README.md

EtherCore Testnet

Welcome to EtherCore Testnet!

Portal: https://testnet.ethercore.io/

Meta data

• Name: EtherCoreTest
• Machine-readable name: ethercoretest
• Stage: launched
  • Genesis hash: 0x882bef94a19a1ea0dce9cb602fec35f82164535e641e4898ddc8a0ab6ecbd2f5
  • Network ID: 468
  • Chain ID: 468
  • Homestead: 0
  • EIP150: 0
  • EIP155: 0
  • EIP158: 0
  • Byzantium: 0
  • Constantinople: 0
  • Petersburg: 0
  • Istanbul: 0
  • ProgPoW: 0
  • EtherCore: 0
• Status Dashboard: http://testnet-stats.ethercore.io
• Block Explorer: https://testnet-explorer.ethercore.io
• Mining Pool: https://testnet-pool.ethercore.io
• Wallet: https://wallet.ethercore.io/?network=ethercore_testnet
• Faucet: https://testnet-faucet.ethercore.io
• Public RPC Endpoint: https://testnet-rpc.ethercore.io
• Telegram Support: https://t.me/ethercore

Connecting the clients

All clients supporting the go-ethercore protocol can sync with EtherCore Testnet.

Go-EtherCore

You can connect Geth to EtherCore Testnet by executing geth --test. https://github.com/ethercore/go-ethercore/releases/latest

Connecting Metamask

You could connect EtherCore Testnet with your Metamask plugin installed on your browser.

Add the following config value to Custom RPC settings.

• Network Name: EtherCore

• New RPC URL: https://testnet-rpc.ethercore.io

• ChainID: 468

• Symbol: ERE

• Block Explorer URL: https://testnet-explorer.ethercore.io

Now you could use your Metamask plugin to receive testnet coins, deploying contract with https://remix.ethereum.org, and interacting DApps deployed on EtherCore Testnet!

Receiving Testnet Coins

Create new wallet from https://wallet.ethercore.io/?network=ethercore_testnet or Metamask and receive some testnet coins from https://testnet-faucet.ethercore.io to play with

Mining on EtherCore Testnet

Not only requesting coins from faucet, you could also mine some testnet coins via testnet pool https://testnet-pool.ethercore.io

Like mining on Mainnet, fetch the EthCoreMiner and start your miner with the following configuration.

Here is the example bat file for windows

:start
TIMEOUT 10
ethcoreminer.exe -P stratum1+tcp://0xbf0d596191fed3c4ed421a42ee4b9bf21bc1139d.rig1@testnet-pool.ethercore.io:8008
goto start