could for example sign in on Blockfrost ...
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How can a developer access the Cardano network?
Generally, there are several options you could pursue.
Start a stake pool on test-net and then launch one on main-net.
How to build a Cardano Stake Pool.
Get involved with project catalyst. Offer ...
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How can you listen to all incoming transactions of a wallet address?
There are different ways.
You can do what jnprogrammer said, or you can run the graphql setup https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-graphql providing an entire stack of tools including the API (...
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Nami wallet showing getBalance returning a NaN
getBalance function returns cbor encoded hex string, so you should actually decode it.
Easiest way to do it is by using Cardano Serialization Lib.
After you've downloaded the library you can decoded ...
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What are the security implications to having cardano-wallet run on a public server?
In most cases, you should never manage users wallets with a hosted service. The whole point of a decentralized blockchain is that users are managing their own assets.
The best practice is to generate ...
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Cardano Serialization Lib Usage
Generally I think you can say the point of the serialization lib is to help you manage the off-chain aspects of preparing transactions before you submit them to the network.
It's a standalone library ...
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Are there any API's I can integrate with to accept Cardano as a merchant?
To answer my own question, you can currently use https://nowpayments.io/, https://adapay.finance/, or to roll your own solution https://blockfrost.io/.
There's also an ongoing petition to get Cardano ...
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Are there any Java APIs allowing to make applications on top of Cardano?
Yes, try cardano-client-lib SDK written in Java.
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How can you listen to all incoming transactions of a wallet address?
I believe this guide would help you out:
https://developers.cardano.org/docs/integrate-cardano/listening-for-payments-wallet/
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Received the transaction id but the transaction never happened
The chain has been pretty congested since sundaeswap launched. It may take some time between transaction submission and inclusion into a block. If your TTL or --invalid-hereafter parameter is too ...
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I hear that Daedalus Is a Full Node Does That Mean I Can Set Up a DB Sync Server On Top of It?
Daedaldus consists of two processes, cardano-node and the wallet itself.
Yes, it is possible to connect a db-sync instance to the cardano-node.
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How do I get the http endpoint to work for cardano-wallet?
By default cardano-wallet listens on loopback ip only - 127.0.0.1, to listen on server external ip, you need to add --listen-address parameter
So at the end command should be:
cardano-wallet serve \
...
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How can you listen to all incoming transactions of a wallet address?
What info do you wanna get specifically? If it is just the UTXO's at an address and you are running a node then the following script suffices.
#!/bin/bash
cardano-cli query utxo --mainnet --address $(...
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How can you listen to all incoming transactions of a wallet address?
All the above solutions can do the job, but you'll end up polling the blockchain on each one. Another solution though is using tangocrypto services. Their webhooks feature will allow you to "...
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Is there an API or website where I can see all addresses that hold a specific native token/asset?
You are probably looking for the Blockfrost.io's /assets/{asset}/addresses endpoint that lists all addresses containing a specific asset.
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Is there a publicly available Cardano API with pre-indexed blockchain data?
Yes, have a look at blockfrost.io an API as a service that allows users to interact with the Cardano blockchain and parts of its ecosystem.
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How can you listen to all incoming transactions of a wallet address?
How about running a Cardano node and build a script that queries the target address and produces something consumable by your API?
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How to get all NFTs of a wallet address?
Try the /accounts/{stake_address}/addresses/assets call using Blockfrost.
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Blockfrost, GrapgQL or any API for cardano help, working with javascript
Using the Blockfrost SDK is pretty straight forward, as in this example:
import { BlockFrostAPI } from '../src/index';
async function run() {
const API = new BlockFrostAPI({
projectId: 'YOUR ...
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Storing Secrets in Smart Contracts
I think, this I not possible. If you want your smart contract to know about your balance or any off-chain fact (including random numbers), then you need to push this fact either to the blockchain or ...
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How can i generate new wallet address using cardano-wallet cli and cardano wallet api after created my wallet?
Once you have your cardano-wallet runnig, you can create a new wallet using CLI with the following command:
$ cardano-wallet wallet create from-recovery-phrase "My Wallet"
Please enter a 15–...
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Is the Transaction Hash from block frost the same as the transaction id?
Yes, the tx hash and tx id are the same. The terminology is getting used interchangably.
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How can i generate new wallet address using cardano-wallet cli and cardano wallet api after created my wallet?
Do you mean something like that?
# generate keys
cardano-cli address key-gen --verification-key-file payment.vkey --signing-key-file payment.skey
# build address from pubkey
cardano-cli address build -...
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I couldn't find the requested endpoint
The support for transactions-construct has been added just some days ago and is not released yet.
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Cardano Data for Data Analytics and Data Visualisation
there are providers such as
https://api.koios.rest/#overview
and
https://blockfrost.io/
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How to get all NFTs of a wallet address?
You can try using cardano-wallet package on a running node & then using this endpoint to list all assets on a wallet.
There are several ways to run cardano-wallet either a docker container or just ...
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Is there a publicly available Cardano API with pre-indexed blockchain data?
Alternatively you can also try a community driven project https://dandelion.link/
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Are there any APIs for Cardano NFT ticker?
Actually we need API to get Cardano's current price, current Marketcap, Volume, Supply,7 days price for graphical representation.
this kind of information is not directly related to Cardano in the ...
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How to obtain PubKeyHash from Address ShelleyAddr
There is now the function shelleyPayAddrToPlutusPubKHash in cardano-api which returns Maybe PubKeyHash because in the case of a script credential there is no corresponding public key hash.
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