web3-gear 1.0.1

An adapter between thor-restful and eth-rpc.

Give thor a RPC-API like Ehereum, now it’s mainly to be able to use Remix on Thor.

Working with builtin-contracts will make Web3-Gear more usable.

Installation on OS X

First install the system-dependecies for a successful build of secp256k1-py:

brew install automake libtool pkg-config libffi gmp openssl

Installation of Web3-Gear and it’s dependent Python packages via PyPI:

pip3 install web3-gear

Run

Installing through pip will make the web3-gear command available on your machine:

web3-gear

This will run web3-gear on 127.0.0.1:8545.

You can change its default behavior with the following parameters:

• --host : rpc service host, eg: --host 127.0.0.1

• --port : rpc service port, eg: --port 8545

• --endpoint : thor restful service endpoint, eg: --endpoint http://127.0.0.1:8669

• --keystore : keystore file path, eg: --keystore /Users/(username)/keystore), default=thor stand-alone(solo) built-in accounts

• --passcode : passcode of keystore, eg: --passcode xxxxxxxx