Role Center

The application come with assisted setup and default settings to connect with some blockchains.
To ease your navigation, you can select the role « Blockchain Processor » under your user settings.

Why connect to a Blockchain Data provider ?

In order to fetch data about cryto wallets : balance, incoming transactions but also submiting a transaction, Business Central need to connect to « Blockchain Nodes ».

Running a Blockchain Node can require notable investment and technical skills. Thankfully there is free and public providers on internet to connect to, and fetch blockchain informations.

Connect Business Central to a Blockchain Network

The page « Blockchain Network » show the list of existing blockchains networks configured for Business Central to connect to.

To add a new blockchain, you can use Assisted Setup with default suggested option about public and free end points. Select the Network you’re intrested in and let the setup guide you.

Supported network with default and free settings

Manual configuration

If the assisted setup does not offer the blockchain you are intrested in, or if you like to use a specific Blockchain information provider, please take in consideration :

• You can configure a blockchain connection manualy, but it may need technical skills and the blockchain information provider may share data in supported format for existing blockchain program handler (listed above)
  
  
• Unsupported blockchains data provider may need some additional development to support it.
  You can submit us the request to support a new blockchain, or look to implement it yourself using our technical documentation : Application Extensibility for AL Developper

Provider Asking for API Keys

Some public service offer free blockchain connection and query, but still need you to have an account created. As exemple this is not needed for Blockcstream.com (Bitcoin service provider) but is required for Etherscan.io (Ethereum).

For such case, the assisted setup provide a link to the web page of account creation.

Once you have created the account, please navigate on the web site, under your profile to look for the « API Key » section. Look-out for a button to add a free API Key to your account.

Finally the API Key should be copy-pasted under Business Central Assisted setup to continue.

Test the Blockchain Connection

Once the blockchain connection is setup, you can navigate to the blockchain network card to see offered options.

In the action bar, you should be able to use « Generate a new account ».
You can also use the « Refresh Balance » action on newly created wallet to verify if the connection is running properly.