If you are new to console or terminal commands and/or would prefer a wallet with buttons and Oxen branding, we suggest you download the GUI Wallet.
oxen-wallet-cli
we must first have the daemon, oxend
, up and running. The oxend
is your node which the oxen-wallet-cli
broadcasts through. Without the node running the oxen-wallet-cli
will not be able to operate.oxend
file in the folder you extracted the release from. In most cases you will have the following security dialog box pop up.oxend
to open by moving your cursor to the top-left of your screen, clicking the apple logo, and then clicking on system preferences.Security & Privacy
button, check in this new screen that the oxend
file was blocked, if it was you should be confident to click “Open Anyway”.open
and allow
to give the software permission to run.oxen-wallet-cli
file.oxen-wallet-cli
it will request for you to specify a wallet name. For the purposes of this user guide we will use the example name MyWallet
MyWallet
the following text will appear in our terminal. Type in Y
or Yes
to confirm your wallet name.oxen-wallet-cli
has now generated us a wallet called MyWallet
and is now prompting us for a password for our generated wallet.Please note:
When typing the password, the characters will not appear. It will seem as if you are typing and no text is appearing however the terminal is logging every character your clicking including if it is capitalised or lowercase. Write down your wallet name and password on a piece of paper as this information will be required every time we want to enter our wallet. Use a password with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, symbols and make the password at least 9 characters long.
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and clicking enter.oxen-wallet-cli
will generate and spit out several lines of text. Some of the information that was outputted will only ever show once, therefore it is very important to do this next section properly otherwise we may lose access to our account, thus losing access to our funds.Generated new wallet
shows your public address. This address can be shared and will be used to receive $OXEN to your wallet. All Oxen public addresses start with an L....
and are followed with a string of characters. The public address shown will be your primary address however multiple public addresses can be generated from this primary address.address
will re-display it whenever required.viewkey
.oxen-wallet-client
.