Verifiable Random Beacon
Overview and prerequisites
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Overview and prerequisites
Last updated
Cryptosat periodically generates a 32-byte random beacon and stores it on a smart contract on the blockchain. This tutorial guides through the steps to retrieve and verify randomness generated by Cryptosat.
You'll need the following tools to complete the steps in this tutorial:
or any Solidity development environment
wallet and Velas testnet VLX
To deploy a smart contract on any blockchain, you need a wallet and corresponding token to pay for the fee.
browser extension.
Open MetaMask and follow the instruction to setup a new account. Copy your secret recovery phrase into a secure location. You need this to access your walllet later.
Configure MetaMask for Velas Network following .
Airdrop some tokens to your wallet
Replace <RECIPIENT_ACCOUNT_ADDRESS>
with your base58 encoded public key address.
<VELAS_EVM_ADDRES>
will be the public address of your MetaMask wallet.
Transfer Velas Native coin to Velas EVM with