Interacting with Hyperledger Iroha using the CLI to create cryptocurrency

The Iroha CLI is interactive and flexible, which offers common and basic functions to manage network peers, domains, accounts, assets, and perform transactions and queries to work with the Iroha network.

In this recipe, we will utilize the Iroha CLI to perform the following transactions to demonstrate the ready-to-use asset and account management solution and functionalities offered by Iroha:

• Create a hotcoin asset
• Add hotcoin to the admin account
• Transfer hotcoin between accounts
• Query the hotcoin account balance

Getting ready

Perform the following steps before moving ahead:

1. Go to the bash Iroha container:

sudo docker exec -it iroha /bin/bash

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