Goal
Acquire RAM for contract deployment, database tables, and other blockchain resources
Before you begin
Before you follow the step, make sure you fulfill the following items:
- You have an EOSIO account
- Ensure the reference system contracts from
eosio.contractsrepository is deployed and used to manage system resources - You have sufficient token allocated to your account
- Install the currently supported version of
cleos
Note
The cleos tool is bundled with the EOSIO software. Installing EOSIO will also install the cleos tool.
- Unlock your wallet using the
cleos wallet unlockcommand
Steps
Buys RAM in value of 0.1 SYS tokens for account alice:
cleos system buyram alice alice "0.1 SYS" -p alice@activeExample Output
# cleos system buyram alice alice "0.1 SYS" -p alice@active
executed transaction: aa243c30571a5ecc8458cb971fa366e763682d89b636fe9dbe7d28327d1cc4e9 128 bytes 283 us
# eosio <= eosio::buyram {"payer":"alice","receiver":"alice","quant":"0.1000 SYS"}
# eosio.token <= eosio.token::transfer {"from":"alice","to":"eosio.ram","quantity":"0.0995 SYS","memo":"buy ram"}
# eosio.token <= eosio.token::transfer {"from":"alice","to":"eosio.ramfee","quantity":"0.0005 SYS","memo":"ram fee"}
# alice <= eosio.token::transfer {"from":"alice","to":"eosio.ram","quantity":"0.0995 SYS","memo":"buy ram"}
# eosio.ram <= eosio.token::transfer {"from":"alice","to":"eosio.ram","quantity":"0.0995 SYS","memo":"buy ram"}
# alice <= eosio.token::transfer {"from":"alice","to":"eosio.ramfee","quantity":"0.0005 SYS","memo":"ram fee"}
# eosio.ramfee <= eosio.token::transfer {"from":"alice","to":"eosio.ramfee","quantity":"0.0005 SYS","memo":"ram fee"}
warning: transaction executed locally, but may not be confirmed by the network yet ]