Dash Platform Terminal User Interface

The Dash Platform Terminal User Interface (TUI) is a Rust-based user interface for interacting with Dash Platform in the terminal. Its purpose is to enable users to perform all actions permitted by Dash Platform, which, broadly speaking, means broadcasting state transitions and querying the network.

The TUI can connect to any instance of a Dash Platform network, including the mainnet, testnet, devnets, and local networks. The main Install section of this readme covers connecting to mainnet and testnet, with a brief explanation of how to connect to a local network to follow. Check out the TUI documentation, and for further steps on running strategy tests, read Paul DeLucia's guide.

Install

Setup Dash Core

First, you need to run a Dash Core node in order to connect to mainnet or testnet. Download the latest version of Dash Core here. Run Dash Core and then configure the dash.conf file as follows, replacing *** with a username and password of your choosing (find the dash.conf file by right-clicking the Dash Core icon and selecting "Open Wallet Configuration File"):

server=1
listen=1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=***
rpcpassword=***

Put testnet=1 if you're connecting to the testnet.

Restart Dash Core for the changes to take effect.

Setup TUI

Clone repository

Clone the TUI repo:

git clone https://github.com/dashpay/platform-tui.git

Open the TUI repo in your terminal:

cd platform-tui

Install Rust if you don't already have it:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

After installing Rust, restart your terminal and navigate back to the platform-tui directory.

Add the WebAssembly target to Rust

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Install dependencies

Install build-essential tools, SSL development libraries, and Clang. On Ubuntu, use:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake libssl-dev pkg-config clang unzip

On other Unix-like systems, use the equivalent package management commands.

Install wasm-bindgen-cli

cargo install [email protected]

Install Protocol Buffers Compiler (protoc)

Download the appropriate protoc binary for your system, unzip, and install:

wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v26.1/protoc-26.1-linux-x86_64.zip
sudo unzip protoc-*-linux-x86_64.zip -d /usr/local

Setup env file

Now, create a file named .env in the highest level of the TUI directory, and copy the contents of .env.mainnet or .env.testnet into it. Set the username and password in the .env file to the username and password in your Dash Core dash.conf file and save. Optionally, you can also put the private key of your Dash wallet into the .env file as well (hex or WIF format), otherwise you can load it into the TUI later inside the interface.

Build and run

Do cargo run to start the TUI:

cargo run

Connect to local network

Connecting to a local network follows almost the same steps as connecting to mainnet or testnet, with the following differences:

• You don't need to run Dash Core. Instead, you need to run a local Platform network. The steps to do this are in the FAQ of the Platform Readme.
• To get the username and password for the .env file, run yarn dashmate config get core.rpc --config=local_seed in the local Platform directory after you get a network running. Use the password for dashmate and dashmate as the username.

DPNS Username Registration Tutorial

Now that we are inside the TUI, we will load a wallet, an identity, and register a DPNS username for the identity.

• Go to the Wallet screen and add a wallet by private key.
• If you don't already have a mainnet wallet, you can generate one on paper.dash.org. Save the address and private key (secret key) somewhere safe, then copy and paste the private key into the TUI. For all other networks, you can use this website to generate a new wallet private key if you don't already have one.
• Refresh the wallet balance.
• If your wallet is not yet funded, you'll need to send it some Dash before you can register an identity. After sending funds, you'll need to refresh the wallet balance again until the funds appear.
• Now go back to the Main screen and then to the Identities screen.
• Here, you can either load an existing identity if you have its ID and private keys, or register a new one.
• If you register a new one, fund it with 0.01 DASH. This should be more than enough to register a (uncontested) DPNS username. The private keys of the newly created identity will be logged to platform-tui/supporting_files/new_identity_private_keys.log. Be sure to save a copy of that file somewhere safe.
• After registering or loading an identity, refresh the identity balance until you see the funds appear.
• Now, you can register a DPNS username for the identity.
• After registering the username from the Identities screen, you can navigate back to the Main screen, then the DPNS screen. From there, query the names for the selected identity, and you should see the name you just registered, which is fetched from the Dash Platform state.