impactprotocol

Install Instructions

Minimum hardware requirements(recommended)

• RAM: 4GB RAM(or 8GB for better performance)
• CPU: 2Cores cpu
• Disk: 256GB SSD Disk

If on Linux or Mac:

1. follow instructions 1-10 from link below: https://docs.substrate.io/install/linux/

If on Windows

1. follow these steps: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/how-to-install-wsl2-on-windows-10 Make sure WSL2 is running:

   wsl -l -v
   

2. run the next commands inside the VM:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt install --assume-yes git clang curl libssl-dev llvm libudev-dev make protobuf-compiler
   sudo apt install build-essential
   curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
   source $HOME/.cargo/env
   rustc --version
   rustup default stable
   rustup update
   rustup update nightly
   rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly
   rustup showrustup +nightly show
   

Next steps for Linux & Windows

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/GlobalBoost/impactprotocol
   

2. Change to the impactprotocol directory:

   cd impactprotocol
   

3. Build the project:

   cargo build --release
   

   This will take some time to build the binary depending upon your system configuration.

4. Once the build is done in the above step, run the below command to generate the mining key

   ./target/release/impact generate-mining-key --chain=impact-testnet
   

5. Import your mining key. Replace your seed which you generated above:

   ./target/release/impact import-mining-key <replace_your_seed_phrase> \--base-path /tmp/impactnode \--chain=impact-testnet
   

6. Then put your public key you generated before in the command below as author

   ./target/release/impact \
   --base-path /tmp/impactnode \
   --chain=impact-testnet \
   --port 30333 \
   --ws-port 9945 \
   --rpc-port 9933 \
   --telemetry-url "wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0" \
   --validator \
   --author public key here \
   --rpc-methods Unsafe \
   --name ImpactNode \
   --password-interactive
   

   This will ask for a keystore password, enter any random password

7. Now you should begin to mine. You are running an Impact Protocol test net node, please check in the console and you will be seeing the blocks getting finalized

8. You can check your node running by going into the link below

   Polkadotjs. If you dont see anything loading check your port address in this case it is 9945, you may have some other port configured, check and replace accordingly.

   You should see something like shown below

9. Now you need to install an extension: https://polkadot.js.org/extension on Google Chrome or Firefox. Import account with pre-existing seed that you generated in step 4. Enter your public key and set a password. Its shown below