version.md

Choosing a Network

At any given time, there are a number of different active Akash networks running, each with a different akash version, chain-id, seed hosts, etc...

The generally available networks are:

Network	Description
mainnet	Akash Network mainnet network.
testnet	Testnet of the current mainnet version.
edgenet	Testnet of the next mainnet version.

When following guides in this document, it is important to use the right parameters for the network you want to connect to.

The ovrclk/net repository contains metadata about each available network. The format is standardized across the networks so that you can use the same method to fetch the information for any of them. See below for how to use ovrclk/net in the guides here.

Obtaining Data

First determine the base URL ($AKASH_NET) for the network you want to connect to - use the line from below that corresponds with the network you want to connect to:

# mainnet
AKASH_NET="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ovrclk/net/master/mainnet"

# testnet
AKASH_NET="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ovrclk/net/master/testnet"

# edgenet
AKASH_NET="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ovrclk/net/master/edgenet"

Version

AKASH_VERSION="$(curl -s "$AKASH_NET/version.txt")"

Chain ID

AKASH_CHAIN_ID="$(curl -s "$AKASH_NET/chain-id.txt")"

Genesis

curl -s "$AKASH_NET/genesis.json" > genesis.json

Seed Nodes

curl -s "$AKASH_NET/seed-nodes.txt" | paste -d, -s

Peer Nodes

curl -s "$AKASH_NET/peer-nodes.txt" | paste -d, -s

RPC Node

Print a random RPC endpoint

AKASH_NODE="$(curl -s "$AKASH_NET/rpc-nodes.txt" | shuf -n 1)"

echo $AKASH_NODE

API Node

Print a random API endpoint

curl -s "$AKASH_NET/api-nodes.txt" | shuf -n 1