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Full support for Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC) and ERC20 Tokens

Full support for Bitcoin Cash Node (BCH) and Litecoin

Key/address generation for Zcash (ZEC)

Key/address generation and wallet creation/syncing for Monero (XMR)

Key/address generation support for 144 Bitcoin-derived altcoins

Full support for Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC) and ERC20 Tokens

Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and ERC20 tokens are fully supported by MMGen, on the same level as Bitcoin. In addition, ERC20 token creation and deployment are supported via the create-token.py script.

Install and run OpenEthereum

MMGen uses OpenEthereum to communicate with the Ethereum blockchain. For information on installing OpenEthereum on your system, visit the OpenEthereum wiki or Git repository. OpenEthereum is not used for transaction signing, so you needn’t install it on your offline machine.

OpenEthereum must be invoked with the --jsonrpc-apis=all option so that MMGen can communicate with it. If you’re running the daemon and MMGen on different machines you’ll also need the following:

--jsonrpc-hosts=all --jsonrpc-interface=<IP of OpenEthereum’s host>

To transact Ethereum Classic, use --chain=classic --jsonrpc-port=8555

To run the daemon offline, use --mode=offline, otherwise --mode=active.

MMGen can also be used with OpenEthereum’s light client mode, which queries other nodes on the Ethereum network for blockchain data. Add the --light option to the OpenEthereum command line and read the applicable note in the Transacting section below.

You may require other options as well. Consult openethereum --help for the full list.

Install Ethereum dependencies

Ensure that Python version 3.6 or above is installed on your system:

$ python3 --version

If the version is below 3.6.0, then you must upgrade the Python interpreter and Python dependencies listed in the Install wiki before proceeding. Ubuntu users can do this by adding the Bionic repository to 'sources.list' and reinstalling the relevant packages with '-t bionic'

Install the Ethereum-specific Python dependencies. The --no-deps option will prevent pip from installing a lot of unneeded stuff:

$ sudo -H pip3 install --no-deps py_ecc==1.6.0 mypy_extensions==0.4.1

Transacting and other basic operations

Basic operations with ETH, ETC and ERC20 tokens work as described in the Getting Started guide, with some differences. Please note the following:

  • Don’t forget to invoke all commands with --coin=eth or --coin=etc.
  • Use the --token option with the token symbol as parameter for all token operations. When importing addresses for a new token into your tracking wallet, use the --token-addr option with the token address instead.
  • Addresses and other hexadecimal values are given without the leading 0x.
  • Fees are expressed in Gas price, e.g. 12G for 12 Gwei or 1000M for 1000 Mwei. This works at both the command line and interactive prompt.
  • When using OpenEthereum in light client mode, the --cached-balances option will greatly speed up operations of the mmgen-txcreate, mmgen-txdo and mmgen-tool twview commands by reducing network queries to a minimum. If your account balances have changed, they may be refreshed interactively within the TRACKED ACCOUNTS menu. Cached balances are stored persistently in your tracking wallet.
Transacting example:

Note: All addresses and filenames in the examples to follow are bogus. You must replace them with real ones.

Generate some ETH addresses with your default wallet:

$ mmgen-addrgen --coin=eth 1-5

Create an EOS token tracking wallet and import the addresses into it:

$ mmgen-addrimport --coin=eth --token-addr=86fa049857e0209aa7d9e616f7eb3b3b78ecfdb0 ABCDABCD-ETH[1-5].addrs

Unlike the case with BTC and derivatives, ETH and ETC tracking wallets are created and managed by MMGen itself and located under the MMGen data directory. Token tracking wallets are located inside their underlying coin’s tracking-wallet.json file. Address (account) balances are retrieved directly from the blockchain. Tracking wallet views are separate for each token.

Now send 10+ EOS from an exchange or another wallet to address ABCDABCD:E:1. Then create a TX sending 10 EOS to third-party address aabbccdd..., with change to ABCDABCD:E:2:

$ mmgen-txcreate --coin=eth --token=eos aabbccddaabbccddaabbccddaabbccddaabbccdd,10 ABCDABCD:E:2

On your offline machine, sign the TX:

$ mmgen-txsign --coin=eth --token=eos ABC123-EOS[10,50000].rawtx

You can also set up and use autosigning on the offline machine.

On your online machine, send the TX:

$ mmgen-txsend --coin=eth --token=eos ABC123-EOS[10,50000].sigtx

View your EOS tracking wallet:

$ mmgen-tool --coin=eth --token=eos twview

To transact ETH instead of EOS, omit the --token and --token-addr arguments.

Creating and deploying ERC20 tokens

Install the Solidity compiler

To deploy Ethereum contracts with MMGen, you need between v0.5.1 and v0.5.3 of the the Solidity compiler (solc) installed on your system. The best way to ensure you have the correct version is to compile it from source. Alternatively, on Ubuntu 18.04 systems a binary distribution is also available. Instructions for installing it are provided below.

To compile solc from source:

Clone the repository and build:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/ethereum/solidity.git
$ cd solidity
$ git checkout v0.5.1 # or v0.5.3, if not Raspbian Stretch
$ ./scripts/install_deps.sh # Raspbian Stretch: add `DISTRO='Debian'` after line 55
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DUSE_CVC4=OFF -DUSE_Z3=OFF ..
$ make solc
$ sudo install -v --strip solc/solc /usr/local/bin
To install solc from binary distribution (Ubuntu 18.04):

First add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ethereum/ethereum/ubuntu bionic main

Now obtain the Ethereum PPA key 2A518C819BE37D2C2031944D1C52189C923F6CA9 from a PGP keyserver using your method of choice. Save the key to file, and then add it to your APT keyring as follows:

$ sudo apt-key add <key file>

Now you can proceed with the install:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install solc
$ solc --version # make sure the version is correct!
Create and deploy a token

Note: All addresses and filenames in the examples to follow are bogus. You must replace them with real ones.

Create a token 'MFT' with default parameters, owned by ddeeff... (ABCDABCD:E:1):

# Do this in the MMGen repository root:
$ scripts/create-token.py --coin=ETH --symbol=MFT --name='My First Token' ddEEFFDdEEFfddEeffDDEefFdDeeFFDDEeFFddEe

Deploy the token on the ETH blockchain:

$ mmgen-txdo --coin=eth --tx-gas=200000 --contract-data=SafeMath.bin
$ mmgen-txdo --coin=eth --tx-gas=250000 --contract-data=Owned.bin
$ mmgen-txdo --coin=eth --tx-gas=1100000 --contract-data=Token.bin
...
Token address: abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234

These Gas amounts seem to work for these three contracts, but feel free to experiment. Make sure you understand the difference between Gas amount and Gas price!

Create an MFT token tracking wallet and import your ETH addresses into it:

$ mmgen-addrimport --coin=eth --token-addr=abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234 ABCDABCD-ETH[1-5].addrs

View your MFT tracking wallet:

$ mmgen-tool --coin=eth --token=mft twview

Other token parameters can also be customized. Type scripts/create-token.py --help for details.

Full support for Bitcoin Cash Node (BCH) and Litecoin

Bitcoin Cash Node (BCH) and Litecoin are fully supported by MMGen, on the same level as Bitcoin.

To use MMGen with BCH or Litecoin, first make sure the Bitcoin Cash Node or Litecoin daemons are properly installed (source)(binaries), running and synced.

MMGen requires that the bitcoin-bchn daemon be listening on non-standard RPC port 8442. If your daemon version is >= 0.16.2, you must use the --usecashaddr=0 option.

Then just add the --coin=bch or --coin=ltc option to all your MMGen commands. It’s that simple!

Key/address generation for Zcash (ZEC)

MMGen’s enhanced support for Zcash includes generation of z-addresses.

Generate ten Zcash z-address key/address pairs from your default wallet:

$ mmgen-keygen --coin=zec --type=zcash_z 1-10

The addresses’ view keys are included in the output file as well.

NOTE: Since your key/address file will probably be used on an online computer, you should encrypt it with a good password when prompted to do so. The file can decrypted as required using the mmgen-tool decrypt command. If you choose a non-standard Scrypt hash preset, take care to remember it.

To generate Zcash t-addresses, just omit the --type argument:

$ mmgen-keygen --coin=zec 1-10

Key/address generation and wallet creation/syncing for Monero (XMR)

Generate ten Monero key/address pairs from your default wallet:

$ mmgen-keygen --coin=xmr 1-10

MMGen’s enhanced support for Monero includes automated Monero wallet creation and syncing tools.

Note that the use of these tools requires private data to be exposed on a network-connected machine in order to unlock the Monero wallets, which is a violation of MMGen’s security policy.

Install the following dependencies:

$ sudo -H pip3 install pysha3
$ sudo -H pip3 install ed25519ll # optional, but greatly speeds up address generation

In addition to spend and view keys, Monero key/address files also include a wallet password for each address (the password is the double SHA256 of the spend key, truncated to 16 bytes). This allows you to generate a wallet from each key in the key/address file by running the following command:

$ monero-wallet-cli --generate-from-spend-key MyMoneroWallet

and pasting in the key and password data when prompted. Monerod must be installed and running and monero-wallet-cli be located in your executable path. Launch monerod with the --bg-mining-enable switch.

To save your time and labor, the mmgen-tool utility includes a command that completely automates this process:

$ mmgen-tool keyaddrlist2monerowallets *XMR*.akeys.mmenc

This will generate a uniquely-named Monero wallet for each key/address pair in the key/address file and encrypt it with its respective password. No user interaction is required. By default, wallets are synced to the current block height, as they’re assumed to be empty, but this behavior can be overridden:

$ mmgen-tool keyaddrlist2monerowallets *XMR*.akeys.mmenc blockheight=123456

To keep your wallets in sync as the Monero blockchain grows, mmgen-tool includes another utility:

$ mmgen-tool syncmonerowallets *XMR*.akeys.mmenc

This command also requires no user interaction, a very handy feature when you have a large batch of wallets requiring long sync times.

Key/address generation support for 144 Bitcoin-derived altcoins

To generate key/address pairs for these coins, just specify the coin’s symbol with the --coin argument:

# For DASH:
$ mmgen-keygen --coin=dash 1-10
# For Emercoin:
$ mmgen-keygen --coin=emc 1-10

For compressed public keys, add the --type=compressed option:

$ mmgen-keygen --coin=dash --type=compressed 1-10

If it’s just the addresses you want, then use mmgen-addrgen instead:

$ mmgen-addrgen --coin=dash --type=compressed 1-10

Regarding encryption of key/address files, see the note for Zcash above.

Here’s a complete list of supported altcoins as of this writing:

2give,42,611,ac,acoin,alf,anc,apex,arco,arg,aur,bcf,blk,bmc,bqc,bsty,btcd,
btq,bucks,cann,cash,cat,cbx,ccn,cdn,chc,clam,con,cpc,crps,csh,dash,dcr,dfc,
dgb,dgc,doge,doged,dope,dvc,efl,emc,emd,enrg,esp,fai,fc2,fibre,fjc,flo,flt,
fst,ftc,gcr,good,grc,gun,ham,html5,hyp,icash,infx,inpay,ipc,jbs,judge,lana,
lat,ldoge,lmc,ltc,mars,mcar,mec,mint,mobi,mona,moon,mrs,mue,mxt,myr,myriad,
mzc,neos,neva,nka,nlg,nmc,nto,nvc,ok,omc,omni,onion,onx,part,pink,pivx,pkb,
pnd,pot,ppc,ptc,pxc,qrk,rain,rbt,rby,rdd,ric,sdc,sib,smly,song,spr,start,
sys,taj,tit,tpc,trc,ttc,tx,uno,via,vpn,vtc,wash,wdc,wisc,wkc,wsx,xcn,xgb,
xmg,xpm,xpoke,xred,xst,xvc,zet,zlq,zoom,zrc,bch,etc,eth,ltc,xmr,zec

Note that support for most of these coins is EXPERIMENTAL. Many of them have received only minimal testing, or no testing at all. At startup you’ll be informed of the level of your selected coin’s support reliability as deemed by the MMGen Project.