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Interacting with the network

In order to interact with the chain you need to have the Metamask wallet along with the polkadot.js extension installed. You can find the front-end application to Guild Network here.

In the heart of Guild Network are guilds that can be created by anyone. Guilds are initially empty but they can be filled up with various roles. Roles are what make guilds fill up with life and they usually come with a unique set of requirements specified by the guild owner. Users who wish to attain a role in a guild need to meet the respective requirements. Checking these requirements is mostly the task of oracle operators who query external data sources to verify whether a user has enough tokens on Etherum to join a guild and get a role assigned.

Users first need to register identities (for example an Ethereum address) on Guild Network that will be tied to their Substrate-address, i.e. the native identity on Guild Network. Currently, users can register any address/public key from a secp256k1, ed25519 and/or sr25519 elliptic curve signature scheme. This is done via submitting a signature on-chain that is verified against the registered address/public key. Users may also register Discord and Telegram identities, but those are not verified yet (as they cannot really be verified on-chain, we'll need oracles for that).

NOTE all data on Guild Network is public, so only register identities that you are comfortable with being aggregated and tied to your Substrate-address.

The registered (web3) identities will be used to check requirements and get roles assigned to users. Other identities (e.g. Discord, Telegram) can be used by third-party services (e.g. Discord and Telegram bots) that build on the publicly available data aggregated on Guild Network so you can access gated content for example.

Substrate Front-end Template

The quickest and easiest way to interact with a network is via Parity's generic front-end template for Substrate-based chains. You can submit extrinsics (transactions) and monitor events via this tool from the browser.

Make sure you have yarn installed. Then you should clone and install the front-end template by running

git clone https://github.com/substrate-developer-hub/substrate-front-end-template
cd substrate-front-end-template
yarn install

To connect to your node, you should modify the contents of src/config/development.json such that the provider socket is set to

{
  "PROVIDER_SOCKET": "ws://127.0.0.1:<port>"
}

where the port number is the number shown in the terminal output after you started your node.

By running

yarn start

the app will open in your browser and you might see some pre-funded accounts from which you can choose and interact with the blockchain via a the Pallet Interactor.

Polkadot.js

The polkadot.js app lets you monitor a node which is incredibly useful if you are running a validator. It will instantly try to connect to a node whose endpoint you need to specify in the drop-down menu opening from the upper-left corner.

This is the main interface for submitting sudo transactions like registering new validators and oracle operators and updating the runtime of the network. Once Guild Network leaves the testnet phase, the sudo account will be replaced by decentralized governance.