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How to get on the Cardano KEVM Testnet

The first Cardano testnet launched on May 28, and now here is your guide to getting up and started with the KEVM! Get on KEVM Testnet First, you need a *nix environment to work in. The easiest to get started with is Ubuntu. Setting up Ubuntu is easy, but beyond the scope of this article. You can cheat by getting a server from DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure, Aliyun, etc and selecting Ubuntu 16.04.4 x64 as your OS. Once your server is ready, install Java: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer We need to make sure we can actually use Java, so edit /etc/environment and add: JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java” Then: source /etc/environment Setup Mantis Download Mantis: wget https://github.com/input-output-hk/mantis/releases/download/iele_testnet_v0.1/mantis_iele-testnet_v0.1.zip Unzip and cd into directory mantis-1.0-daedalus-rc1: unzip mantis_iele-testnet_v0.1.zip Run the ...

How to get on the Cardano KEVM Testnet