Connecting with providers

As a consumer, you won't be able to consume any data assets before connecting to the right providers, and you can do that in two ways.

• Add provider through UI 1. Go to "Advanced" -> "Peers" tab

2. Enter the provider enode address to the "Add peer" input

3. Provider's node should be added to the connected peers

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• Add provider through static-nodes.json file 1. Go to your local NDM package 2. Access nethermind/Data/static-nodes.json 3. Add provider's enode address to the .json file (remember about the proper formatting - an array of strings) 4. Run NDM 5. You should see in the logs that your node is connecting to the given enode

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