Cardano CLI Preprod Query UTXO Error

[HeptaSean]

@Ralph_L_Aurage

When you say playground instances, do you mean it can’t be used in a production environment?

I just called it “playground”, because that’s what they call the thing I get without paying.

I really don’t know if their paid offers are meant to be used for production. I had the impression that it is more an exploration and development tool.

@Ralph_L_Aurage

mint of an NFT collection, do you think they would be able to handle something like that?

On the other hand: If it is not a huge hype, it probably does not use that much resources.

But still: all keys would be in their system, which is strange.

You say that you are not able to run a node yourself, but you do have a web server, where the website for that mint will be hosted?

@Ralph_L_Aurage

If not, can you recommend a service out there where I can essentially “rent” a node for the likes of an NFT collection mint? Thank you

Don’t know. You still seem to use cardano-cli. Since that only works locally over a Unix socket file, they would have to give you shell access. Not aware of any service that does that.

As said previously:

@HeptaSean

Hmm, yes, then writing it as a nodejs application might be closer to what you are comfortable with:

• cardano-serialization-lib can be used to construct transactions: https://github.com/Emurgo/cardano-serialization-lib/blob/master/doc/getting-started/generating-transactions.md
• If you want to be as independent as possible, you can use something like https://ogmios.dev/ and https://cardanosolutions.github.io/kupo/ to monitor and submit transactions on your own node.
• Or you use an API like https://docs.blockfrost.io/ for that, but then you are dependent on that.

All of that would be more elegant than calling out to the shell to cardano-cli in my opinion.

Write your application in JS without any callouts to cardano-cli. Use Blockfrost to query the blockchain and submit transactions. I’d run it on a server, but if you want you can also run it at home.