Generate a New Wallet to Hold Your New Smart Contract: ​

To create a wallet, we'll be using Koinos CLI. If you arent familiar with how the Koinos CLI works, head over to our lesson on The Koinos CLI to get started.

Once you have the Koinos CLI installed, create a new wallet using the following command:

🔐 > create my.wallet azerty

Here, we created a new wallet called my.wallet and it is encrypted with the password azerty.

You should see output similar to this:

🔐 > create my.wallet azerty
Created and opened new wallet: my.wallet
Address: 19yp497RPiuWwsNUWp9cHWfbWUupHsRQLE

The file my.wallet will be generated automatically in the directory where .koinos-cli was executed.

You may also use the command generate which will display the address and private key, but it will not automatically save the wallet information, you will need to follow up with the import command. If you need to see your address again, you can with the address command.

If you are just getting started with Koinos and are trying out our test net, you can grab some free tKOIN to interact with the network. Follow the Using the Discord Faucet tutorial to get 100 tKoin.

Once you get your tKOIN from the fountain, you can query your balance with the koin.balance_of command which will display your new balance of 100 tKOIN. While it appears as KOIN, be assured that it is actually tKOIN unless you are connected to the main net RPC and have bought real KOIN from an exchange.

🔓 > koin.balance_of
100 KOIN

Now that we have some tKOIN, lets upload our smart contract.