kit chain

short: kit c

kit chain starts a local fakechain with foundry's anvil, e.g.,

kit chain

The default port is 8545 and the chain ID is 31337.

Discussion

kit chain starts an anvil node with the arguments --load-state kinostate.json. This json file includes the KNS (Kinode Name System) & app-store contracts, and is included in the kit binary.

The kinostate.json files can be found written into /tmp/kinode-kit-cache/kinostate-{hash}.json upon running the command.

Note that while the kns-indexer and app-store apps in fake nodes use this chain to index events, any events loaded from a json statefile, aren't replayed upon restarting anvil.

Arguments

$ kit chain --help
Start a local chain for development

Usage: kit chain [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --port <PORT>        Port to run the chain on [default: 8545]
  -v, --version <VERSION>  Version of Kinode binary to run chain for (foundry version must match Kinode version) [default: latest] [possible values: latest, v0.9.9, v0.9.8, v0.9.7]
  -v, --verbose            If set, output stdout and stderr
  -h, --help               Print help

--port

Port to run anvil fakechain on. Defaults to 8545.

--version

Kinode binary version to run chain for. Different Kinode versions have different foundry compatibility due to breaking changes in chain state formatting. kit will prompt you to install the proper version of foundry.

--verbose

short: -v

Always output stdout and stderr if set.