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Appendix - Testing on Ropsten (Ethereum Testnet)

Wallet

Certificate Store

Download

For testing purposes, you may download the Chrome Extension Metamask to manage your wallet to deploy new certificate store and issue a batch of certificates.

Set Up

  1. Create a new password for the wallet
  2. Backup the seed phrases
  3. Note down your wallet address

Certificate Store

  1. Change network to “Ropsten”

Certificate Store

Note: From now on, your wallet address is the address you see in step 3.

Test Ether

Certificate Store

Visit https://faucet.ropsten.be/ to get free Ropsten Ethers for your transactions on the test net. Enter your wallet address and click on “Send me test Ether” to receive free Ethers.

Note: Transactions on the Ethereum network is not instant, check your transaction status in a few minutes if you do not see it immediately.