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The following guide aims to provide examples to help you start building Dash-based applications. To make the best use of this document, you may want to install the current version of Dash Core, either from [source][core git] or from a [pre-compiled executable][core executable].

Once installed, you'll have access to three programs: dashd, dash-qt, and dash-cli.

• dash-qt provides a combination full Dash peer and wallet frontend. From the Help menu, you can access a console where you can enter the RPC commands used throughout this document.

• dashd is more useful for programming: it provides a full peer which you can interact with through RPCs to port 9998 (or 19998 for testnet / 18332 for regtest).

• dash-cli allows you to send RPC commands to dashd from the command line. For example, dash-cli help

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Configuration file

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All three programs get settings from dash.conf in the DashCore application directory:

• Windows: %APPDATA%\DashCore\

• OSX: $HOME/Library/Application Support/DashCore/

• Linux: $HOME/.dashcore/

To use dashd and dash-cli, you will need to add a RPC password to your dash.conf file. Both programs will read from the same file if both run on the same system as the same user, so any long random password will work:

rpcpassword=change_this_to_a_long_random_password

You should also make the dash.conf file only readable to its owner. On Linux, Mac OSX, and other Unix-like systems, this can be accomplished by running the following command in the Dash Core application directory:

chmod 0600 dash.conf

For development, it's safer and cheaper to use Dash's test network (testnet), regression test mode (regtest), or a develper network (devnet) described below.

Questions about Dash use are best sent to the [Dash forum][forum tech support] and [Discord channels][Discord channels]. Errors or suggestions related to documentation on dash-docs.github.io can be [submitted as an issue][docs issue].

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