How To Create An Account¶

Create account by Seele Node¶

You can create a Seele account by Seele Node.

Setting Up a Node will help you acquire a Seele Node.

• Generate a Seele account on shard 1:

// Request
node key --shard 1

// Response
public key:  0xb4153ca4090a11af1984cdf20b0d0cbed5ff97a1
private key: 0x28f74ba46964f6bd09be55654d58eacea72b57449d5636a8c347c15a9104f

Currently, Seele has 4 shards. You can choose shard number from 1 to 4 for your account.

Create account by Seele Client¶

You can also create a Seele account by a full node client or a light node client.

Create a Full Node Client will help you on how to acquire a full node client.

Create a Light Node Client will help you on how to acquire a light node client.

• Generate a Seele account on shard 1:

// Request
client key --shard 1

// Response
public key:  0xb4153ca4090a11af1984cdf20b0d0cbed5ff97a1
private key: 0x28f74ba46964f6bd09be55654d58eacea72b57449d5636a8c347c15a9104f

Generate keyfile for account¶

• Sometimes you may need to store the account private key to a file, command:

// Request
client savekey --privatekey 0x28f74ba46964f6bd09be55654d58eacea72b57449d5636a8c347c15a9104fbc3 --file .keystore-shard1

// Response
Password:
Repeat password:
store key successful