how to create a wallet

Goal

Create a wallet using keosd.

Before you begin

Make sure you meet the following requirements:

• Familiarize with the cleos wallet create command and its parameters.
• Familiarize with the other cleos wallet commands.
• Install the currently supported version of cleos.

[[info | Note]] | cleos is bundled with the Antelope software. Installing Antelope will also install cleos.

• Understand what an account is and its role in the blockchain.
• Understand Accounts and Permissions in the protocol documents.
• Understand what a public and private key pair is.

Steps

Perform the step below:

Create a default or named wallet and save the wallet password to a file:

cleos wallet create [-n named_wallet] -f <file_to_save_pwd>

Where file_to_save_pwd is the name of the file to write the wallet password to and named_wallet is an optional parameter to assign a name to the wallet.

Some examples are provided below:

• Create a default wallet and save the password to the file default_wallet.pwd:

Example Output

cleos wallet create -f default_wallet.pwd

Creating wallet: default
Save password to use in the future to unlock this wallet.
Without password imported keys will not be retrievable.
saving password to default_wallet.pwd

• Create a named wallet my_wallet and save the password to the file my_wallet.pwd:

Example Output

cleos wallet create -n my_wallet -f my_wallet.pwd

Creating wallet: my_wallet
Save password to use in the future to unlock this wallet.
Without password imported keys will not be retrievable.
saving password to my_wallet.pwd