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Minting validators can be found in the validators folder, and supporting functions in the lib folder using .ak as a file extension.
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Make sure to install Aiken and have it available in your path Install Aiken.
To generate the smart contracts just run:
aiken build
To run the scripts you also need to install (Node.js)[https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager] and install the dependencies via npm install.
Afterwards, to generate a testnet wallet, you can run various scripts:
npm run generate-wallet
The address will be found in the wallet.addr and wallet.sk (private key) file. You can top-up some test ADA (here)[https://docs.cardano.org/cardano-testnets/tools/faucet/]
The following commands will require the BLOCKFROST_API_KEY environment variable to be set. Make sure to register an account on Blockfrost and get your key for either the preview or preprod network and use it consistently (cardano has multiple testnets).
npm run mint
To mint an example registry asset. The metadata can be configured in the mint-example.mjs file.
npm run defrag
To defrag the wallet (if there are no split up utxos containing only lovelace)
You can add tests in any module using the test keyword. For example:
test addition() {
1 + 1 == 2
}
To run all tests, simply do:
aiken check
If you're writing a library, you might want to generate an HTML documentation for it.
Use:
aiken docs