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How to Create an Account in Subkey

Related concepts

For the underlying concepts, see Accounts (advanced).

IMPORTANT

In this article you will learn how to create a new account in Subkey, which is meant for advanced users. If you want to know how to create an account in the Polkadot Developer Signer , please refer to this article.

How to create a new account in Subkey

1. If you don't have Rust and Cargo installed yet, you'll need to download the stable release using these steps.

2. Next, open a terminal (Mac) or PowerShell (Windows) and enter the following two commands to install the dependencies and Subkey. The official guide is here.

curl https://getsubstrate.io -sSf | bash -s -- --fast
cargo install --force subkey --git https://github.com/paritytech/substrate

3. Then, use the following command to generate an account.

subkey generate

The output should be something similar to this:

Secret phrase 'your seed phrase will appear here' is account:
Secret seed:       0xc8fa03532fb22ee1f7f6908b9c02b4e72483f0dbd66e4cd456b8f34c6230b849
Public key (hex):  0xd6a3105d6768e956e9e5d41050ac29843f98561410d3a47f9dd5b3b227ab8746
Public key (SS58): 5Gv8YYFu8H1btvmrJy9FjjAWfb99wrhV3uhPFoNEr918utyR
Account ID:        0xd6a3105d6768e956e9e5d41050ac29843f98561410d3a47f9dd5b3b227ab8746
SS58 Address:      5Gv8YYFu8H1btvmrJy9FjjAWfb99wrhV3uhPFoNEr918utyR

This is your new account. Make sure to save your 12-word mnemonic phrase safely. For more Subkey commands, please refer to this guide.

If you are more of a visual learner, check this video guide:

Create your Polkadot Account using Subkey