Iron Fish Installation
Install or update Iron Fish (Win/Mac)
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Install Node.js 18 (on Windows, choose 64-bit/x64).
- On Mac and Linux, You can also install Node.js through nvm.
- On Windows, be sure to check "Also install required tools" during installation.
- On Linux, run the following to install the build-essential package:
sudo apt update sudo apt install build-essential -
Next, install a command-line git client.
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Finally, run the following:
npm install -g ironfish
You're all set! Run the Iron Fish CLI:
ironfish
> ironfish
CLI for running and interacting with an Iron Fish node VERSION ironfish/1.0.0 linux-x64 node-v18.16.0 USAGE $ ironfish [COMMAND] TOPICS blocks Show the block header of a requested hash or sequence ceremony Contribute randomness to the Iron Fish trusted setup chain Get the asset info config Print out the entire config mempool Show the status of the Mempool migrations List all the migration statuses miners Start a mining pool that connects to a node peers List all connected peers rpc Show the status of the RPC layer wallet List all the accounts on the node workers Show the status of the worker pool COMMANDS ceremony Contribute randomness to the Iron Fish trusted setup config Print out the entire config faucet Receive coins from the Iron Fish official testnet Faucet fees Get fee distribution for most recent blocks help Display help for ironfish. logs Tail server logs mainnet Migrate Iron Fish testnet data to mainnet migrations List all the migration statuses peers List all connected peers repl An interactive terminal to the node reset Reset the node to its initial state start Start the node status Show the status of the node stop Stop the node from running
Migrate to Mainnet
To make sure that your node is set up to run on mainnet use
ironfish mainnet
Update Iron Fish
When new versions of Iron Fish are released, you can update through NPM:
npm install -g ironfish
Iron Fish is now ready to use.