Ethrex as a local L2 development node

Prerequisites

• This guide assumes you've read the dev installation guide
• An Ethereum utility tool like rex

Dev mode

In dev mode ethrex acts as a local Ethereum development node and a local layer 2 rollup

ethrex l2 --dev

after running the command the ethrex monitor will open with information about the status of the local L2.

The default port of the L1 JSON-RPC is 8545 you can test it by running

rex block-number http://localhost:8545

The default port of the L2 JSON-RPC is 1729 you can test it by running

rex block-number http://localhost:1729

Guides

For more information on how to perform certain operations, go to Guides.