Tutorial: Step-by-step create a wallet with Lumos

We will create a simple wallet to help manage assets on the ckb chain. We won't delve into the shape of the wallet product in this tutorial, but we have implemented some simple logic that most wallets have

Generate private key and address
Check own's ckb balance
Transfer ckb to other users

This simple example can help to understand how to develop ckb dapp with Lumos.

1. Create a new Lumos project

We will use the Node.js package manager (npm) to install Lumos, which is both a package manager and an online repository for JavaScript code.

tip

If you don't have Node.js, you can get help here

You can use other package managers in Node.js, but we recommend that you use npm to follow this tutorial.

Create a new folder by opening a new terminal and running the following command.

mkdir lumos-tutorial
cd lumos-tutorial

Then initialize an npm project, as shown below. You will be prompted to answer some questions.

tip

Use the tabs in the snippet to select your preferred package manager.

npm
yarn

  npm init

  yarn init

Now we can install Lumos

npm
yarn

  npm install @ckb-lumos/lumos

  yarn add @ckb-lumos/lumos

2. Generate a wallet account

Run the following command to create a new file：

touch wallet.ts

For a wallet, the most important and commonly used function is to view your account and balance. This tutorial generates private key and address by @ckb-lumos/hd

import { hd } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';
const { mnemonic, ExtendedPrivateKey } = hd;

export const generatePrivateKey = () => {
  const m = mnemonic.generateMnemonic()
  const seed = mnemonic.mnemonicToSeedSync(m)
  return ExtendedPrivateKey.fromSeed(seed).privateKey
}

CKB has the testnet Arggon and the mainnet Lina, Lumos can work on different environment.

This tutorial will use the testnet.

lumos has a config module to help us manage the config of the different envrioment

import { config } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';

config.initializeConfig(config.predefined.AGGRON4);

After setting up the environment, we need to implement a generate address function

import { hd, config, helpers } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';

const getAddressByPrivateKey = (privateKey: string) => {
  const args = hd.key.privateKeyToBlake160(privateKey);
  const template = config.predefined.AGGRON4.SCRIPTS["SECP256K1_BLAKE160"]!;
  const lockScript = {
    codeHash: template.CODE_HASH,
    hashType: template.HASH_TYPE,
    args: args,
  };

  return helpers.encodeToAddress(lockScript);
}

Now we can try to run the code just wrote

caution

When you generate a private key, keep it in a safe place and do not disclose it to anyone, otherwise the asset may not be unlocked or lost.

const privateKey = generatePrivateKey()
const address = getAddressByPrivateKey(privateKey);
console.log('privateKey: ', privateKey)
console.log('address: ', address)

Iog printed on the screen, Let's copy the privateKey and keep it in a safe place for now

info

It's a sample print, dont use this sample account directly.

privateKey: 0x9ab62c912c48d615a030318af514758e8c7b9f03d37a95dd1b89e775b669e0c3
address:  ckb1qzda0cr08m85hc8jlnfp3zer7xulejywt49kt2rr0vthywaa50xwsq0820lwy5m5uqnhpap2h0kms9ta3u3pp2ss889v4

3. Check CKB Balance

In the previous section we generated account, but for a wallet it's not enough, we need to know how much CKB balance we have

ckb node provides some rpc methods for support users to search some on-chain data, but many on-chain data are very troublesome to index. so ckb also provides an indexer rpc to help easy search it

tip

You can view the public rpc of the testnet and mainnet here

import { RPC, Indexer } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';

const CKB_RPC_URL = "https://testnet.ckb.dev/rpc";
const CKB_INDEXER_URL = "https://testnet.ckb.dev/indexer";

const rpc = new RPC(CKB_RPC_URL);
const indexer = new Indexer(CKB_INDEXER_URL, CKB_RPC_URL);

In CKB, we call the UTXO is Cell, and the CKB balance as the capacity property of the Cell, when we want to know how much balance we have we need to find all our Cells

import { BI, helpers } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';

export async function getCapacities(address: string): Promise<BI> {
  const collector = indexer.collector({
    lock: helpers.parseAddress(address),
  });

  let capacities = BI.from(0);
  for await (const cell of collector.collect()) {
    capacities = capacities.add(cell.cellOutput.capacity);
  }

  return capacities;
}

Congratulations! we write a function to get the balance of account, now we can call it to get our balances

note

The unit of capacity in CKB is Shannon, 1CKB = 10^8 Shannon, so here we have to divide by 10^8 to get the unit of CKB

console.log(`address: ${address}`)
getCapacities(address).then(capacities => console.log(`balance: ${capacities.div(10 ** 8).toString()} CKB`))

Maybe you'll get an output like this

address: <your-address>
balance: 0 CKB

4. Pick up some CKB from the test net faucet

It looks like we don't have any CKB yet, don't feel bad, faucet can give me some ckb, click here to access

faucet

You may see a page like this, now fill in the address we generated before into the middle input box and click the Claim button, then you will see an additional piece of data in the page like this

after-claim

After waiting about 10s, the status of this data will change from Pending to Processed, so let's run our wallet project again and check our balance

address: <your-address>
balance: 10000 CKB

Our wallet is working fine, we have a CKB now, but just checking the balance is useless, we still need to upgrade to support sending transactions.

5. Create a transfer transaction

Suppose bob is a pizzeria and you have ordered a pizza from bob with 100 CKB and now need to pay bob for the 100 ckb, bob tells you his address is: ckt1qzda0cr08m85hc8jlnfp3zer7xulejywt49kt2rr0vthywaa50xwsqgy5rtexzvhk7jt7gla8wlq5lztf79tjhg9fmd4f

@ckb-lumos provides some common methods, we can use it to help build this transaction

import { helpers, commons } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';

let txSkeleton = helpers.TransactionSkeleton({ cellProvider: indexer });
txSkeleton = await commons.common.transfer(
    txSkeleton,
    ['<your-address>'],
    'ckt1qzda0cr08m85hc8jlnfp3zer7xulejywt49kt2rr0vthywaa50xwsqgy5rtexzvhk7jt7gla8wlq5lztf79tjhg9fmd4f',
    BigInt(100 * 10 ** 8),
);

Now that we have build a base transaction, and in order for this transaction to be successfully packaged on the chain, we also need to pay some fees to the miner.

Fee are calculated by the size of the transaction. And lumos provides the payFeeByFeeRate method to help pay fee

import { helpers, commons } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';

txSkeleton = await commons.common.payFeeByFeeRate(
  txSkeleton,
  ['<your-address>'],
  1000,
);

We have build a transfer transaction, to make sure it's ok, we need to sign the transaction

import { BI, hd, config, helpers, RPC, Indexer, commons } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';

txSkeleton = commons.common.prepareSigningEntries(txSkeleton);
const message = txSkeleton.get("signingEntries").get(0)?.message;
const Sig = hd.key.signRecoverable(message!, privateKey);
const tx = helpers.sealTransaction(txSkeleton, [Sig]);

const txHash = await rpc.sendTransaction(tx, "passthrough");
console.log(`txHash is: ${txHash}`)

Let's run the transfer function and we'll see an output like txHash is: 0x998dd1ec986ad0f1aff5f527dc3e9fe13cba0d20ee2e7ee0ce83af213cd399c4, let's go to [block explorer](https ://pudge.explorer.nervos.org/) to look up the transaction

example

We can see that the transaction did consume a 10000ckb cell and generated a 100ckb cell for bob as well as generated change for itself

Congratulations, you can now lie on the couch waiting to enjoy a delicious pizza!

Complete sample code, click to expand

wallet.ts
import { BI, hd, config, helpers, RPC, Indexer, commons, Address, HexString } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';
const { mnemonic, ExtendedPrivateKey } = hd;

config.initializeConfig(config.predefined.AGGRON4);

const CKB_RPC_URL = "https://testnet.ckb.dev/rpc";
const CKB_INDEXER_URL = "https://testnet.ckb.dev/indexer";

const rpc = new RPC(CKB_RPC_URL);
const indexer = new Indexer(CKB_INDEXER_URL, CKB_RPC_URL);

export const generatePrivateKey = () => {
  const m = mnemonic.generateMnemonic()
  const seed = mnemonic.mnemonicToSeedSync(m)
  return ExtendedPrivateKey.fromSeed(seed).privateKey
}

const getAddressByPrivateKey = (privateKey: string) => {
  const args = hd.key.privateKeyToBlake160(privateKey);
  const template = config.predefined.AGGRON4.SCRIPTS["SECP256K1_BLAKE160"]!;
  const lockScript = {
    codeHash: template.CODE_HASH,
    hashType: template.HASH_TYPE,
    args: args,
  };

  return helpers.encodeToAddress(lockScript);
}

export async function getCapacities(address: string): Promise<BI> {
  const collector = indexer.collector({
    lock: helpers.parseAddress(address),
  });

  let capacities = BI.from(0);
  for await (const cell of collector.collect()) {
    capacities = capacities.add(cell.cellOutput.capacity);
  }

  return capacities;
}

const transfer = async(from: Address, to: Address, capacity: number, privateKey: HexString) => {
  let txSkeleton = helpers.TransactionSkeleton({ cellProvider: indexer });
  txSkeleton = await commons.common.transfer(
    txSkeleton,
    [from],
    to,
    BigInt(capacity),
  );
  
  txSkeleton = await commons.common.payFeeByFeeRate(
    txSkeleton,
    [from],
    1000,
  );
  
  txSkeleton = commons.common.prepareSigningEntries(txSkeleton);
  const message = txSkeleton.get("signingEntries").get(0)?.message;
  const Sig = hd.key.signRecoverable(message!, privateKey);
  const tx = helpers.sealTransaction(txSkeleton, [Sig]);

  return rpc.sendTransaction(tx, "passthrough");
}

// input your privateKey or generate a new privateKey
const privateKey = `0x9ab62c912c48d615a030318af514758e8c7b9f03d37a95dd1b89e775b669e0c3`
const address = getAddressByPrivateKey(privateKey);
const bobAddress = 'ckt1qzda0cr08m85hc8jlnfp3zer7xulejywt49kt2rr0vthywaa50xwsqgy5rtexzvhk7jt7gla8wlq5lztf79tjhg9fmd4f'

console.log('address: ', address)
getCapacities(address).then(capacities => console.log(`balance: ${capacities.div(10 ** 8).toString()} CKB`))
transfer(address, bobAddress, 100 * 10 ** 8, privateKey).then((txHash: string) => console.log('txHash: ', txHash));

Advance: Upgrade wallet for support Token (like ERC20)

In the last section we created a simple wallet to view CKB balance and transfer CKB, in this section we will upgrade the wallet to support Token viewing and transfer, here are some of the features to be implemented

Issue a new Token
Transfer Token to Alice
Check Alice's Token balance

Token is a similar to ERC20 in the ethereum ecosystem. The token in ckb is called Sudt (Simple User Defined Token), and the data structure for storing Sudt cell looks like this.

capacity:
    ckb amount
data:
    udt amount (uint128)
type:
    code_hash:
        sudt code hash
    args:
        issuer lock hash
lock:
    user defined

Issue a new Token

Run the following command to create a new file.

touch sudt-wallet.ts

First set up the lumos as before

import { config } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';

config.initializeConfig(config.predefined.AGGRON4);

const CKB_RPC_URL = "https://testnet.ckb.dev/rpc";
const CKB_INDEXER_URL = "https://testnet.ckb.dev/indexer";

const rpc = new RPC(CKB_RPC_URL);
const indexer = new Indexer(CKB_INDEXER_URL, CKB_RPC_URL);

@ckb-lumos/common-scripts provides some simple functions to help us build an issue transaction

const issueToken = async (issuer: Address, amount: number, privateKey: string) => {
  let txSkeleton = helpers.TransactionSkeleton({ cellProvider: indexer });
  txSkeleton = await commons.sudt.issueToken(
    txSkeleton,
    issuer,
    amount,
  );

  txSkeleton = await commons.common.payFeeByFeeRate(
    txSkeleton,
    [issuer],
    1000,
  );

  txSkeleton = commons.common.prepareSigningEntries(txSkeleton);
  const message = txSkeleton.get("signingEntries").get(0)?.message;
  const Sig = hd.key.signRecoverable(message!, privateKey);
  const tx = helpers.sealTransaction(txSkeleton, [Sig]);

  return rpc.sendTransaction(tx, "passthrough");
}

Let's add a few logs and run the code

const privateKey = '0x9ab62c912c48d615a030318af514758e8c7b9f03d37a95dd1b89e775b669e0c3';
issueToken(getAddressByPrivateKey(privateKey), 1000, privateKey).then((txHash: string) => console.log('txHash: ', txHash));

We can get an output like this, search it in explorer and indeed find sudt have issued

txHash:  0x53dbf57c44938bc95cb3e33a0ac10ce5c3c37e88224ea2e785a6499ac4ca1c4d

sudt-transaction

Transfer Token to Alice

info

Suppose the address of alice is ckt1qzda0cr08m85hc8jlnfp3zer7xulejywt49kt2rr0vthywaa50xwsq2x0z0rmc44ek25rmdk7dky5wnhdlrmqncyhcvkp

@ckb-lumos/common-scripts also provides some simple functions to help transfer sudt

export const transferToken = async (issuer: Address, to: Address, amount: number, privateKey: string) => {
  let txSkeleton = helpers.TransactionSkeleton({ cellProvider: indexer });
  const scriptLockHash = utils.computeScriptHash(helpers.parseAddress(issuer))

  txSkeleton = await commons.sudt.transfer(
    txSkeleton,
    [issuer],
    scriptLockHash,
    to,
    BI.from(amount),
  )

  txSkeleton = await commons.common.payFeeByFeeRate(
    txSkeleton,
    [issuer],
    1000,
  );
  
  txSkeleton = commons.common.prepareSigningEntries(txSkeleton);
  const message = txSkeleton.get("signingEntries").get(0)?.message;
  const Sig = hd.key.signRecoverable(message!, privateKey);
  const tx = helpers.sealTransaction(txSkeleton, [Sig]);

  return rpc.sendTransaction(tx, "passthrough");
}

run this code

// change to yours privateKey
const privateKey = '0x9ab62c912c48d615a030318af514758e8c7b9f03d37a95dd1b89e775b669e0c3';
const aliceAddress = 'ckt1qzda0cr08m85hc8jlnfp3zer7xulejywt49kt2rr0vthywaa50xwsq2x0z0rmc44ek25rmdk7dky5wnhdlrmqncyhcvkp';
transferToken(getAddressByPrivateKey(privateKey), aliceAddress, 10, privateKey).then((txHash: string) => console.log('txHash: ', txHash));

We can get an output like this, search the explorer, and indeed transferring 10 usdt to alice's account

txHash:  0xbccac791e1eb4e005d0f8208c9cb3178af046f814fa1c01c2b5f3f6a966c3486

Check Alice's Token balance

Get token amount is also finding the cell where the token is stored, but unlike finding the ckb capacities, each sudt has a type script, and the amount of the token is stored in data instead of capacity

export const getTokenAmount = async (address: Address, sudtArgs: string) => {
  const collector = indexer.collector({
    lock: helpers.parseAddress(address),
    type: {
      codeHash: config.predefined.AGGRON4.SCRIPTS['SUDT'].CODE_HASH,
      hashType: config.predefined.AGGRON4.SCRIPTS['SUDT'].HASH_TYPE,
      args: sudtArgs,
    }
  });

  let amount = BI.from(0);
  for await (const cell of collector.collect()) {
    amount = amount.add(number.Uint128LE.unpack(cell.data));
  }

  return amount;
}

Let's run it and see how many sudt's alice has

tip

The args of SUDT are the lock script hash of the token issuer, and we can use the built-in utils library in Lumos to help us calculate the hash

import { utils } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';
const privateKey = '0x9ab62c912c48d615a030318af514758e8c7b9f03d37a95dd1b89e775b669e0c3';
const issuerAddress = getAddressByPrivateKey(privateKey);
const aliceAddress = 'ckt1qzda0cr08m85hc8jlnfp3zer7xulejywt49kt2rr0vthywaa50xwsq2x0z0rmc44ek25rmdk7dky5wnhdlrmqncyhcvkp';

const scriptLockHash = utils.computeScriptHash(helpers.parseAddress(issuerAddress))
getTokenAmount(aliceAddress, scriptLockHash).then((v) => {console.log('sudt balance:', v.toString())})

We can get an output like this, which is the 10 sudt we just transferred to alice

sudt balance: 10

So we have successfully added the functions of issue SUDT/transfer SUDT/check SUDT balance to the wallet

Complete sample code, click to expand

sudt-wallet.ts
import { config, Address, RPC, Indexer, helpers, commons, hd, BI, utils } from '@ckb-lumos/lumos';
import { number } from "@ckb-lumos/codec";

config.initializeConfig(config.predefined.AGGRON4);

const CKB_RPC_URL = "https://testnet.ckb.dev/rpc";
const CKB_INDEXER_URL = "https://testnet.ckb.dev/indexer";

const rpc = new RPC(CKB_RPC_URL);
const indexer = new Indexer(CKB_INDEXER_URL, CKB_RPC_URL);

export const issueToken = async (issuer: Address, amount: number, privateKey: string) => {
  let txSkeleton = helpers.TransactionSkeleton({ cellProvider: indexer });
  txSkeleton = await commons.sudt.issueToken(
    txSkeleton,
    issuer,
    amount,
  );

  txSkeleton = await commons.common.payFeeByFeeRate(
    txSkeleton,
    [issuer],
    1000,
  );
  
  txSkeleton = commons.common.prepareSigningEntries(txSkeleton);
  const message = txSkeleton.get("signingEntries").get(0)?.message;
  const Sig = hd.key.signRecoverable(message!, privateKey);
  const tx = helpers.sealTransaction(txSkeleton, [Sig]);

  return rpc.sendTransaction(tx, "passthrough");
}


export const transferToken = async (issuer: Address, to: Address, amount: number, privateKey: string) => {
  let txSkeleton = helpers.TransactionSkeleton({ cellProvider: indexer });
  const scriptLockHash = utils.computeScriptHash(helpers.parseAddress(issuer))

  txSkeleton = await commons.sudt.transfer(
    txSkeleton,
    [issuer],
    scriptLockHash,
    to,
    BI.from(amount),
  )

  txSkeleton = await commons.common.payFeeByFeeRate(
    txSkeleton,
    [issuer],
    1000,
  );
  
  txSkeleton = commons.common.prepareSigningEntries(txSkeleton);
  const message = txSkeleton.get("signingEntries").get(0)?.message;
  const Sig = hd.key.signRecoverable(message!, privateKey);
  const tx = helpers.sealTransaction(txSkeleton, [Sig]);

  return rpc.sendTransaction(tx, "passthrough");
}

export const getTokenAmount = async (address: Address, sudtArgs: string) => {
  const collector = indexer.collector({
    lock: helpers.parseAddress(address),
    type: {
      codeHash: config.predefined.AGGRON4.SCRIPTS['SUDT'].CODE_HASH,
      hashType: config.predefined.AGGRON4.SCRIPTS['SUDT'].HASH_TYPE,
      args: sudtArgs,
    }
  });

  let amount = BI.from(0);
  for await (const cell of collector.collect()) {
    amount = amount.add(number.Uint128LE.unpack(cell.data));
  }

  return amount;
}

Tutorial: Step-by-step create a wallet with Lumos

1. Create a new Lumos project​

2. Generate a wallet account​

3. Check CKB Balance​

4. Pick up some CKB from the test net faucet​

5. Create a transfer transaction​

Advance: Upgrade wallet for support Token (like ERC20)

Issue a new Token​

Transfer Token to Alice​

Check Alice's Token balance​