Importing Accounts

AionR Kernel can import accounts from previous binaries, Aion(Java) Kernel, and private keys.

Import from previous AionR binary

If a new AionR Kernel binary is coming out,

• you can simply replace the old binary file with the new binary and launch it with the old config.toml file. Any data from the old binary, including chains(databases), keys(accounts) and caches, will be accessible for new binary.

OR

• you can setup a new work base folder by adding base_path in configuration:

[aion]
 base_path = "new/location/path"

and import old accounts using CLI:

# aion_new: new binary name
./aion_new --config="/config/toml/path" account import "old_base/keys/chain_name/*"

Import account from Aion(Java) Kernel

If you use Aion(Java) Kernel and want to import its keystore files into AionR Kernel, go to AionR Kernel directory and enter: ./aion account import <path/to/aion/keystore/files> And you can find imported keystore files in $BASE/keys/<chain_name>

Import from private keys

To import private keys into AionR Kernel, go to AionR Kernel directory and enter:

./aion account import-by-key <private key>

Loading config file from path/to/config.toml
please type password: 
please repeat password: 
A new account has been created: <new_aion_address>

View accounts in the current Kernel

Check if the accounts imported into the current keys, enter

./aion account list

The imported accounts should be showed in the list.

Operate with a specific network

If you want to do the account management for a specific network, you can:

• if the network is mainnet, mastery, or custom, use the commands above and replace ./aion with the quick run script ./mainnet.sh, ./mastery.sh, or ./custom.sh;
• Or if the network is not packed in the binary folder, run:

./aion --config=path/to/configuration/file --chain=path/to/chain/file <operation commands>