Using unlocked accounts with ganache --fork & --unlock

[dapp-whisperer]

Using ganache with the --fork and --unlock options allows for 'taking over' mainnet addresses on a local fork, which is extremely useful for testing complex defi interactions.

With web3js, you can 'own' these unlocked accounts just by using them in the 'from' field of a TX, without having the private key.

(Assume 0xde0B295669a9FD93d5F28D9Ec85E40f4cb697BAe is the unlocked account from the CLI)

I'm not an expert on ethers, but I'm not sure how this feature can be replicated with the Signer paradigm.

[zemse]

I had once used address to get a ganache signer, maybe that should work

const provider = ethers.providers.Web3Provider(ganacheProvider)
const signer = provider.getSigner('0xyouraddress');

await signer.sendTransaction({
  to: '0xdestnation',
  value: '10000'
})