03_setting_up_env.md

Quick Start Env

1. Create Testnet Account

Create a testnet Hedera Portal account here.

2. Create .env

Create a file named .env in your project root.

Add, ignoring the < > and without any quotation marks:

OPERATOR_ID=<YOUR_OPERATOR_ID> #your account id
OPERATOR_KEY=<YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY> #your testnet private key (can be ECDSA, ED25519 or DER)
NETWORK=testnet

For example:

OPERATOR_ID=0.0.1000000
OPERATOR_KEY=123456789
NETWORK=testnet

We have added .env to .gitignore to help ensure its never committed.