Seid CLI

Seid is a command-line tool for interacting with the Sei blockchain. This page will guide you through setting up Seid and introduce you to some basic commands to get started.

Prerequisites

Go 1.19+: Installation instructions are available here .

Installation

To install Seid, locate the version you wish to use here , and then execute the following commands:


git clone https://github.com/sei-protocol/sei-chain
cd sei-chain
git checkout v4.1.4-evm-devnet
make install

You can verify that Seid was installed correctly by running:


seid version

If you encounter an error like command not found: seid, you may need to set your GOPATH environment variable.

Use go env GOPATH to find your GOPATH

Add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc:


export GOPATH=[your GOPATH from step 1]
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

For more information see here .

Commands

Seid supports all the commands you need to interact with the chain. To see a list of available commands and explanations of what they do, run seid:


Start sei app

Usage:
  seid [command]

Available Commands:
  add-genesis-account      Add a genesis account to genesis.json
  add-wasm-genesis-message Wasm genesis subcommands
  collect-gentxs           Collect genesis txs and output a genesis.json file
  compact                  Compact the application DB fully (only if it is a levelDB)
  config                   Create or query an application CLI configuration file
  debug                    Tool for helping with debugging your application
  export                   Export state to JSON
  gentx                    Generate a genesis tx carrying a self delegation
  help                     Help about any command
  init                     Initialize private validator, p2p, genesis, and application configuration files
  keys                     Manage your application's keys
  latest_version           Prints the latest version of the app DB
  migrate                  Migrate genesis to a specified target version
  prune                    Prune app history states by keeping the recent heights and deleting old heights
  query                    Querying subcommands
  rollback                 rollback cosmos-sdk and tendermint state by one height
  start                    Run the full node
  status                   Query remote node for status
  tendermint               Tendermint subcommands
  tools                    A set of useful tools for sei chain
  tx                       Transactions subcommands
  validate-genesis         validates the genesis file at the default location or at the location passed as an arg
  version                  Print the application binary version information

Flags:
  -h, --help                help for seid
      --home string         directory for config and data (default "/Users/bryantran/.sei")
      --log_format string   The logging format (json|plain)
      --log_level string    The logging level (trace|debug|info|warn|error|fatal|panic)
      --trace               print out full stack trace on errors

Use "seid [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Adding a wallet

You can create a new wallet using the seid keys command:


seid keys add $NAME

Please replace $NAME with the name you would like to use for this key. This will generate a seed phrase and store the account in the CLI for use. Write this mnemonic down and store it in a safe place.

Alternatively, if you would like to import an existing seed phrase, you can add the --recover flag:


seid keys add $NAME --recover

You will then be prompted to input your seed phrase.

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If you are importing from an EVM wallet like MetaMask, you may need to specify the coin type. Ethereum (EVM) based wallets use coin type 60, while the default on Sei is 118. For example,


seid keys add $NAME --coin-type=60

This will generate a different address than the default coin type of 118.

To see your local wallets, you can run


seid keys list

to see a list of all wallets added, or


seid keys show $NAME

to see a details about a specific wallet.