Lesson 5: Error: invalid hexlify value

[TravCrypto]

Hello all, I recently ran into an issue when going through the course. To preface this, I am a beginner at programming, so I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge/understanding.

I am at https://youtu.be/gyMwXuJrbJQ?t=25651 in the video, where Patrick instructs you to run node deploy.js.

• I have the Ganache application up and running.

• I have tried looking over my code for the past ~15 minutes to find errors.

• I've noticed that the parentheses are a pinkish/purple color in my code where Patrick's are white. (not sure if that's relevant.)

This is the error message that I receive:

Error: invalid hexlify value (argument="value", value="30fc1e52a317402fcad94e13ed9a6b2c887749eedf27579db8805b2bc6b968fc, provider", code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=bytes/5.7.0)

[othaime-en]

Hey @TravCrypto the error is on line 12. The private key and the object provider are two separate things and should not be inside the same quote. only the private key is a string not the provider object. So the "" should start and end with the private key alone.
e.g. It should be const wallet = new ethers.Wallet( "30fc.......8fc", provider)

[TravCrypto]

Thank you @othaime-en this was in fact the solution!

However, as soon as I fixed that, I ran node deploy.js again and received the following error:

Error: could not detect network (event="noNetwork", code=NETWORK_ERROR, version=providers/5.7.0)

[othaime-en]

Make sure that your ganache instance is up and running.

[TravCrypto]

It is, from my understanding.

[othaime-en]

Checkout this discussion here about this similar issue. #34 (comment)