POST
/
v1
/
wallets
Create wallet
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.privy.io/v1/wallets \
  --header 'Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'privy-app-id: <privy-app-id>' \
  --data '{
  "chain_type": "ethereum"
}'
{
  "id": "id2tptkqrxd39qo9j423etij",
  "address": "0xF1DBff66C993EE895C8cb176c30b07A559d76496",
  "chain_type": "ethereum",
  "policy_ids": [],
  "additional_signers": [],
  "owner_id": "rkiz0ivz254drv1xw982v3jq",
  "created_at": 1741834854578,
  "exported_at": null,
  "imported_at": null
}

Authorizations

​
Authorization
string
header
required

Basic Auth header with your app ID as the username and your app secret as the password.

Headers

​
privy-app-id
string
required

ID of your Privy app.

​
privy-idempotency-key
string

Idempotency keys ensure API requests are executed only once within a 24-hour window.

Body

application/json

Response

200 - application/json

Newly created wallet.

The response is of type object.