To use the light client, you will need a wallet. You can either create a new wallet, or load an existing one. If an existing one is loaded, you will be prompted for the seed. Every wallet needs to have a name, this way they can be identified, and multiple wallets can be managed.

Create a new wallet:

# create a new wallet
./light-client init $walletname

# or load one from an existing seed
./light-client recover $walletname
# you will then be prompted to enter the seed

By default, the light client only generates a single address. You can generate more when loading the wallet by passing the --key-amount flag, followed by the amount of addresses to load.

At this time, only testnet is supported.

Using a wallet

Once a wallet is created, it can be accessed via ./light-client $walletname. If no subcommand is given, the balance of the generated addresses will be requested. Additional subcommands are also available.

Listing addresses managed by the wallet is done via the addresses subcommand, creating a transaction is done via the send command

# list addresses, one can then be copied and pasted in the faucet webpage to get some testing funds
./light-client $walletname addresses

# once some tokens have been received, you can check the balance
./light-client $walletname

# and a transaction can be created
./light-client $walletname send $amount $address

There are some additional options for sending money, such as sending to a multisig address, or time locking the output. For a detailed description of the arguments, and the available flags, you can pass the -h or --help flag to the command (as well as all other commands). This will print more detailed information about the options.