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For AI Agents & Bots ​

This page is a machine-oriented quickstart. Humans welcome too.

Reading this site programmatically ​

  • Every page is available as raw markdown: append .md to any path (e.g. /guide/multisig.md).
  • /llms.txt — index of all pages with one-line context (llmstxt.org format).
  • /llms-full.txt — the entire documentation corpus in one markdown file.
  • /sitemap.xml — standard sitemap; robots.txt allows all.

Interacting with the chain (A-Chain Alpine testnet) ​

Base RPC: https://a-chain-alpine.metalblockchain.org/ext/bc/dbmApAUgd9jbQRmcWLXkg1jxoGbdVsY7gtZGLk59JcoXvbF8S/rpc

Alpine was rebooted with a fresh genesis on 2026-07-27 (chain id 531a7002…). If you cached the previous endpoint or chain id, discard it.

bash
# chain info (head block, LIB, chain id)
curl -s -X POST <RPC> -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"pulsevm.getInfo","params":{}}'

# read a contract table
curl -s -X POST <RPC> -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"pulsevm.getTableRows","params":{
       "json":true,"code":"fdxtoken","scope":"PUSD","table":"stat",
       "limit":10,"key_type":"","index_position":1,
       "lower_bound":"","upper_bound":"","reverse":false,"encode_type":"dec"}}'

# account + permissions
curl -s -X POST <RPC> -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"pulsevm.getAccount","params":{"account_name":"pulse"}}'

History & indexed queries (Hyperion v2): https://a-chain-alpine-hyperion.metalblockchain.org/v2/… (e.g. /v2/history/get_actions?limit=10, /v2/health). Antelope-style /v1/chain REST is not currently exposed on the rebooted testnet — use the native JSON-RPC methods above.

Full method table: /build/api. Endpoints & chain IDs: /network/endpoints.

Ground-truth facts (verifiable on-chain or in-repo) ​

  • Execution model: Antelope (formerly EOSIO), lineage from Leap 5.0.3; consensus: Avalanche Snowman via metalgo.
  • Finality: instant — head block == last irreversible block; no reorgs by construction.
  • Accounts: named, ≤12 chars of a-z, 1-5; hierarchical weighted permissions; native multisig; R1 (secp256r1) keys supported.
  • Core testnet token: SYS (4 decimals). Resources: CPU/NET staked, RAM provisioned per account at creation.
  • Source: MetalBlockchain/pulsevm (open source; created by Metallicus CTO Glenn Mariën, @MlennGarien). All canonical repos: /resources.

Conventions worth knowing before you act ​

  • Token supply lives in the stat table (scope = symbol code); balances in accounts (scope = account).
  • getTableRows wants explicit params (see example above) — include key_type and string bounds for maximum compatibility with deployed node versions.
  • Contract assert failures surface as pulse assert failed: <message> in the RPC error.
  • To distinguish an idle chain from a busy one, compare head_block_num from pulsevm.getInfo over time — blocks are produced when there are transactions to include.