Stargaze Network: How to add Stargaze-testnet to Keplr, Cosmostation, Leap and get test $STARS coin

Bora Lee
3 min readNov 27, 2022

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What is Stargaze?
A layer one protocol for NFTs and decentralized social on Cosmos and beyond

You can follow these steps in Google Chrome, Brave browser, or any other browser which supports wallet extension(Keplr, Cosmostation, Leap, etc).

Keplr

1) Open Keplr wallet, right-click on it, and click on Inspect.

This will open DevTools window.

2) On the DevTools window, click on the Console tab.

3) Copy the following code.


window.keplr.experimentalSuggestChain({
rpc: 'https://rpc.elgafar-1.stargaze-apis.com/',
rest: 'https://rest.elgafar-1.stargaze-apis.com/',
chainId: 'elgafar-1',
chainName: 'Stargaze Testnet',
stakeCurrency: {
coinDenom: 'STARS',
coinMinimalDenom: 'ustars',
coinDecimals: 6,
coinGeckoId: 'stars',
coinImageUrl: 'https://stargaze.zone/logo.png',
},
bip44: {
coinType: 118,
},
bech32Config: {
bech32PrefixAccAddr: 'stars',
bech32PrefixAccPub: 'stars' + 'pub',
bech32PrefixValAddr: 'stars' + 'valoper',
bech32PrefixValPub: 'stars' + 'valoperpub',
bech32PrefixConsAddr: 'stars' + 'valcons',
bech32PrefixConsPub: 'stars' + 'valconspub',
},
currencies: [
{
coinDenom: 'STARS',
coinMinimalDenom: 'ustars',
coinDecimals: 6,
coinGeckoId: 'stars',
coinImageUrl: 'https://stargaze.zone/logo.png',
},
],
feeCurrencies: [
{
coinDenom: 'STARS',
coinMinimalDenom: 'ustars',
coinDecimals: 6,
coinGeckoId: 'stargaze',
coinImageUrl: 'https://stargaze.zone/logo.png',
},
],
coinType: 118,
gasPriceStep: {
low: 0.0,
average: 0.0,
high: 0.025,
},
features: ['stargate', 'ibc-transfer', 'no-legacy-stdTx'],
explorerUrlToTx: 'https://www.mintscan.io/stargaze/txs/{txHash}',
});

4) Paste the code in the Console tab.

5) Press Enter.

6) Click Approve button on Keplr Wallet window.

7) Close Keplr Wallet and re-open it.

8) Click on the networks present at top of Keplr Wallet, scroll down, and select Stargaze Testnet.

9) The wallet is ready and you can copy the address.

Cosmostation

  • To be updated…

Leap

  • To be updated…

How to get $STARS on Stargaze Testnet

1. Visit the faucet channel on the Stargaze discord

2. Type the request message with your stars address

  • example: $request stars1dxjcypw3xem77m7j3r5m9ck0luqjecnpcrw6xe

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Bora Lee
Bora Lee

Written by Bora Lee

Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP

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