Accounts

The following functions and commands are subject to further testing and potential changed.

BlockX Accounts

BlockX defines its own custom Account type that uses Ethereum's ECDSA secp256k1 curve for keys. This satisfies the EIP84 for full BIP44 paths. The root HD path for BlockXs-based accounts is m/44'/60'/0'/0.

// EthAccount implements the authtypes.AccountI interface and embeds an
// authtypes.BaseAccount type. It is compatible with the auth AccountKeeper.
type EthAccount struct {
	*types.BaseAccount `protobuf:"bytes,1,opt,name=base_account,json=baseAccount,proto3,embedded=base_account" json:"base_account,omitempty" yaml:"base_account"`
	CodeHash           string `protobuf:"bytes,2,opt,name=code_hash,json=codeHash,proto3" json:"code_hash,omitempty" yaml:"code_hash"`
}

Addresses and Public Keys

BIP-0173 defines a new format for segregated witness output addresses that contains a human-readable part that identifies the Bech32 usage. BlockX uses the following HRP (human readable prefix) as the base HRP:

There are 3 main types of HRP for the Addresses/PubKeys available by default on BlockX:

  • Addresses and Keys for accounts, which identify users (e.g. the sender of a message). They are derived using the eth_secp256k1 curve.

  • Addresses and Keys for validator operators, which identify the operators of validators. They are derived using the eth_secp256k1 curve.

  • Addresses and Keys for consensus nodes, which identify the validator nodes participating in consensus. They are derived using the ed25519 curve.

Data items are coming soon

Address formats for clients

EthAccount can be represented in both Bech32 and hex (0x...) formats for Ethereum's Web3 tooling compatibility.

The Bech32 format is the default format for Cosmos-SDK queries and transactions through CLI and REST clients. The hex format on the other hand, is the Ethereum common.Address representation of a Cosmos sdk.AccAddress.

  • Address (Bech32): []

  • Address (EIP55 Hex): []

  • Compressed Public Key: []

Address conversion

The [] can be used to convert an address between hex and bech32 formats. For example:

:::: tabs ::: tab Bech32

blockxd debug addr blockx1z3t55m0l9h0eupuz3dp5t5cypyv674jj7mz2jw
  Address: [20 87 74 109 255 45 223 158 7 130 139 67 69 211 4 9 25 175 86 82]
  Address (hex): 14574A6DFF2DDF9E07828B4345D3040919AF5652
  Bech32 Acc: blockx1z3t55m0l9h0eupuz3dp5t5cypyv674jj7mz2jw
  Bech32 Val: blockxvaloper1z3t55m0l9h0eupuz3dp5t5cypyv674jjn4d6nn

::: ::: tab Hex

blockxd debug addr 14574A6DFF2DDF9E07828B4345D3040919AF5652
  Address: [20 87 74 109 255 45 223 158 7 130 139 67 69 211 4 9 25 175 86 82]
  Address (hex): 14574A6DFF2DDF9E07828B4345D3040919AF5652
  Bech32 Acc: blockx1z3t55m0l9h0eupuz3dp5t5cypyv674jj7mz2jw
  Bech32 Val: blockxvaloper1z3t55m0l9h0eupuz3dp5t5cypyv674jjn4d6nn

::: ::::

Key output

The Cosmos SDK Keyring output (i.e blockxdkeys) only supports addresses and public keys in Bech32 format.

We can use the keys show command of blockxd with the flag --bech <type> (acc|val|cons) to obtain the addresses and keys as mentioned above,

:::: tabs ::: tab Account

blockxd keys show mykey --bech acc
- name: mykey
  type: local
  address: blockx1z3t55m0l9h0eupuz3dp5t5cypyv674jj7mz2jw
  pubkey: '{"@type":"/ethermint.crypto.v1.ethsecp256k1.PubKey","key":"AsV5oddeB+hkByIJo/4lZiVUgXTzNfBPKC73cZ4K1YD2"}'
  mnemonic: ""

::: ::: tab Validator

blockxd keys show mykey --bech val
- name: mykey
  type: local
  address: blockxvaloper1z3t55m0l9h0eupuz3dp5t5cypyv674jjn4d6nn
  pubkey: '{"@type":"/ethermint.crypto.v1.ethsecp256k1.PubKey","key":"AsV5oddeB+hkByIJo/4lZiVUgXTzNfBPKC73cZ4K1YD2"}'
  mnemonic: ""

::: ::: tab Consensus

blockxd keys show mykey --bech cons
- name: mykey
  type: local
  address: blockxvalcons1rllqa5d97n6zyjhy6cnscc7zu30zjn3f7wyj2n
  pubkey: '{"@type":"/ethermint.crypto.v1.ethsecp256k1.PubKey","key":"A/fVLgIqiLykFQxum96JkSOoTemrXD0tFaFQ1B0cpB2c"}'
  mnemonic: ""

::: ::::

Querying an Account

You can query an account address using the CLI, gRPC or

Command Line Interface

# NOTE: the --output (-o) flag will define the output format in JSON or YAML (text)
blockxd q auth account $(blockxd keys show mykey -a) -o text
|
  '@type': /ethermint.types.v1.EthAccount
  base_account:
    account_number: "0"
    address: blockx1z3t55m0l9h0eupuz3dp5t5cypyv674jj7mz2jw
    pub_key:
      '@type': /ethermint.crypto.v1.ethsecp256k1.PubKey
      key: AsV5oddeB+hkByIJo/4lZiVUgXTzNfBPKC73cZ4K1YD2
    sequence: "1"
  code_hash: 0xc5d2460186f7233c927e7db2dcc703c0e500b653ca82273b7bfad8045d85a470

Cosmos gRPC and REST

# GET /cosmos/auth/v1beta1/accounts/{address}
curl -X GET "http://localhost:10337/cosmos/auth/v1beta1/accounts/blockx14au322k9munkmx5wrchz9q30juf5wjgz2cfqku" -H "accept: application/json"

JSON-RPC

To retrieve the Ethereum hex address using Web3, use the JSON-RPC eth_accounts or personal_listAccounts endpoints:

# query against a local node
curl -X POST --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_accounts","params":[],"id":1}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8545

curl -X POST --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"personal_listAccounts","params":[],"id":1}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8545
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