Create a Wallet

Prerequisites

Make sure you meet the following requirements:

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

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| The clio tool and kiod are bundled with the Wire software. Installing Wire core will install the clio and kiod command line tools.

• 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.

Command

To create default or a named wallet and save the wallet password to a file, you can run:

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

Create a default wallet

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

Example Output

clio 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

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

Example Output

clio 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