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Genesis Address and Genesis Private and Public Keys

In order to initialize a new CX chain, secret and public keys need to be generated to create the genesis transaction. Generating these keys is achieved by running the following command:

cx --generate-address

The output of this command will be similar to the one below:

{
    "meta": {
        "coin": "skycoin",
        "cryptoType": "",
        "encrypted": "false",
        "filename": "2019_05_23_a737.wlt",
        "label": "cxcoin",
        "lastSeed": "64ceea88ba937fecab483ab6d2d9f51d4a02548cba71dbc494bab9550c0e6346",
        "secrets": "",
        "seed": "2a998dcce5470b87207a790db446219c046972b1f5bb618b0a5e851c972cc3e8",
        "tm": "1558675717",
        "type": "deterministic",
        "version": "0.2"
    },
    "entries": [
        {
            "address": "U84KDcpRbEK8ReHs7Z85MZd3KiFCCjUYPY",
            "public_key": "027ab554fef1fb125c5ec5317b830126cba5ba554f56ce08afb44eef8ead9cdfc1",
            "secret_key": "e2529cf862bd5a01c044966897e3ab4173e3df39cf2034f4c1c749e1ef0c3672"
        }
    ]
}

The bits of interest from this output are the values of the JSON keys address, public_key and secret_key.

These values are used for editing the file fiber.toml, with the exception of secret_key. At the moment, the modification of this file needs to be done manually, but this process should be performed automatically in later versions of CX. The value of the secret key must be kept secret, as the name implies, as this key could be used to sign transactions by anyone who posseses it.

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