Connecting to the main Ethereum network

In this section, we'll see how our wallet can be connected to the main Ethereum network and used for storing, transferring, and managing fungible and non-fungible assets on the Ethereum network:

1. To deploy the wallet and contracts in production, you need to have a geth instance running on the main Ethereum network. Geth is a popular Ethereum client used to run an Ethereum node and connect to the main network. Update the truffle-config.js file to point to the production geth instance as shown in the following. The network ID is set to 1 for the main network:

const HDWalletProvider = require('truffle-hdwallet-provider');
    
module.exports = {
networks: {
development: {
host: "127.0.0.1",     
port: 8545,            
network_id: "*",       
}
prod: {
host: "<Live geth host IP>",     
port: 8545,  ...