diff --git a/util/checkpoints.pl b/util/checkpoints.pl
index a79ba2753..be6bf28be 100755
--- a/util/checkpoints.pl
+++ b/util/checkpoints.pl
@@ -7,16 +7,16 @@ use strict;
 
 # Generate checkpoint data for use in src/chainparams.cpp
 my $perday  = 1152;
-my $hush    = "./src/hush-cli";
-my $gethash = "$hush getblockhash";
+my $cli     = "./src/hush-cli";
+my $gethash = "$cli getblockhash";
 my $stride  = shift || 1000;
 if ($stride =~ m/help/) {
     print "To generate checkpoint data every 1000 blocks: $0 &> checkpoints.txt\n";
     print "To generate checkpoint data every X blocks: $0 X &> checkpoints.txt\n";
     print "To generate checkpoint data every X blocks starting at height Y: $0 X Y &> checkpoints.txt\n";
+    print "To generate checkpoint data every X blocks starting at height Y for -ac_name CHAIN: $0 X Y CHAIN &> checkpoints.txt\n";
     exit 0;
 }
-
 unless ($stride == int($stride) and $stride >= 0) {
     print "Invalid stride! Must be an integer > 0\n";
     exit 1;
@@ -28,8 +28,17 @@ unless ($start_height == int($start_height) and $start_height >= 0) {
     exit 1;
 }
 
+my $acname = shift;
+if ($acname) {
+    # TODO: is acname valid?
+    $cli .= " -ac_name=$acname";
+    # TODO: assumes all HSC's will have a blocktime of 60s
+    $perday = 1440;
+}
+
+
 my $count   = 0;
-my $blocks  = qx{$hush getblockcount};
+my $blocks  = qx{$cli getblockcount};
 if($?) {
     print "ERROR, exiting...\n";
     exit 1;
@@ -53,7 +62,7 @@ while (1) {
 	chomp $blockhash;
 	print qq{($block,     uint256S("0x$blockhash"))\n};
 }
-my $time    = qx{$hush getblock $last |grep time|cut -d: -f2| sed 's/,//g'};
+my $time    = qx{$cli getblock $last |grep time|cut -d: -f2| sed 's/,//g'};
 chomp($time);
 # TODO: This is Linux-only and assumes new (not legacy) dir
 my $line1       = qx{grep --text height=$prev   ~/.hush/HUSH3/debug.log};