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How to access the `Alice` account on a Parity Substrate developer chain?

The Substrate Collectables Workshop suggests at some point that the developer chain comes with a prefunded account for Alice.

Let's go into the Transfer app, and make a transaction. The default account named "Alice" is pre-funded with a ton of Units.

However, connecting Polkadot-JS to my local --dev chain does not come with an account; also the Transfer app is not visible.

no accounts available

What's the mnemonic seed for the Alice account or how to recover that account? Is there any way?

Solution

  • As mentioned in this post, the seed for Alice is //Alice, however, it's important to select the raw seed option and not the mnemonic seed.

    the raw seed is //Alice.

    Note, make sure to select the Schnorrkel cryptography sr25519, not Edwards ed25519. The same works for //Bob