Make transactions

Overview

A cheqd-node instance can be controlled and configured using the cheqd Cosmos CLI.

This document contains the commands for reading and writing token transactions.

Querying and declaring fees in transactions

Our introduced EIP-1559 style burns, and our bumped minimum gas price to 5000ncheq. Therefore, all wallets and applications are recommended to query real-time gas prices from the chain to ensure that they succeed.

Querying real-time gas prices via CLI

Arguments

• denom: The denomination of the fee. For example, ncheq

• --node: IP address or URL of node to send the request to

Example

Note: Use --output json to get the output in JSON format.

Querying real-time gas prices via REST API

You can also query real-time gas prices on chain using the REST API, which can be useful for applications that do not use the node CLI. You can fetch this by initiating a GET reqeust to:

• Mainnet: https://api.cheqd.net/feemarket/v1/gas_price/ncheq

• Testnet: https://api.cheqd.network/feemarket/v1/gas_price/ncheq

Response format for gas prices from REST API

Interpreting the real-time gas prices API response

There are two ways of interpreting the CLI/API response:

1. If specifying fees as gas x gas prices with auto gas calculation (recommended): Multiply the price.amount by 10^4 to derive the gas price in ncheq. In the example above, this results in gas price 0.5ncheq * (10^4) = 5000ncheq

   Note: Consider 10^4 the fee offset multiplier for gas prices. This is because cheqd network uses ncheq

The section below explains further how fees can be specified with transactions.

Suggested static gas price values

The most fool-proof method of ensuring your transaction succeeds is by querying the on-chain gas prices as described above. This fetches the real-time gas prices on the network, based on current congestion.

If, however, your application is unable to query on-chain prices for some reason, you may be able to use the following static gas price values:

• Low (minimum gas price): 5000ncheq

• Medium: 7500ncheq

• High: 10000ncheq

Please note that without querying the real-time prices, these ranges might not satisfy requirements during periods of peak congestion, but will likely meet the required gas prices in 90% of scenarios at the peak.

Submitting transactions

In our documentation, you will come across terms like gas and gas prices. Fees are calculated as follows:

fees = gas x gas-adjustment x gas-prices

There are important changes to particular values for gas adjustment and gas prices since the and , which are reflected below.

Generic transaction command

Arguments

• --chain-id: E.g., cheqd-mainnet-1 (for mainnet), cheqd-testnet-6 (for testnet). This parameter is typically mandatory

• --gas: Either a specific value, or auto (recommended)

• --gas-adjustment

Alternative method for setting fees

Instead of using --gas, --gas-adjustment, and --gas-prices, you can also specify fixed fees for a transaction using the --fees flag, which is the maximum fee limit that is allowed for the transaction.

--fees needs to be specified in ncheq units or 10^-9 CHEQ. For example, 5000ncheq is 0.000005 CHEQ. The fee is in ncheq units. Refer to the section above for obtaining gas prices that help determine the fee amount.

Status codes

Pay attention at return status code. It should be 0 if a transaction is submitted successfully. Otherwise, an error message may be returned.

Example

General ledger queries

For most general ledger queries, use the --help flag for any command/sub-command to understand the possible parameters and values.

Command

Arguments

• --node: IP address or URL of node to send the request to

Example