Guides
Step-by-step guides
From your first ten minutes to running your own node, building on the API and minting DigiDollars. Each guide is a free PDF to read, print or pass on.
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Your First Ten Minutes on ARCADE
Make an account, keep your twelve words safe, get your @name and first test coins, send a message, post, and receive and send coins.
Open the guide PDF · 10 pages · EveryoneKeeping Your Keys Safe
What your twelve words are, what the arcade keeps and never sees, backups, approving every payment, apps, phishing, swaps, and an operator's keys and passwords. With a checklist.
Open the guide PDF · 14 pages · OperatorsRunning a Node on a Small Computer
ARCADE Lite on a spare PC, step by step: checking and running the installer, claiming the node, chains, modules, reaching it from your phone, the mesh, updates and backups.
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ARCADE Guide
Running an arcade node from install to updates: the Full and Lite editions, chains you run or borrow, what works on which coin, wallets, ords, tokens and swaps, the mesh, the Lite window and Build, API keys, mining and the faucet, plus every console command.
Open the guide PDF · 7 pages · DigiByteDigiDollar on ARCADE
DigiByte's dollar from your own arcade wallet: getting test DGB, gathering coins (UTXOs), minting at each lock, your vaults and redeeming, paying a DigiDollar address or an @name, fees and limits.
Open the guide PDF · 10 pages · BuildersUsing the ARCADE API
Operator and user keys, narrowing them, the errors you'll see, whoami, routes and run, public reads, and three worked examples: a status widget, a feed bot and sign-in on your own site.
Open the guide PDF · 9 pages · OperatorsMining Test Coins and Stocking a Faucet
The Mining module, mining each test chain, the stratum server for your own miners, coin maturity, and how the faucet pays, tops up and restocks itself.
Open the guide PDF · 9 pages · OperatorsTroubleshooting for Operators
Symptom, cause and fix for chains, the mesh, wallets and balances, Admin and remote access, modules, the faucet and updates, plus where the logs and data live.
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