IPFS (Kubo), Foundry and Base

Mint pins card media to IPFS, signs with a Foundry keystore, and publishes on Base. It defaults to the Base Sepolia testnet.

Used by

Package	What for	Reads
argus-mint (opens in new tab)	Pinning through the Kubo RPC (compose runs Kubo on loopback `:5001`).	`ARGUS_MINT_IPFS_API`
argus-mint (opens in new tab)	Chain and signing: network, RPC and a Foundry keystore account.	`ARGUS_MINT_NETWORK`, `ARGUS_MINT_RPC_URL`, `ARGUS_MINT_ACCOUNT`, `ARGUS_MINT_KEYSTORE_DIR`, `ARGUS_MINT_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE`
argus-assay (opens in new tab)	Through argus-mint. Its mock replaces all of this.	—

IPFS: mint's compose runs ipfs/kubo on loopback :5001. For your own node, set ARGUS_MINT_IPFS_API to its RPC origin. Keep the RPC port off public networks, because it has admin rights over the node.
Foundry: install it with foundryup, then create a keystore account with cast wallet import. Mint signs with ARGUS_MINT_ACCOUNT from ARGUS_MINT_KEYSTORE_DIR (Foundry's own keystore folder by default). The password is read from ARGUS_MINT_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE.
Base: ARGUS_MINT_NETWORK defaults to base-sepolia, the testnet. ARGUS_MINT_RPC_URL overrides the network's public RPC. Deploying the contract uses BASE_SEPOLIA_RPC_URL or BASE_RPC_URL.

Assay's mock needs none of this.