Faucet for EVM chains
I had a lot of problems with existing simple faucets (the ones that do not force you to use some centralized service like twitter) and had the urge to create one that does not suffer from these problems for a while. Then a tweet of pari in context of faucet problems for the kintsugi merge testnet gave the spark to finally code the faucet.
This faucet uses hCaptcha instead of reCaptcha to not feed the google.
Either download the tar from the release then run:
./bin/fauceth
you can also build the tar via:
./gradlew distTar
or directly run tha app from within the repo via:
./gradlew run
your working dir needs a file called fauceth.properties that looks like this:
hcaptcha.secret=your_hcaptcha_secret
hcaptcha.sitekey=your_hcaptcha_site_key
app.chains=1337702,5Make sure to replace the values with yours. You can also inject these properties via environment variables or system properties.
Optional properties you can set are app.title, app.imageURL, app.amount, app.logging or app.ethkey
In app.title you can use %CHAINNAME, %CHAINTITLE, %CHAINSHORTNAME - this is especially useful if you support multiple chains.
You can change the port by setting the environment variable PORT or passing it as a command line argument like this:
./bin/fauceth -port=420
the default port is 8080
after you started the app you can see the address by accessing locahost:8080/admin - this way you can initially fund it.
What would be real nice would be a web3 faucet - if anyone has ideas how to realize it please contact me. The problem I cannot overcome is how to validate a captcha without a backend.
Yea you could use a PoH blockchain like idena or a dapp like Proof of Humanity or brightId - but often you need the faucet to get started with crypto - so there is a hen and egg problem here.
AGPLv3