Development with Autonity

Start developing on the Autonity network, spin up a local development testnet and deploy contracts.

The steps in this section describe how to set up a local testnet for development and deploy contracts to your local or a public Autonity network.

It is assumed that you have:

• Setup Autonity CLI.

• Have an account that has been funded with auton, to pay for transaction gas costs:

  • If deploying to a public network you will need to fund your account from the testnet faucet.

  • If deploying to a custom network you will need to:

    • Fund your dev account(s) in the genesis configuration file’s alloc data structure.

    • If you are running the client in dev mode, there is a pre-funded developer account. See Command line options --dev, --dev.gaslimit, --dev.etherbase.

• An installation of the Autonity Go Client. See the Running a node guide for details of how to install Autonity in your environment and run it.