⛓️ChainID and Address
ChainID
Bronos has different Chain ID to distinguish between devnet, testnet and mainnet. When running the Bronos in your local environment, you will also need to decide your own Chain ID.
For example, our devnet Chain ID is bronostestnet_9000-1.
Address
BIP-0173 defines a new format for segregated witness output addresses that contains a human-readable part that identifies the coin type. Bronos uses different address prefix compared to other chains, Its address prefix is brc.
Bronos uses the Bech32 address format wherever users must handle binary data. Bech32 encoding provides robust integrity checks on data and the human readable part(HRP) that provides contextual hints that can assist UI developers with providing informative error messages. Specifically, we have the following HRP prefix for different addresses types in the mainnet:
We can use the keys show command for bronosd with the flag --bech <type> (acc|val|cons) to obtain the addresses and keys as mentioned above: for example,
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