Key Management

This article is a guide about key management strategy on the client side of your Decentralised Application on Agora

Setup Web3

web3.js is a javascript library that allows our client-side application to talk to the blockchain. We configure web3 to communicate via Metamask.

web3.js doc is here

Connect to Agora network

    // mainnet 
    const web3 = new Web3('https://mainnet.bosagora.org');
    // testnet
    const web3 = new Web3('https://testnet.bosagora.org');

Set up account

If the installation and instantiation of web3 were successful, the following should successfully return a random account:

    const account = web3.eth.accounts.create();

Recover account

If you have a backup private key to your account, you can use it to restore your account.

    const account = web3.eth.accounts.privateKeyToAccount("$private-key")

Full Example

const Web3 = require('web3');
async function main() {

    const web3 = new Web3('https://mainnet.bosagora.org:443');
    const loader = setupLoader({ provider: web3 }).web3;

    const account = web3.eth.accounts.create();
    console.log(account);
}