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Creating Accounts

The simplest way to create NEAR accounts is through the NEAR Wallet, however, you can also create accounts using local tools.

The NEAR Wallet

The NEAR wallet is our web-based user-friendly wallet. You can readily use it without installing any software or add-ons (e.g browser extensions) on your devices.

Testnet

In testnet you can directly create named accounts such as your-name.near. Simply go to the wallet, pick a name of your choice, and you are ready to go. Remember to save your mnemonic phrase somewhere safe.

Mainnet

In the mainnet wallet you will be first given an implicit account, which you need to fund. After that, you can use your implicit account to create a named one.

Local Implicit Account

To create an implicit account locally, it takes two steps: create a key-pair locally, and then you derive its address.

Open your teminal/cmd to run the command that will allow you perform the steps stated above

1. Create a ED25519 key-pair locally using near cli

near generate-key my-new-account

A new key-pair will be stored at ~/.near-credentials/testnet/my-new-account.json.

2. Convert the public_key to an account ID. {#converting-a-public-key-to-an-account-id}

Use near-cli to convert the public_key from the .json file to its related NEAR account address.

Open the javascript console of near-cli using the command below

near repl
// Paste this code in the javascript console
const pk58 = 'ed25519:<data>'
nearAPI.utils.PublicKey.fromString(pk58).data.hexSlice()

The output string will be the account ID in hex (without '), for example 98793cd91a3f870fb126f66285808c7e094afcfc4eda8a970f6648cdf0dbd6de.

You can share this id with anyone to receive Near tokens. At least 0.001Ⓝ is needed to start using the account.

:::tip You can also use other languages to infer the implicit address, for example, in python you can use the base58 package: base58.b58decode(<data>).hex() :::

Local Named Account

In order to create a named account you have to ask the relevant smart contract to create a sub-account for you: near in mainnet, and testnet in testnet.

You can use near-cli for this:

near call testnet create_account '{"new_account_id": "<account-name>.testnet", "new_public_key": "ed25519:<data>"}' --deposit 0.00182 --accountId <account-with-funds>

Notice that you need an already funded account, because you are making a contract call.

:::tip The public key that you pass will become the Full Access key of the account. :::

:::info For sub-accounts check the near-cli create-account docs. :::