Okay. I did it. I created my own
crypto currency. Yeah. You heard me, right? It's real. It's legit.
It's called network Chuck coin. And it was insanely fun to make,
like, I love this project. Ah, we just created a token and in this video, I'm gonna show you how to make your
own crypto currency too. I mean, haven't you always wanted your own crypto
currency. Yeah. Duh. Right. So yeah, that's what we're doing in this video.
And honestly, it's not that hard now. Yes, it is intimidating. But I'm
gonna walk you through every step. So get your coffee ready. We're about
to dive into some CLI limit GitHub. Goodness, it's gonna be fun.
Let's do this now. Real quick. Disclaimer, none of
this is financial vice. I'm showing you this because the tech
is really cool and it's worth learning, but by no means, am I telling
you this so you can make money. I am not telling you to buy network
Chuck coin as an investment because it's totally not an investment. Now,
if you do wanna buy it for fun, you totally can't. I'll show you
how to do that later in the video, but don't buy it to make money,
cuz you'll probably lose it. I did this just for fun, not to
make money. Oh, and by the way, I'm giving away or air dropping some
network. Chuck coin, if you want some, but you gotta be quick. Check the
links below. You got two options. If you are already or want to
become a member of network, Chuck premium I'm air dropping 1000
network, Chuck coins to all of my members. And if you join my
completely free membership, I'm air dropping 10 network Chuck
coins, but you gotta be quick. Only the first 1000 people to access the, this course and gimme their Solan wallet.
We'll get 10 free network Chuck coin. So hurry ya now real quick.
Before we do anything, we're gonna take a little coffee break
because this video does kind of get intense, not too bad, but it it's fun. And this coffee break in the
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before we jump into the, this madness, I wanna talk about why, like, why do this? You're probably wondering that yourself.
Why create your own crypto currency? Well, first then this probably should
be my only point. It's fun and awesome. You can brag to your friends and
coworkers that you have your own crypto currency. That's just cool.
They may not think you're cool, but I think you're cool. Okay.
You're among friends now, also along this journey,
you're gonna learn something. You're gonna learn some stuff.
That's another big reason to do this. Learn stuff, cuz I love learning stuff.
And then my third and final point, you can do cool stuff
with it. For example, I'm doing something pretty cool
with my daughters. Let me show you. I'll be right back. Okay. So I have this role of
tickets I use with my girls. I have five daughters by the way, whenever they do good things like cleaning
their chores or reading or studying coding and hacking, I'll reward them with tickets and they
can use these tickets to redeem fun stuff like an hour of Roblox or an hour of
TV. And that was totally working fine. But then I thought, no, it's not.
I wanna do something more nerdy, more technical. I wanna teach
them something at the same time. So cryptocurrency, that's what I'm doing. I'm using crypto instead of giving
them tickets instead of an allowance, you do your stuff. Yeah. Got
some stuff done. <laugh> okay. You want some cryptocurrency? Yes.
You want some KES? Yes. All right. Open up your app. So legit
when they do good stuff, I give them cryptocurrency when
they wanna watch TV or play Roblox. Cause they give me crypto currency. They
have their own wallets on their phone. It's awesome. How much
can they give to me? I'll give you five geeks cuz
you're are cool. Oh there they are. You got your cakes sent you five cakes
girl. So anyways, that's my example. That's what I'm doing with it.
You can do a lot more. I got. 14 Cakes and I can play Roblox tonight. <Laugh> but I hope this was a big
enough. Why for you? Why to do this? And if you're not convinced by now, well then get yourself another cup of
coffee and rewatch that part. Come on. Why do you wanna do this? Now? We're
about to get started. Don't worry. I'll tell you what you need and how
to do all that stuff. But first, first I gotta tell you about
some misconceptions about
what we're actually doing here. Now, if you don't care about that,
then jump forward. I got timestamps, go, go do it hurry. But if you do,
let's talk about it. Talk about what, let me tell you the first big thing
here is that we are not creating a cryptocurrency, which probably thinking,
wait, what? <laugh> I'll explain, but we are creating a
cryptocurrency token. What the junk is a token and how is it
different from cryptocurrency? Well, we're all familiar with
the main cryptocurrencies
out there, right? Bitcoin, Ethereum Solana. And
there are many others, but what makes them cryptocurrencies
is they each have their own blockchain technology, which is how
cryptocurrency works. If you wanna know more about that, I
just made a video showing us how to mine, cryptocurrency on a respiratory pie. And I went into how the mining works and
stuff. So go watch that. But anyways, they each have their own blockchain
tokens will piggyback off an existing blockchain. For example, the popular mean coin sheep is based
off of the Ethereum blockchain. Now the reason there's so much confusion
between cryptocurrencies and tokens is that they pretty much operate in the same
way because you can buy and sell sheep just like you can buy and
sell Ethereum. Now. Sure. If you pop the hood and go
deeper in how it operates. Yeah. It's different tokens will use
what's called smart contracts, which will define how you
send and receive that token. And also a ton of other things,
which I'm not gonna go into. That's a whole other video. But the takeaway here is that tokens
and cryptocurrencies operate in a very similar way, especially for
the purposes of our video, but we are not creating our own
crypto currency, our own blockchain. That would take a ton of development. We're just piggybacking off of an existing
blockchain and creating a token off of that. So we're creating
a crypto currency token, but which block pain are we going to use?
Now? The most popular one is Ethereum, mainly because they were the first one
to come out with contracts and tokens. Now that would be a good choice, but transactions on Ethereum
are slow and they're expensive. Like really expensive. You see, normally when you send somebody
cryptocurrency or you buy something with cryptocurrency, there's a fee for that
transaction currently with Ethereum, the fee, which they call gas. All
right, it's astronomical. It's crazy. Let me check the rates right now. Whoa. The average gas price for Ethereum
is $128. Now that price does vary, but if you wanna send things with
Ethereum and Ethereum tokens, it's gonna cost you some money, some gas. So we will not be using slow
and expensive. Ethereum, the blockchain we're gonna be using for
our tow is Solana who I love Solana. Solana's fairly new, came out in 2019,
but dude, it's fast. So for example, Ethereum transactions can take anywhere
between 15 seconds and five minutes. It's normally <laugh> five minutes.
That's been my experience Solana. Whoa. It's like milliseconds. All I know is
that when I send something with Solana, it just happens like that. It's amazing. And the best part is that the
fees are nothing seriously. When you send something with Solana,
the fees are less than a penny. Like seriously. Most of my
transactions cost me 0.00108 USD. So basically nothing which is ideal
because if I'm paying my daughter's crypto currency, I don't want the transaction
to cost 150 bucks every time. So, so salon transactions are fast and
they're cheap need, I say more. So it's a no brainer to go with Solana. Now of course there's a lot more
that goes into Solana. It's amazing. For example, how does it go so fast?
Why is it faster than Ethereum? Well, instead of proof of work, which is what Ethereum and Bitcoin and a
lot of cryptocurrencies use Solana uses proof of history. This mind
bending concept. It's crazy. <laugh> so I can't go over
that here in this video, but he uses proof of history. Um,
which depends on proof of steak. It's a lot of stuff that
will break your brain, but I'll probably make a video about it
here sometime soon, but anyways, okay. We're about to get started. So now we know that we're gonna be
using the salon blockchain to create our cryptocurrency token. So yeah,
now we're ready to get started. So get your coffee and let's do this,
but first, you know, what do you need? What do you need to
actually do this project? The first thing you'll
need is a Linux machine. I recommend something Debbie and based
like Ubuntu because that's all I've tested so far and this can be
really anything. A Docker container. It can be a virtual machine.
It can be a cloud machine, which I'll show you how to set up
one right now in Le node for free, you'll get a hundred dollars
free credit check the link below. So we'll get that Linux machine set
up. And the, this is pretty important. You'll need a way to buy salon
or more specifically soul, which is the crypto currency of
Solana. Now don't stress out. You won't need much. You just need about
$5 worth. Now, why do we need this? Well, as I mentioned before, when
you transact on a blockchain, there are fees involved. So when your,
with salon and you're making a token, they charge a fee. But
as we mentioned before, fees and salon are almost nothing. So that $5 should be more than enough for
you to min your new token and send all your tokens to all your friends
and your kids for a very long time. So in reality, it could be less than $5, but I just say $5 because
it's a good round number. Now I will walk you through how to
buy salon. I normally use Coinbase, but you can at other exchanges,
but anyways, you need
Solana. And then finally, and this is the most important part. You'll need coffee
because everything in it, including crypto currency requires
coffee network. Chuck, do coffee. Are you ready to create
your own cryptocurrency?
Yeah, dude, get you coffee. Let's do this. Okay. Step one. Let's
set up our Linux machine. Now again, this can be really any Linux Debbie and
based machine. If you already have one, go for it. If you don't, I'm gonna set
up mine through Len node right now, link below ode.com/network. Chuck you'll get a hundred dollars
credit to create one right now for free. Now I love Le node because you can create
your virtual machine super fast and that's really easy. So here at the very
top left, we'll just click on create. Once you have your account set up
and then click on Len node first, we'll choose our image. I'm gonna go
with the latest version of Ubuntu. So I'll scroll all the way down
here. There it is. Ubuntu 21, 10. Really any later version
of UTU should work. Then I'll select my region
somewhere close to me, Dallas. And then I'll scroll
down to select my plan. I'll go from dedicated to shared CPU
because it's cheaper and I'll choose the node. One gig just five bucks a
month. Can't beat that. Scroll down, put in my label for this
I'll name it crypto machine. And then I'll set the root password. This will be the password I'll use
to log in when it's ready to go. And that's it. I'll click on create Le node and
just a small little coffee break. Okay. Mine is ready. You'll know yours is ready when it says
running over here and now we're going to access the CLI. So we see SSH access and we're gonna
click on this copy icon right here. Copy that command and then launch
your terminal program for windows. It'll be CMD for Lenox or Mac terminal. And we'll just paste that command hit
enter. Yes, I'll accept that signature, that fingerprint, and then
type in your password. The one you just set in Lin nodes
portal and we are in Lenox. Goodness, here we go. Now first step will be
setting up a cryptocurrency
wallet to hold our salon here on this machine, which is
super cool. Anyway, here we go. So we're creating a wallet right now. Now feel free to copy and paste all
the commands I'm showing you here. I've got a link below to a guide where
I'll walk you through all of this. So anyways, our first command, we're gonna copy and paste
and paste it right here. This is salon's install tool,
which will install salon's tools. So that's all we need hit enter,
and it's gonna do its thing. And while it's doing its thing, I'm gonna do my thing and
have a little bit of coffee. I've already had way too much.
Okay? Solana tools are installed. Now what we're gonna do real
quick is exit out of our terminal. Just type in exit and
then get logged back in. We had to do that because we had to make
sure our path variables were updated in our shell. If you're like,
what the junk does that mean? We'll check out my Linux for hacker's
course, where I teach you all about Linux. Anyways, let's keep going. Now we're gonna create our crypto
currency wallet that will hold Solana. Let's do this. The command will
be Solana dash key gen space, new and hit enter. Here's gonna prompt you for a past
phrase to do once I'll just hit enter. And that was it. And yeah, we just
created a crypto currency wallet, just like that. Your key pair is
safe to this location in Linux. That's where your private key lives.
And then here is your public key. Your wallet address. If someone
were to send you some salon, that's where they send it to. And then what's really important
right here is your pneumonic phrase. If you ever need to recover your wallet, me and you lost access to
this Lennox box or something, you'll need this phrase to restore it. So write this down somewhere or just
copy and paste it it's best to write it down. But anyways, while it
created, that was awesome. Now we gotta fill that wallet up
with some money. So right now, if we type in do it with me
real quick, Solana balance, zero soul <laugh> we
ain't got nothing here. Let's change that by at least putting
in $5 so we can create our own token not to do that. You will need to go to a crypto currency
exchange and exchange some kind of currency for Solana, whether it's USD,
American dollars or Canadian or euros, find an exchange that can exchange
money for crypto and specifically Solan. I'll do that real quick. Actually, I'm
gonna get logged into my coin account. And here in Coinbase, I'm
just gonna click on buy, sell. I'm gonna change what I'm
buying from Bitcoin to Solana. I'll change that to $5 preview buy
that's how much soul I'm getting, because right now the price of soul is
$212 per soul. And I'll click on buy now. And because Solana is super
fast, it'll happen like that. I watch this seriously. Watch done.
I got it. Now. We're not done yet. Cuz right now my so salon, my soul is
sitting here in my Coinbase wallet. I want that to get to my new wallet. I just created in Lennox real easy
to do that. So real quick here. Now this will look different
depending on what exchange you have, but the fundamentals, the concept
is the same. I'm gonna click on, send C here at the top, right? I'm gonna
make sure my currency is not polka dot, but Solana. I'm gonna go back to my
terminal here and grab my, uh, public key, which is, is my wallet address. And I'll put that in the
two fields here in Coinbase. That's the wallet I'm sending to. I'm
gonna say send all click send all. Oh, all I have is $4. Well it's cuz
Coinbase had their fees. Anyways. $4 should be enough. Anyways, I click
on continue. Oh, minimum amount is 0.05. So, okay. So for Coinbase, their
minimum amount to send, so is uh, $12 worth of soul. Again, other
exchanges might be different. I've gotta do that. That's annoying.
I'm gonna go ahead and buy $12. Cause I believe soul is gonna go up
anyways again, not financial advice. Don't even listen to me.
I'm just a tech guy. Cool. So now I should have enough soul
and I'm gonna send, receive. Now send all my soul to my wallet
address, click on, continue, click on send now two sympathetic
code. It's gonna send me and boom. It should already be there actually.
So if I open up my terminal here, I'm gonna do salon balance.
Once more look at that. I got Solana in my wallet
right now, here in Lennox, which is way cooler than having it in
Coinbase. So I've got 0.06, blah blah, blah, soul. That should be more than
enough if you have less than that, like 0.05 or 0.043, whatever. That should
be enough. So now we have our wallet. We have some soul in
our wallet. Next steps. We've gotta do some steps to prep our
Linux box here now first real quick. And we should have done this to
begin with at the very beginning. Um, we'll do a pseudo, a PT update to
update our repositories should be very, very fast done. Cool. So we're going
to install something called rust. All you have to know about rust is that
it's a program and language that Solana uses to deploy tokens. So
we're gonna install that. It'll be one simple command again, all that stuff below gonna copy
and paste that and hit enter, and it's gonna do its thing.
Actually it's it's asking me stuff. I'll type in one for the
default installation. Cool. And as you might have guessed, we're
gonna have a little copy break. All right. Rust is stalled. Now just as before, we're gonna exit out of our terminal by
typing in exit and then logging back in. So our path environment is refreshed
in our new shell. Now here, I'm about to save you a ton of time. I hit this little snag
here and it took me a bit, but now you have the advantage
of my <laugh> mistakes. So here we're gonna install some
tools that will save you some time. First we're gonna do PSDO a PT
install, lib U dev dash dev, go ahead and hit enter.
And that will do its thing. We just have a few more commands for our
prereqs and then we can actually step forward and make our token. But just,
yeah, we're almost there. Don't worry. Let's wait for it to be done.
Okay. Mine is done. All right, one more command here or actually
no, it's not one more. I lied pseudo. We're gonna install some
more stuff. Pseudo a BT doll. This will be lib SSL dash dev
and then also PKG dash config a again, commands below. Gonna hit enter.
Enter once more. I forgot to put, uh, tick Y or dash Y it's. Okay. Okay.
Just a few more prereqs here. Pseudo a PT install, build dash essential. We'll do a dash Y at the end or a tick
Y hit enter. We're good with that. Now it's time to install
Solana's token program. This will be a CLI tool that we can
use to install a token on the so salon blockchain. So yeah, it's awesome.
Here we go. Command will be cargo, which is a rust thing. Install SPL dash token dash CLI.
Now this will take a minute. I'm gonna go ahead and hit, enter and
pray. It works. It, it should work. It shouldn't be that we've
already done all our work here. Now just take a break.
Okay. Quick sanity check. This does take forever. So if you're
just watching this, I'm like, okay, is he ever gonna finish? We're the same
boat. So just chill. It's almost there. Maybe we'll see. Okay. It's done. I was getting nervous when something
takes that long to finish. Oh my gosh. Well mine is ready as
yours. Ready? Let's do this. We're finally ready to create our
crypto currency token. What's crazy. Is this just one command now that we have
all that stuff installed? One command. You ready? Woo. <laugh> get a little
giddy or maybe that's just the coffee. I don't know. SPL dash token
space create dash token. That's it head enter? Ah, we just created a token.
That's it? That's it. Now a couple of things happened here.
First. There is our token address. The string of characters is
how you know, it's your token. Now what also happened is it used some
of your salon to create that token. So if you look back at your
balance, it would've changed. So if I type in salon balance
here, I forgot what it was before, but it definitely decreased. Now what you wanna do real quick is just
take that token ID, that token address, and just copy that down. You can get
it later, but just copy that down for, you know, now. So now that created
our token on the salon blockchain, we now need to create an account
that can hold this token. Now this step is very simple. In fact, pretty much most of our steps
from Huran are pretty simple. After we've installed all the
prereqs. Anyways, here we go. We're gonna create an
account for this token. The command will be SPL dash token
space will then type in create dash account. And then we specify at token,
we're creating this account for now. The token we're creating this account
for is our token, the one we just made. So I'm gonna grab that public key up
here or that token address paste it right there, right after that. And
again, this will require Solana, but a tiny little baby bit.
That's it go? And that's it. That's our token account right here, which I wanna go ahead and
copy and jot that down. Put it somewhere safe now quick let's
check our salon balance once more salon balance and we'll see that. Yeah,
it costs some salon, but again, less than a penny, Hey Chuck, from the
future here, one quick, no on salon fees, normal transaction fees
are less than a penny, but when creating a new token or creating
new accounts, it does cost extra. So for example, when you create
a new salon token account, that's gonna cost you about 50 cents.
But once the account is created, you do still have that low transaction
fee that less than a penny awesomeness. So here's where we're at. We
created our token. That's our token. That's his address using that token. We then created an account
that can hold that token. Now, all we have to do is fill
that account with tokens. And we do that by mentoring tokens, which mentoring basically
means we're printing money. We can just make as many tokens as your
heart desires, which is kind of cool. Let's try it out again. Commands are super easy and they will
be below the command will be SPL dash token min. We'll put that same token
address as before paste it in there. We'll put how much we're
going to min. So just for fun. Now you can do whatever you want.
I'm gonna put 1 billion <laugh>. So how many zeros as that 7 89, I'm
gonna make 1 billion of this token. And then right after that, I'm gonna
say, what account I want that to go to? So I'm mentoring the tokens. I'm
creating them outta thin air, and then I'm gonna send them to an
account that could hold the tokens, which is the account we
just made right here. I'm gonna snag that guy
paste him in right there. So just a quick recap of what's
happening here or minting this token. That's the token address we're saying we
want a billion of these tokens created at a thin air and we're gonna
send it to this account. Now mening does cost Solana again,
less than a penny. Here we go. Magic's happening. And that's
it. We just created some tokens. So now let's take a look at it. Let's
type in. So salon token accounts. Oh wait, no wrong one. SPL try this one. SPL dash token accounts.
Bam. Look at that right here. We have our token account and our current
token balance. That's pretty cool, but now what good is it
having all those tokens? If we can't send it to
people transact with things, let's go ahead and do that right
now. So what you can do is create a, so salon wallet somewhere else, which
is way easier than doing it here. Trust me, like you can do a web wallet,
a wallet on your phone. There's um, on apple there's uh, actually
two apps I've been using. There's a soul flare and then
there's, um, slope, wallet, really easy to set up
an account or a wallet, but real quick here in home
and a bunch of browsers, you can set up the Phantom
wallet and I'll put a link below, super easy to set up. I'm gonna set
up a new salon wallet right now. So here I'll click on a ad or
connect wallet, create new wallet. There's my new wallet, wallet five. And now I wanna send some of
my new token to this wallet. And for that we'll need our salon
wallet address. So right in here, I have my salon currency. I'm
gonna jump in there, got zero soul. I'm gonna click on deposit to display the
address. So there's my wallet address. I'm gonna copy that. And then I'll get back to my CLI to
transfer tokens to a new account. We'll use a command SPL token
and then the command transfer and then only use one
very important switch. We're gonna do dash fund recipient. And I always spell that wrong as a
that good. Yeah, I think it's good. I'll explain what that
means here in a bit. And then we'll put in our token address, which I'm gonna grab from up here
again, then how much we wanna send. I'll send them 1000. I'm feeling
generous. And then right after that, I'll specify the wallet address
I'm sending to. So I <laugh>, I need to copy it again. Let
me go grab it. There we go. I'll paste that in there. And let
me explain what's happening here. So obviously I'm using the CLI who
transfer some of my new tokens. Now the switch right
here. What is that doing? This is telling the salon CLI that I want
to fund the creation of an account for the wallet I'm sending to.
What does that mean? Well, the account we just created in the web
on the Phantom wallet and any salon account you might create, it will not by
default have an account for our token. Like we just created it.
Won't be there. One has to be. So what we're saying here is we want you
to send tokens our new tokens to this account at the same time, we'll go ahead and pay for that
new account to be created for them. So we're saying yes, send our token to
them. What token? This one right here. We want a thousand sent to them.
Here's their salon wallet address. And at the same time, create a new account
for them. Let's test it out. Ready? 1, 2, 3, make it hack.
Woo. Oh wait. Oh God. We forgot one command here. We need to add the switch
dash allow dash unfunded dash recipient, which simply means this wallet does
not have an account for our token. So we're saying allow it to be sent
even though they don't have one. And we're gonna go ahead and create one
for them. Let's try it again. Ready? Set. Things are happening. It's done.
Now. Did it, did it do anything? Let's go check. Let's open up our web
wallet. Now again, salon is super fast. There it is. Who 1000 of unknown token. Hmm. If I click on that, it's there.
<laugh> it happened with that one command. We created a new account for this
wallet and we sent them our new token. Now I know what you're thinking. This
whole unknown token thing. That's not fun. I wanna name that. I want to have a, a
nice picture here. Like salon down here. I want to have a picture and
a name. How do we do that? I'll walk you through it here in a sec, but for now just bask in the glory that
you created a cryptocurrency token and you sent it to another wallet.
You used the blockchain, you transact it on the
blockchain. You wanna see it? We can actually visualize this on a
website called SOCAN. Let's go there. socan.io here. You can see pretty much anything to do
with so salon and what's happening on the salon blockchain now to find out
what's going on with our token, cuz it is on the blockchain. Now
I'm gonna grab token address. I'm just gonna copy that. Gonna go to soul scan here and paste
that in there and search. There it is. There's our token. It already sees that we created a billion
tokens or meant it a billion tokens. And then down here we can see
every transaction that happened, especially the one we just did. Look what
happened here. We created an account. We can see that happening. That's so cool. And just thinking about that for a
moment. If you walk through this, you're now part of the, so salon
blockchain, you created a token. That's part of it. Now I am gonna touch on how to get
this unrecognized token thing fixed. But first I'm gonna show you one more
command in the CLI with this token, we may want to stop mentoring
forever. Maybe you want our supply, our max supply to be a
billion tokens. And that's it. We don't wanna create more at ever again. Cuz right now we could have meant more. I could meant another billion if I
wanted to actually, you know what? Why not token meant a billion
done. Now I have 2 billion tokens. Let me do SPL token accounts. Yeah. So I don't have the full supply there
because I sent a thousand to my other wallet. But I have to look back over here
in sold scan. Supply is now 2 billion. Now also in FYI before I forget
my, uh, Phantom wallet here, the wallet I created with
my thousand unknown tokens. If I wanna send more tokens, more
of my new token to this uh, account, I'm simply gonna send to that same salon
address this one here and it will auto deposit into that account. See that
account is tied to that wallet. Our token account is tied
to that salon wallet. So just keep that in mind ever wanna
send or transact or whatever that's gonna be a so salon wallet address. Now let's take care of this pesky
unrecognized token business. This process might be a little tricky,
but it's okay. I'll walk you through it. So if you're like me, you want to name your token to have it
something more friendly like right now I already have network Chuck coin. Now
that's, that's not where Chuck coin. Um, it has a different address.
I'll show you here in a bit. Actually I'll show you right now.
Network Chuck coin. There it is. You want it to look like
this right? To do that. We have to add our token to the salon
registry, which lives in GitHub. So we'll have to get into GitHub and do
some stuff. Trust me, it's not too bad. It's actually kind of fun.
But now what to name my token. I already have two out there. One for my
girls and my family. I have my network. Chuck coin, token. This one. I wanna
give this to Bernard hack. Well, so I'll simply name this coin Bernard
hack. Well, and for the symbol, I'll make it BD H K Bernard hack. Well, if it's not taken, you have to check that. I'll show you how now in addition to
figuring out what your name's gonna be and what your symbol's gonna be. You also
need a logo to go along with this, right? You want a logo to make it look so
I'm gonna make one right now in my experience, it can pretty much
be anything for the image. You want it to be a P and G and make
it square. So that's what I'll do. Bernard hack. Well, look at all. Fancy and I'll save that as a P and
G and specifically I'll name it. Logo dot PNG. Cool. I got my logo set.
Ready to go. Hey, real quick, Chuck, from the future here,
make sure your logo size. The size of that image is
less than 200 kilobytes. Otherwise it's gonna hate you. So save yourself a headache
and make sure it's small. Now the next thing we'll
need is a GitHub account. If you don't already have one,
get one. It's completely free. I'm gonna make Bernard hack one right
now. Get hub.com. Click on signup, uh, puzzles. I think I did it. Oh yeah.
<laugh> it is killing me. Okay. I'm color blind. So I
thought it was kind of hard. Gotta go verify that email address.
I'll paste that code in there. That's gonna ask me a bunch of
stuff. I'm a student. Just me, whatever GI Hub's free. Skip all the
personalization. Ooh, that's new. <laugh> it's cool. Okay. Now I have a
GitHub account. We're almost there next. I'm going to store my image
on a GI hub repository. So I'm gonna click on create
repository. I can't talk anymore. I've been recording too long. Create
repository, gonna name it crypto. That's all I'm gonna do. Click on
create. And then now to upload my file, I'll click on upload an existing
file. Choose my file. Grab that logo. I just created and click on commit
changes done. Okay, cool. Now real quick. What I want you to do click on
that file. <laugh> there it is. Click on download and right up
here at the top. We want that URL, a raw GitHub URL for this photo. Gonna snag that and jot it down.
Save it somewhere. Now, go back. And now we're gonna do something.
That's really cool. Kind of scary. I got the link below. We're gonna navigate
to salon's token list, GitHub page. This is where it has the
list of all the tokens. And if you want to add your token to this, you have to commit a
change to it kind of crazy. And it does this auto magically
with a bunch of DevOps stuff. So if this is your first ever taste
of DevOps, it's really cool. Anyways, here we go. First, we're gonna get
our own copy of this token list. We can do that by going over here and
clicking on fork, we're gonna fork it. People click on fork. It's
forking, it's forking and bam. Now we have our own version of token
list that belongs to Mr. Bernard hack. Well, and with our own version here,
we're not gonna make our changes to this. Let's do it now. There's something really cool about
GitHub being acquired by Microsoft. As you can use visual studio code right
here in your browser. So watch this. I'm just gonna click on the window.
I'm I'm not clicking on anything else. I'm just, I'm just have the
window selected right here. I'm gonna hit the period button gonna
hit, period. Magic's gonna happen. You ready? Boom. Suddenly it's setting
up a web editor. Oh, I love this. What the heck was that? <laugh> you
can include that by the way, Nick, I love this. I'm lose my voice. Couple
things we're gonna do here first. We're gonna make it bigger cause
I can hardly see I'm getting old. There are two things we're going
to change. Not very scary at all. Let's do it real quick. The first thing we're gonna change is
over here under assets on the navigation menu. So click on assets, come on,
click. And this is kinda cool. Right? Here are a bunch of folders that represent
every token that belongs to these salon blockchain. And there
are a lot so real quick, I keep saying real quick with this
folder, ah, with this selected, we're gonna click up here on this
little folder icon and say new folder actually, before we do that,
let's go grab our token address. So I'm grabbing mine. I'm gonna click on that new folder
icon and I'm gonna paste my token right there. Bam. So now my token
has a folder inside there. I'm gonna expand that folder gonna
right click that folder and say upload. And I'm gonna upload my logo
right there. Logo dot P and G. Bam is suddenly lives there,
right there. Okay, cool. We got one more file to update. So
I'm gonna collapse this menu here. The next one will be in
so source right here. So expand source and then we'll
expand tokens. And then right here, this JSON file Solana dot token list
dot JSON. It's a very large file. It's basically the registry, everything, every token that belongs
to so salon now right now, we're gonna add our new token to this.
Now I already have tokens in this list. If I do F to find I can look up
network Chuck coin, there's my network. Chuck coin right there. That's what
it looks like. I've got another one. Keith coin right there. There's
Keith coin. Another one I added. So I've added stuff to this
already now. Real quick. Go ahead and search for Keith
coin. Search for it. Pull it up. What I want you to do is copy all of this. We have the opening bracket here
and the closing bracket here. Make sure you copy all of that. This is very important that you
pay attention to the details here, cuz this is JSON. If you messed
up the JSON syntax in this file, they will not like you. They're
not gonna accept your changes. So with that copied, we're gonna scroll to the bottom of
this file and we're gonna find the last token that was added. Now
we can see right here, here's last token added some
token called NSA aula stars, ant hill don't know what that is.
We're gonna find where it ends. So here's the beginning of it.
And look, if you click that, it kind of highlights where
the beginning and end is. So here here's the end right
here. Now right here at the end, we're gonna do a comma right
after that bracket and then enter. And that's where we're gonna paste
the stuff we just copied paste. Cool. Now we're gonna change one thing
before we notice we have an error here. We have, uh, some angry squiggles
right here and it's like, no, you have a trailing comma. We
wanna remove that comma. Cool. No errors were good. Now we're gonna
change our details about our coin. Just a few fields. We're gonna
change first. Our address. You wanna put the address for your
token? I'm gonna grab that right now. Copy and paste. Got it in there. Then I'll change my symbol for Bernard
hack. Well, B was it D H K Bernard hack. Well, that's his symbol and then I'll
change the name to Bernard hack. Well, we're almost done. Then
we're gonna change our logo. I or the link to our GitHub page,
where we had the logo updated. We're gonna do that. You should
have copied that earlier. Gonna paste that there gonna
highlight paste and the tags. You can leave it as social token.
Cause that's what you're doing. It's just a fun token.
You wanna play with? You wanna add this to the salon
token registry fun times. Guess what? We're done editing no more editing. Now we've gotta commit our changes
to our own repository here, our own project to do that
over here on the left, we have a two with some
squigglies. That's our changes. We're gonna commit the changes by
clicking on click that icon here. We're gonna do two things first. We're gonna add a message
about what we're doing. I'm just gonna put this
adding Bernard hack. Well token you can put
yours just like that. Obviously putting your token name and
then I'm gonna click on the check mark up here at the top to commit this change
to my project. Commit done. That's it. So we're done here. Now. We're gonna navigate back out to
salon labs and to their project, to their token list. Remember we made
a copy of that. We forked it and we, we made some changes
to our forked project. And now we're gonna do is we're gonna
merge our changes to their project and they do have to accept
it. So fingers cross, but let's let's work on it right
now. So here on salon labs project, we're gonna click on pool request.
Go ahead and click on that. You can see down here a, uh, list of people trying to make their own
changes like we are doing right now. Notice they had an error.
We want to avoid that error. And if you follow me
exactly, you'll be fine. We're gonna click on new pool request.
This is kind of cool. Right? Here we go. We're almost done. We're thinking to click on this link
right here in the middle compare across forks. I know you probably have no
idea what you're doing. That's fine. It's just cool. Compare across
forks. And then right here, we have this head repository.
We're gonna change that to ours. So click on that and you see right
there, Bernard hack, well token list. It'll be wherever yours is. Now, what you
wanna see is boom. It's able to merge. That means we're good to go. We're
gonna create that pull request, click on that. We're almost there. Notice
it went ahead and pulled in the, uh, the comment we made earlier,
adding Bernard Hackel
token. So I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna scroll down where it
says, create, pull, request. I'm gonna click on create, pull
request. And now we wait now real quick, go ahead and click on. Pull,
request up here at the top again, you'll see yours in the list.
Adding Bernard Hackel token. Now it's cool as it's
already checked everything, but right now it's kind of limbo. It's still waiting to be
added to the official code. So right now it's an open pull
request. What we wanna see is a closed. If I click on closed right here,
once it's all said and done, we'll see something like
this. It's closed. Check mark. And it's been auto merged. I believe they do this every
30 to 60 minutes automatically. So right now it's just a waiting
game. Now notice right here, I got an auto merge error. Let's go see
what happens. I wanna jump into this, scroll down a bit and
analyze what the problem was. It says not eligible for auto merge.
Let's click for more details. Ah, there's my problem. The
asset was too large. The logo I uploaded was 722 kilobytes and
it's gotta be less than 200 kilobytes. Okay, I'm gonna go fix that real
quick and then do a remerge. Okay. I did another pull request
for Bernard hack. Well, um, I believe I just missed the last window, so I'm gonna have to wait a bit for it
to auto merge. I'll give that a second. I've checked this out. My Bernard Hackel
coin finally got merged on GitHub. If I go to the closed pull request
here and I scrolled down just a bit, there he is. Bernard Hackel
auto merged. Good to go. So now if I go back out to soul scan and
where before Bernard Hackel had nothing going on, I searched for his stuff. The
bam there, it all is. He's got his logo, got his name, got his symbol
and everything. That's awesome. So adding your token to the registry
really isn't too crazy hard and a bunch of apps rely on that to pull the
name, the symbol and the logo, which is cool. It's just really cool. Now just a quick note about your new
cryptocurrency token. As of right now, the only way for people to receive
your token for someone else to have it besides you is for you to send it to them. So the supply of 2 billion I created
for <laugh> for Bernard Rockwell token, I have to send it and that's the
only way someone can receive it, which means people can't buy
it for someone to buy this. This token has to be part of an
exchange, which is a whole process. It's very convoluted and
it does cost some money, which I did go through that process
for network Chuck coin, just for fun. So if you wanna buy that, you can, and
we'll go over that here in a second. Again, not financial advice. You
should not buy that for an investment, but for fun. Yeah. Do it for fun. It
costs nothing. <laugh> but anyways, yeah. So as far as this token goes,
send it to your friends, have fun. Just say you have crypto currency and
you can send it to people. However, setting it up on an exchange and creating
a market and liquidity pools and all that jazz. You don't need to
do that. <laugh> trust me. So now let's talk about, could
actually buy network, Chuck coin, keeping in mind, this is just for fun.
It is not an investment opportunity, but I think it'd be kind of cool to
own some right and beyond cool points. I do plan on developing some kind
of utility for having to do with my educational website. So stay tuned for
that anyways. Here's how you buy it. And it's actually really
crazy easy. Here we go. Now first you will need a cryptocurrency
wallet and one that I can hold salon. Now, if you followed a lot
of these steps in this video, you would've already had one. If
you don't I'll show you real quick, I'm gonna go ahead and open
up my brave web browser. You can use Chrome or Firefox or any
of the popular web browsers out there. And I'm gonna search
for the Phantom wallet. This is a very popular web three
wallet for salon. So anyways, let's get that going. I'm click
on download and here you can see, we can add it to a bunch
of stuff. I'm use brave, cuz that's what I'm using right now. I
will add to brave and this is stupid, easy. And just like that, I have
a wallet in brave from here. We're gonna click on create a new wallet. And in case you don't know right here is
your monic phrase. You wanna take this, copy it, write it down, put it somewhere safe in case you ever
lose this wallet or lose access to it, you can restore it with this phrase. Once
you have that saved, go ahead and say, yeah, I did it somewhere by clicking that little
button right there and then create a password for your wallet.
This can be whatever you want. And then we'll click on. I agree and save. And then once more to continue and
you're done now to access your wallet. And this does go for most browsers. You
can go right up here to the top, right? To your extensions, click on that
little puzzle thing right there. And there he is. I'm gonna go ahead
and pin this so I can access it easily. Just click that little ghost
right there of Phantom. And there's my wallet right there.
Now to buy some network, Chuck coin, you will need Solana and more
specifically you're gonna need so the cryptocurrency of Solana. And if you're wondering how
much do I need man network, Chuck coin is pretty stink and cheap
right now as of the time of this recording and this may change. But right now you can min or purchase
network Chuck coin for a w Bing 10 cents. Us D so if you wanna grab one
just for fun, 10 cents, it's a dime. But anyways, first we
need some Solana. Now, if you didn't already buy some Solana
through the course of this tutorial, you could buy some right now
I'll show you real quick. Solana can be purchased
on a number of exchanges. My favorite one to use just for
ease of use is, uh, Coinbase. So I'm logged into the Coinbase. I'm
gonna click on buy, sell the top, right? Again, different exchanges will have
different looks and feels obviously, but how to use it is pretty much the
same. So here I don't wanna buy a Bitcoin. I wanna buy salon. So I'll change that. And then I'll enter in how much
I wanna buy in U S D right here. Now a wild network. Chuck coin will
only cost you 10 cents per coin. Coin based will not allow you to send
or transact Solana less than $12 worth. So I'm just gonna buy a $15 worth
of salon. I'll click on preview, buy and purchase my salon by now. Now
what I wanna do is transfer that salon. I just bought that soul from my exchange
to that Phantom wallet that we just created. So I'm gonna go back to my brave web
browser and here on my Phantom wallet, I'm gonna click on, on deposit and
I'll search for Solana. There it is. I click on that and right here is the
so salon wallet address for our Phantom wallet here. I'll click on copy
to copy the address. Okay, copy, go back to my exchange, which is
Coinbase and click on send, receive. I'm gonna send all the,
so I have right now, which is $13 and 44 cents worth cuz
Coinbase took a chunk outta that transaction. And then in that
two, that wallet address, I just created also making sure I
have Solana selected. I'll click on, continue send now and then put
in my two step verification code, which you should have if you don't
have that, get it and confirm. And because Solana is so wicked fast,
if I go back to my Phantom wallet, it should already be there. There
it is. That wasn't even edited, man. That was your bam real quick. So now
that you have Solana buying network, Chuck coin is really,
really easy. Check this out. The website is mint.network. chuck.com. The first thing I wanna do is connect
your wallet to this application by clicking on connect wallet.
So I'll go and click on that. I'm gonna choose the Phantom
wallet I just created. And then you'll get a
dialogue box asking, Hey, do you actually wanna connect with
this? Do you trust this person? Now I trust me and I hope you trust
me. I'm not gonna steal your money. So anyways, click on connect and your
wallet is ready to purchase some network. Check coin. Now again, it's
displaying the price right here. One network check coin
will cost you 0.001 soul, which equates to roughly about
10 cents USD. So say for example, now I wanna buy 50 network shut coin
and actually Solana just went up. So it's about 18 cents per
network. Shut coin now, which is kind of cool cuz it was 10
cents. When I initially set the price. So anyways, 50 network shut
coins will cost me 0.05. So now all I have to do is click
on min and I'll get my network. Chuck coins clicking on min. Now, boom, it's gonna ask me to
approve that transaction. It's telling me what's going
down, which this is not accurate. You're not gonna be getting 50
<laugh> billion network check coins, but I will be getting 50. So I'll
click on, approve down the bottom left. I can see that's confirming
actually it's already done. And if I look at my wallet, there it
is. Look at that. How cool is that? 50 network? Chuck coins. So
anyways, that's how you do it again. Not an investment, but just
fun to do. And going forward, I do have some fun ideas for my network,
Chuck coin holders. So if you do buy, don't forget to hold and look for
more stuff in the future. So yeah, that was creating your own
cryptocurrency and more specifically your cryptocurrency token because it is
different. Right? But how cool is this? I mean, yeah, it took a bit of work,
but that didn't feel like work, right? That was more fun. <laugh> and um, please let me know if you did
that in the comments below. I wanna know your token. I want some
of your tokens send me your token. I'll put my wallet address below. I
want all your tokens. I, you know, I would stink and love that if you guys
all created your own tokens and then sent me the tokens, oh, please
do that. I would love that. So I'll put my salon wallet
address below. Send me your tokens. If you do go through this process. Oh, that would warm my heart and don't forget
to get it listed on the salon registry so people can know what your name
is, what your token name is. Oh, oh, good to stuff. So cool. Well guys,
that's all I have today. Um, yeah, I've been going down the Crip currency,
rabbit hole, but having fun with it. And I thought, you know, I want my own
and it's actually pretty easy to do. Yes. You can create your own
token on other blockchains. I thought Solana was the coolest
one because it's fast has low fees. And I think Lana has a bright
future. Again, don't let me say it. It's not financial advice,
but I think it is pretty cool. The technology behind it is what I'm
excited about anyways guys. Whew. Yeah, I've had too much coffee.
It's already too late. And uh, do not forget to hack that YouTube
algorithm hit that like button subscribe, notification bell and, and comment.
Cuz you gotta hack YouTube today. Ethically of course. Yeah. That's
all I got to the moon. No don't no, no to the moon. Nothing's going to
the moon. It's just for fun. For real. I'll get you guys next time. <laugh>
