BEX Command CLI

Command CLI for BenchPay (BEX) blockchain. You can connect to the BenchChain devnet, mainnet or your custom private/public BEX-derived ledger/blockchain.

Features:

• connection to network or a node,
• get stats of a network,
• create or get status of an account,
• create vanity accounts (multi-cpu supported),
• send amount in USD, EUR or other FIAT currency at the market price (BEX only),
• register a delegate,
• vote for a delegate,
• sign and verify message using your address.

Installation

You need to have node (version 7.6.0 or newer) installed. Then:

$> yarn add global bexcli
$> bex
 _______    ______   ___   ___     
/_______/\ /_____/\ /__/\ /__/\    
\::: _  \ \\::::_\/_\ \::\\:.\ \   
 \::(_)  \/_\:\/___/\\_\::_\:_\/   
  \::  _  \ \\::___\/_ _\/__\_\_/\
   \::(_)  \ \\:\____/\\ \ \ \::\ \
    \_______\/ \_____\/ \_\/  \__\/

bex>

Usage

bex> help

  Commands:

    help [command...]                     Provides help for a given command.
    exit                                  Exits application.
    connect <benchpay-ledger>             Connect to network. Network is devnet or mainnet
    connect peer <ledger-peer-url>        Connect to a public peer. For example "connect peer nyc2.bex.life:6620"
    disconnect                            Disconnect from server or network
    network stats                         Get stats from network
    account status <address>              Get account status
    account vote <name>                   Vote for delegate <name>. Remove previous vote if needed. Leave empty to clear vote
    account send <amount> <recipient>     Send <amount> bex to <recipient>. <amount> format examples: 10, USD10.4, EUR100
    account delegate <username>           Register new delegate with <username>
    account create                        Generate a new random cold account
    account vanity <string>               Generate an address containing lowercased <string> (WARNING you could wait for long)
    message sign <message>                Sign a message
    message verify <message> <publickey>  Verify the <message> signed by the owner of <publickey> (you will be prompted to provide the signature)
    shARK                                 No you don't want to use this command

bex> connect devnet
Node: nyc1.bex.life:6622, height: 21078
bex devnet>

bex devnet> account create
Seed    - private: rely cup brand sentence wolf amateur clog knock execute avocado they ready
WIF     - private: SBHAcXWeCEBDaLVUm4B3idHoLde2qrmi2gkxz8KXtNYfjVMK16pH
Address - public : DMUeELFkFtN5obvStkV9Zt44GEjEaYgKhH

bex devnet> account send 100 AMUeELFkFtN5obvStkV9Zt44GEjEaYgKhH
passphrase: ************************************************************************
Transaction sent successfully with id 7adbf890c88dd345eacbac63e94610fa5f3905528cdc1c36740c3ba3fa3db302

bex devnet> account delegate nomoreheroes
passphrase: **************************************************************************
Transaction sent successfully with id b857f302611e4f36a33ea886f7bcb951633406ba1f5e40393893234a46ce54eb

bex devnet> account status DMUeELFkFtN5obvStkV9Zt44GEjEaYgKhH
{ address: 'DMUeELFkFtN5obvStkV9Zt44GEjEaYgKhH',
  unconfirmedBalance: '7500000000',
  balance: '7500000000',
  publicKey: '020cfc61215f2682bd70cce14aaa6cfa6fa3b0507771cb1943aee071a7dd57bcf6',
  username: 'benchx',
  vote: '0',
  producedblocks: 0,
  missedblocks: 0,
  rate: 52,
  approval: 0,
  productivity: 0 }

License

MIT License

• Copyright © 2018 BenchPay Foundation, LLC.
• Copyright © 2017 ARK.io
• Copyright © 2017 FX Thoorens

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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