Add Ethereum Classic (ETC) to getDefaultProvider

[ricmoo]

The maintainers of gastracker.io provide JSON-RPC endpoints for the "Ethereum Classic" chain, which they have let us know we can use ( please see this thread ). Thanks!! :)

Note: ETC defaultProvider support in ethers.js is provided tenuously, as the development community is limited and we have often experienced blockchain explorer down time and out-of-date tooling (such as nodes, making it difficult to sync). Issues involving exclusively ETC will, in general, be lower priority.

[ricmoo]

This has been published and should be ready to use. Let me know if you have any problems! :)

[husainfazel]

The maintainers of gastracker.io provide JSON-RPC endpoints for the "Ethereum Classic" chain, which they have let us know we can use ( please see this thread ). Thanks!! :)

@ricmoo Just to let you know that Gastracker.io will be sunsetted soon: https://bye.gastracker.io but the ETC Cooperative have released an Infura style solution for ETC: https://ethercluster.com which has JSON-RPC end points for both mainnet and the kotti testnet.

[bobsummerwill]

Happy New Year, @ricmoo!

So yeah, @ETCCooperative provide hosted endpoints using EtherCluster for ETC, Kotti and Mordor networks, and we also just contributed Ethercluster to Hyperledger Labs. It's our open source alternative to Infura:

https://medium.com/ethereum-classic/ethercluster-an-open-source-alternative-to-infura-b8799b2122d3

https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/ethercluster

[ricmoo]

Thanks for the update. I’ll update this in v5 this week. What is Kotti? Formerly known as the ETC morden fork? Or something else?

[bobsummerwill]

Kotti is the ETC equivalent of Gorli. POA using Clique. And Mordor is the new POW testnet for ETC. Replacing Classic Mordon (which is only supported by a subset of clients), and Kensington and Nazgul (both temporary POW testnets for Atlantis:

https://etcnodes.org/
https://kotti.etcnodes.org/
https://mordor.etcnodes.org/

So you have Kotti (POA), Mordor (POW) and ETC mainnet.

https://chainid.network/

[ricmoo]

@bobsummerwill Updating this now. :)

So Mordor is a replacement for Morden?

The mordor endpoint is currently returning a 405 error... But according to that other link you sent, it should be chainId 63, correct?

Thanks! :)

[bobsummerwill]

It is, yes!

@soc1c's launch of Mordor at ETC Summit:

Video - https://youtu.be/Msi6EItbslk?t=23510
Article - https://en.ethereumworldnews.com/ethereum-classic-interview/

@YazzyYaz please could you help Richard to troubleshoot whatever is up with the Ethercluster Mordor endpoint?

Best wishes!