Guides

Step-by-step tutorials on how to use the tools, integrate Symbol with other technologies, and combine the built-in features to architect solutions.

Account

Creating an account

Create a new Symbol account to start sending and receiving transactions.

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Getting the account information

Get the public key and balance of an account.

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Reading transactions from an account

Get the complete list of transactions involving an account.

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Getting the amount of assets sent to an account

Check the number of asset units you have sent to an account.

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Common Hacks and Scams

It should come as no surprise that cryptocurrency users are targeted by a wide variety of scammers, hackers, and thieves. While some attempts may come in familiar forms such as impersonation or misinformation, the digital nature of cryptocurrencies opens the door to a number of novel approaches. This page is intended to help you ensure the security of your assets by explaining a number of common scams and security considerations. This list is by no means comprehensive, and you are strongly encouraged to research the topic further for the sake of your wallet’s security.

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Account Restriction

Preventing spam attacks with account restrictions

Learn how to add and remove account restrictions.

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Getting the account restrictions attached to an address

Get the list of account’s restrictions.

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Aggregate Transaction

Sending multiple transactions together

Send transactions to different accounts at the same time, using aggregate transactions.

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Creating an escrow contract

Learn about aggregate bonded transactions creating an escrow contract.

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Cosigning aggregate bonded transactions automatically

Create a bot to cosign automatically transactions that require your account’s signature.

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Cosigning aggregate bonded transactions

Cosign aggregate transactions pending to be signed.

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Adding cosignatures to aggregate complete trasactions

This guide will show you how to add cosignatures to an aggregate complete transaction without using the partial cache.

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Block

Getting a block by height

Get the block information given a height.

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Listening to new blocks

Get notified when a new block is included.

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Blockchain

Retrieving the global mosaic supply

Different values regarding the total supply of symbol.xym are available in real-time, through REST endpoints on any Symbol API node. Click on each endpoint below for an example.

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Cross-Chain Swaps

Atomic cross-chain swap between public and private chain

Trade tokens between different blockchains without using an intermediary party in the process.

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Harvesting

Node properties

There is a large number of node-related settings that can be customized in Symbol.

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Activating delegated harvesting using the Desktop Wallet

Share your account’s importance securely with a node and get rewarded.

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Activating delegated harvesting manually

Share your account’s importance securely with a node and get rewarded.

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Activating remote harvesting

Harvest new blocks through a proxy account for added security.

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Metadata

Assigning metadata to an account

Add custom data to an account.

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Assigning metadata to a namespace

Add custom data to a namespace.

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Assigning metadata to a mosaic

Add custom data to a mosaic.

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Getting metadata entries attached to an account

Get the list of metadata entries attached to an account.

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Getting metadata entries attached to a namespace

Get the list of metadata entries attached to an namespace.

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Getting metadata entries attached to a mosaic

Get the list of metadata entries attached to an mosaic.

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Updating metadata entries

Update any existent metadata entry.

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Migration

Migrating from NIS1 to Symbol

With Symbol, most of the previously available NIS1 features have evolved. This document will help you upgrade your application’s previous NIS1 features to the newly available Symbol technology.

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Monitoring

Turning the asynchronous transaction announcement into synchronous

Handy snippet to announce a transaction and wait until this is confirmed.

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Mosaic

Creating a mosaic

Tokenize an asset using mosaics.

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Modifying the mosaic supply

If a mosaic was created with the “Supply Mutable” property, you can make more tokens or reduce the total supply.

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Getting the mosaic information

Get the ownership, divisibility, duration, and flags for a given mosaic identifier.

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Mosaic Restriction

Restricting mosaic transfers

Limit how accounts can transact with Mosaic Restrictions.

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Delegating mosaic restrictions to a third party

Allow another account to add restrictions to your mosaics.

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Getting mosaic global restrictions attached to a mosaic

Get the list of mosaic global restrictions.

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Getting mosaic address restrictions attached to an account

Get the list of mosaic address restrictions.

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Multisig Account

Creating a multisig account

This guide will show you how to setup a joint account.

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Removing a signer from a multisig account

This guide will show you how to remove a cosignatory from a multisig account.

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Modifying a multisig account min approval

This guide will show you how to increase and decrease the minimum number of signatures needed to execute a multisig transaction.

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Adding a new signer to a multisig account

This guide will show you how to add a new cosignatory to a multisig account.

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Creating a multi-level multisig account

This guide will show you how to connect multiple multisig accounts to achieve advanced on-chain authorization logic.

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Sending a multisig transaction

This guide will show you how to issue transactions from a multisig account.

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Namespace

Registering a namespace

Create a unique name to identify your assets.

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Creating a subnamespace

Once you have a registered root namespace, you can create up to 3 levels of subnamespaces to organize your assets.

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Linking a namespace to an address

Alias an address with a namespace so that others can reference the account in a more friendly way when issuing transactions.

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Linking a namespace to a mosaic

Alias an mosaic with a namespace so that others can reference it in a more friendly way when issuing transactions.

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Getting the namespace information

Get the ownership and duration for a given namespace identifier.

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Extending a namespace registration period

This guide shows you how to extend the rental period of a namespace.

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Network

Private test networks

This guide will walk you through the process of setting up your own private network using Symbol.

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Running a node

This guide walks you through the process of setting up a node to join Symbol’s public network.

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Node properties

There is a large number of node-related settings that can be customized in Symbol.

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Network properties

There is a large number of network-related settings that can be customized in Symbol.

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How to connect to MongoDB

Learn how to access your API node’s MongoDB instance.

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Using Symbol Bootstrap

How to use this handy node deployment tool.

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Running a node manually

This guide walks you through the process of setting up a node to join Symbol’s network without using Symbol Bootstrap.

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Running a secure node

How to run a Symbol node with added security.

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Non-custodial node setup

How to relinquish control of a node’s main account to an external account, so that the external account’s private key is never required in the node setup process.

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Maintaining a Node

How to keep your Symbol node up and running healthily.

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Receipt

Getting the asset identifier behind a namespace with receipts

Get the resolution for a given alias and transaction using receipts.

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Transfer Transaction

Sending mosaics and messages between two accounts

Define, sign, and announce a transfer transaction.

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Sending an encrypted message

Send an encrypted message that only can be read by the recipient account.

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