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Getting Started

Installation of Telliot Feed Examples requires that Python 3.9 or greater is already installed on your system.

Install Telliot Feed Examples

Optional: Create and activate a virtual environment.
In this example, the virtual environment is located in a subfolder called tenv:

python3 -m venv tenv
source tenv/bin/activate

py -m venv tenv
tenv\Scripts\activate

python3 -m venv tenv
source tenv/bin/activate

You can install Telliot Feed Examples and all of it's dependencies (including telliot-core and chained-accounts) through the command line:

pip install telliot-feed-examples

Telliot Configuration

After installation, Telliot must be personalized to use your own private keys and endpoints.

First, create the default configuration files:

telliot config init

The default configuration files are created in a folder called telliot in the user home folder:

~/telliot
    ├── chains.json
    ├── endpoints.yaml
    └── main.yaml

To show the current configuration:

telliot config show

Configure endpoints

Edit ~/telliot/endpoints.yaml to configure Telliot to use your own endpoints.

If you don't have an endpoint, a free one is available at Infura.io. Simply replace INFURA_API_KEY with the one provided by Infura.

Endpoints should be configured for both Etherium mainnet and Rinkeby testnet.

Warning! All telliot software and reporter feeds should be validated on Rinkeby prior to deploying on mainnet.

Note that endpoints must use the websocket protocol because HTTPS endpoints do not support event listeners. If reporting on Polygon, websockets are not supported, so use an HTTPS endpoint

Example endpoints.yaml file: 

type: EndpointList
endpoints:
- type: RPCEndpoint
  chain_id: 1
  network: mainnet
  provider: Infura
  url: wss://mainnet.infura.io/ws/v3/{INFURA_API_KEY}
  explorer: https://etherscan.io
- type: RPCEndpoint
  chain_id: 4
  network: rinkeby
  provider: Infura
  url: wss://rinkeby.infura.io/ws/v3{INFURA_API_KEY}
  explorer: https://rinkeby.etherscan.io
- type: RPCEndpoint
  chain_id: 137
  network: mainnet
  provider: Matic
  url: https://polygon-mainnet.infura.io/v3/{INFURA_API_KEY}
  explorer: https://polygonscan.com/
- type: RPCEndpoint
  chain_id: 80001
  network: mumbai
  provider: Matic
  url: https://polygon-mumbai.infura.io/v3/{INFURA_API_KEY}
  explorer: https://mumbai.polygonscan.com/
...
Once you've specified your endpoints, what's left is to configure your account information (private keys, chain IDs, et.) using chained-accounts.

Add Reporting Accounts

The reporter needs to know which accounts are available for submitting values to the oracle. Use the command line to add necessary reporting accounts/private keys.

For example, to add an account called my-matic-acct for reporting on polygon mainnet (EVM chain_id=137):

>> chained add my-matic-acct 0x57fe7105302229455bcfd58a8b531b532d7a2bb3b50e1026afa455cd332bf706 137
Enter encryption password for my-matic-acct: 
Confirm password: 
Added new account my-matic-acct (address= 0xcd19cf65af3a3aea1f44a7cb0257fc7455f245f0) for use on chains (137,)

Note that reporting accounts can be used for ETH mainnet (chain_id=1), Rinkeby testnet (chain_id=4), or Polygon testnet (chain_id=80001). Also note that a single account/private key can be associated with multiple chains.

Detailed instructions for managing EVM accounts can be found in the chained_accounts package documentation.

After configuring accounts, read the Usage section, then you'll be set to report.

Other possible configs

AMPL

If you'd like to report legacy AMPL values, generate default AMPL configs from the repository's home directory: 

python3 src/telliot_feed_examples/config.py

After, add AMPL api keys (BraveNewCoin/Rapid & AnyBlock) to ~/telliot/ampl.yaml

Example ampl.yaml file: 

type: AMPLConfigOptions
anyblock_api_key: 'abc123fakeapikey'
rapid_api_key: 'abc123fakeapikey'