ethereumjs-wallet
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A lightweight wallet implementation. At the moment it supports key creation and conversion between various formats.
It is complemented by the following packages:
Motivations are:
Features not supported:
Constructors:
fromPrivateKey - create an instance based on a raw keyfromV1 - import a wallet (Version 1 of the Ethereum wallet format)fromV3 - import a wallet (Version 3 of the Ethereum wallet format)fromEthSale - import an Ethereum Pre Sale walletInstance methods:
getPrivateKey - return the private keygetPublicKey - return the public keygetAddress - return the addresstoV3 - return the wallet as a JSON string (Version 3 of the Ethereum wallet format)All of the above instance methods return a Buffer or JSON. Use the String suffixed versions for a string output, such as getPrivateKeyString.
FAQs
Utilities for handling Ethereum keys
The npm package ethereumjs-wallet receives a total of 86,787 weekly downloads. As such, ethereumjs-wallet popularity was classified as popular.
We found that ethereumjs-wallet demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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