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Getting an EIP-1193 provider

All of Privy’s ConnectedWallet objects export a standard EIP-1193 provider object. This allows your app to request signatures and transactions from the wallet, using familiar JSON-RPC requests like personal_sign or eth_sendTransaction.

EIP-1193, also known as the Ethereum JavaScript API, is a standardized interface for how applications can request information, signatures, and transactions from a connected wallet.

To request signatures or transactions from a connected wallet, you can either:

  • use the wallet’s EIP-1193 provider to send JSON-RPC requests to the wallet directly
  • pass the wallet to a library like viem, ethers, or wagmi
  • for the embedded wallet specifically, use Privy’s native signMessage and sendTransaction methods to customize the signature and transaction prompts for users

To get a wallet’s EIP-1193 provider, use the ConnectedWallet object’s getEthereumProvider method:

const provider = await wallet.getEthereumProvider();

When requesting signatures and transactions from the wallet, you can either choose to interface with the EIP1193 provider directly, or to pass it to a library like wagmi or viem.