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privateKeyToAccount

Callable

  • Get an Account object from the privateKey

    Parameters

    • privateKey: Bytes

      String or Uint8Array of 32 bytes

    • optionalignoreLength: boolean

      if true, will not error check length

    Returns Web3Account

    A Web3Account object

    The Web3Account.signTransaction is not stateful if directly imported from accounts package and used. Network access is required to get the account nonce and chainId to sign the transaction, so use Web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction for signing transactions.

    :

    web3.eth.accounts.privateKeyToAccount("0x348ce564d427a3311b6536bbcff9390d69395b06ed6c486954e971d960fe8709");

    >    {
                address: '0xb8CE9ab6943e0eCED004cDe8e3bBed6568B2Fa01',
                privateKey: '0x348ce564d427a3311b6536bbcff9390d69395b06ed6c486954e971d960fe8709',
                sign,
                signTransaction,
                encrypt,
        }