I’d like to try to upload something, could someone walk me through how to do it with CLI? Or is it super complicated? I bet I’m not the only one who is willing to try.
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I’m just going to give it a go to find out, but bear in mind there are currently known issues with uploading. The team is aware and working on it apparently.
I’m going to give it a go on Windows and share my process in case it’s helpful:
- I downloaded ant.exe. I right clicked in the folder ant.exe is in and selected ‘open in terminal’.
- I faffed around with ant -h to get a list of commands, then did ‘ant file -h’ and ‘ant wallet -h’ to get lists of commands for those.
- I figured I’d try adding a wallet with ANT in first, which will be needed for upload, so I did:
ant wallet import -p (password) (privatekey)
I also sent some Arbitrum ETH to the address so I could try uploading.
- Next, I wrote:
ant file upload -p (filename)
I entered my wallet password, then it paid for chunks and tried uploading, then worked 
Edit: First time I tried the upload failed, but now it’s been sorted! It was an error in payment contract, and now uploads are working, at least for smaller files (I tried 20mb and 26 mb with no trouble) 
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This is the ARB -cryptocoin? Is that and ANT enough, or do I need to have ETH there, too?
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Not ARB - ETH on Arbitrum’s network, which I think the wallet needs for gas… perhaps ARB would work as well?
I don’t even understand what this means 
I have some ETH held in “a normal ETH address”. Now how do I move some to ARB network?
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Your ETH current resides on the ETH Mainnet (most likely). You can go to Uniswap and swap it for the Arbitrum ETH. These are two different networks, so they do not communicate directly. If your ETH is on Metamask, you will need to link them in Uniswap so it can use your Metamask wallet. You can walk through the steps in the upper right corner of the Uniswap interface.
Anyway, You select your ETH token in the “Sell” box, and in the “Buy” box, on the right hand side of the search field there is a drop down. Click that and select “Arbitrum”. Then you click on “Arbitrum ETH” to “Swap across networks.” This is also called bridging.
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Thanks for your help, I appreciate it and will try it some day. Using Metamask and Uniswap is a bit too much just for this moment. They work, I know, but are damn difficult to use when using them rarely.
I was hoping for just making the necessary trades in Bitmart and withdrawing from there. But Bitmart doesn’t have ARB ETH listed, so it seems I can’t do it. Kraken, which is another option for me doesn’t have it either.
Would the ARB -coin work for GAS, or does it need to be ETH on Arbitrum?
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I’m not sure if I understood correctly, you want to close positions on Bitmart (sell the tokens) and send them to a wallet in Arbitrum One?
From a search, it seems Bitmart allows you to withdraw ETH on the Arbitrum network, so should be no need to do the uniswap thing.
ARB ETH won’t be listed separately; just an option when depositing / withdrawing to use the Arbitrum network to send / receive ETH using Arbitrum.
It’s confusing 
(I see you figured this out before I posted!)
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This ended up working just fine!
You choose to withdraw ETH, paste in the ARB address, choose that it is indeed ARB -network and it went just fine. 
And I managed to upload and download it too! I’m a bit happier man now. You can try to download it if you like. It’s nothing fancy, just an extremely blurred and small jpeg.
ant file download ee804204a7553ed6e79c59a6d3802730c55dab534454e6ceb19082b4f7579da8 .
You see, ANT is the only crypto I hold, and everything I have left is on Bitmart. So I wanted an easy way to get some tokens to play with the network. (OK, I have bit of ETH in Ledger, but connecting it to Metamask has been a bit of a nightmare at times).
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Hmm…interestingly it seemed to cost only GAS and no ANT.
I thought you had some kind of problem uploading the tokens to Arbitrum, but since you know everything now and it went well I’m glad 
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