Create Account

The following example shows how to create an account with keyring.

// Import Keyring class and utility functions
const { Keyring } = require('@polkadot/keyring');
const { stringToU8a } = require('@polkadot/util');

async function main () {
  // Create account seed for Alice
  const ALICE_SEED = 'Alice'.padEnd(32, ' ');

  // Create an instance of the Keyring
  const keyring = new Keyring();

  // Create pair and add Alice to keyring pair dictionary (with account seed)
  const pairAlice = keyring.addFromSeed(stringToU8a(ALICE_SEED));

  console.log(`Created keyring pair for Alice with address: ${keyring.getPair(pairAlice.address).address}`);
}

main().catch(console.error).finally(() => process.exit());