Creating a wallet

This guide explains how you can create a MilkyWay wallet and generate your milk account address. Please note that in the future more user-friendly ways might come, but for the time being this is the only way to safely create a wallet.

Download the milkywayd binary file

First thing you have to do is get your milkywayd binary file. You can do so by either downloading pre-compiled binaries from our GitHub repository, or compile it yourself following the instructions inside the same repository.

Generate a wallet

Now that you have your milkywayd binary file, you can generate a wallet. To do so, you will have to choose a key name:

milkywayd keys add <Key name>

This will return:

  • The address of your newly generated wallet

  • The recovery phrase (mnemonic) of that wallet

Once generated, the wallet will be securely stored in your machine protected by the passphrase you have chosen while creating it.

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