How to access the `Alice` account on a Parity Substrate developer chain?

Question

The Substrate Collectables Workshop suggests at some point that the developer chain comes with a prefunded account for Alice.

Let's go into the Transfer app, and make a transaction. The default account named "Alice" is pre-funded with a ton of Units.

However, connecting Polkadot-JS to my local --dev chain does not come with an account; also the Transfer app is not visible.

What's the mnemonic seed for the Alice account or how to recover that account? Is there any way?

It should be when you start the UI for the first time, that accounts Alice - Freddie are pre-populated. Have you tried clearing any cache/browser storage for this site? — Shawn Tabrizi, Jul 17 '19 at 13:33
it's actually the first time I used chrome (because Firefox didn't work); so I don't think it's a caching issue. — q9f, Jul 17 '19 at 13:37

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '19 at 12:16

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As mentioned in this post, the seed for Alice is //Alice, however, it's important to select the raw seed option and not the mnemonic seed.

Note, make sure to select the Schnorrkel cryptography sr25519, not Edwards ed25519. The same works for //Bob

answered Jul 17 '19 at 12:16

q9f

it doesnt look like this works in the new current polkadot js apps ? https://polkadot.js.org/apps/ – Decentration Aug 05 '22 at 09:53

Bulat · Answer 2 · 2023-03-24T06:45:55.353

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As mentioned here Alice raw secret seed is:

bottom drive obey lake curtain smoke basket hold race lonely fit walk//Alice

edited Mar 24 '23 at 06:45

answered Dec 29 '21 at 11:04

Bulat

The well-known keys link is broken; please update your comment. – Victor Aremu Jan 11 '23 at 07:57

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 30 '21 at 17:00

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If the dev accounts are not pre-populating in the UI check out my answer to this question: Where are accounts located in substrate-node-template?

In chain_spec.rs make sure you set your chain type to Development or Local.

answered Dec 30 '21 at 17:00

Squirrel

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