Install the CLI
One pip package ships the wallet, the node runner, the contract tooling and the miner.
Everything in this track uses the animica Python package:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade animica animica --version
On Debian and Ubuntu the system Python refuses to install packages globally. Use a virtualenv — this is normal and not a problem with Animica:
python3 -m venv ~/animica-venv source ~/animica-venv/bin/activate python3 -m pip install --upgrade animica
The current published version is 10.4.4. If animica --version prints something much older you are on a stale install — --upgrade is doing the work in that command, not install.
Then create a wallet. The keypair is generated locally and the private key never leaves your machine:
animica wallet new --label me animica wallet set-default me animica wallet list
Addresses are bech32m and start with anim1…. They are not 0x hex, and plain bech32 checksums will not validate — if you hand-copy an address and it is rejected, that is the checksum catching a typo, which is exactly its job.
Claim your 10 ANM
Finish this lesson and claim 10 ANM, once per address. Paid from the Animica treasury in batches — allow a few minutes.
Stuck? Ask
Answered by Animica's own free inference network. It is donated GPU capacity, so give it 20-30 seconds.