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Create address

post/api/v2/{coin}/wallet/{walletId}/address

Creates a new receive address for a wallet. If you create a forwarder address, whenever it receives assets, BitGo automatically deploys a forwarder smart contract to flush the balance to the base address. See Blockchain Reference topics to learn more about address management, fees, and consolidations for specific assets.

Note: New Ethereum addresses require blockchain confirmation before you can consolidate from them.

Path Parameters

  • coinstringRequired
    A cryptocurrency or token ticker symbol.
    Example: "btc"
  • walletIdstringRequired
    Example: "59cd72485007a239fb00282ed480da1f"
    Pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{32}$

Request Body

chain integer
Allowed values: 0 1 10 11 20 21 30 31 40 41
Default: 1
Example: 1
label
string or null
A human-readable label for the address.
Max length: <= 250 characters
Example: Bob's Hot Wallet Address
lowPriority boolean
Whether the deployment of the address forwarder contract should use a low priority fee key (ETH only)
Default: false
gasPriceOne of
Explicit gas price to use when deploying the forwarder contract (ETH only). If not given, defaults to the current estimated network gas price.
eip1559 object
(ETH forwarderVersion: 0 wallets only) Specify eip1559 fee parameters in forwarder creation transactions.
maxPriorityFeePerGas string required
Max priority tip price for EIP1559 transactions. Only for ETH and ERC20 tokens.
maxFeePerGas string required
Max total gasPrice for EIP1559 transactions. Only for ETH and ERC20 tokens.
forwarderVersion integer
(ETH only) Specify forwarder version to use in address creation. To reduce the cost of creating ETH forwarders, BitGo uses a set of forwarder contracts that deploy as a simple proxy to a single implementation (https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1167). Additionally, forwarders deploy using opcode, CREATE2, enabling them to deploy only when needed (https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1014). These forwarders otherwise operate identically to prior ETH forwarders. Use this flag to specify the forwarder contract version when deploying a forwarder contract. Use 0 for the older forwarder (https://github.com/BitGo/eth-multisig-v2). Use 1 for the new fee-improved forwarder (https://github.com/BitGo/eth-multisig-v4). Use 2 for NFT-supported forwarders and version 2 wallets. Use 3 for TSS wallets. Use 4 for forwarders with the same functionality as v2 but with some changes. v4 is applicable for Arbitrum, Optimism, ZkSync, and other EVM-compatible chains that we will onboard in the future.
Minimum: >= 0
Maximum: <= 4
format string
Format to use for the new address, if the coin which supports multiple formats for an address. Currently, Bitcoin Cash is the only coin which has support for multiple address formats. For Bitcoin Cash, BitGo supports both the base58 (legacy) address format, as well as the newer CashAddr format. The default address format is base58. To request a CashAddr formatted address instead, use the value "cashaddr" as the format.
Example: cashaddr
javascript
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wallet.createAddress({ label: 'My address' }).then(function (address) {
  // print new address
  console.dir(address);
});

200 Response

id string
platform public id for an address
Example: 59cd72485007a239fb00282ed480da1f
Match pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{32}$
address string
Max length: <= 250 characters
Example: 2MvrwRYBAuRtPTiZ5MyKg42Ke55W3fZJfZS
chain integer
Allowed values: 0 1 10 11 20 21 30 31 40 41
Example: 1
index integer
coin string
lastNonce integer
Default: -1
wallet string
The wallet which contains this address
Example: 59cd72485007a239fb00282ed480da1f
Match pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{32}$
coinSpecific object
Properties which are specific to certain coin types
xlm object
txlm object
balance object
Balance of the address. In case of Eth and Celo, if returnBalancesForToken is passed with includeBalances, then it will return token balance in the address object. This field will be present only when "includeBalances" query param is passed as true.
updated string <date-time>
The last time a transaction affected the balance of this address
balance integer
The cleared balance of the address
Example: 50000
balanceString string
String representation of "balance". Guaranteed to not lose precision.
Example: 50000
totalReceived integer
The total amount received on this address (in the chain's base unit)
totalSent integer
The total amount send from this address (in the chain's base unit)
confirmedBalanceString string
The total balance of confirmed transactions for the address (in the chain's base unit). Guaranteed to not lose precision.
Example: 40000
spendableBalanceString string
The total balance of the address (in the chain's base unit) which may be used as inputs for creating new transactions in string representation. Guaranteed to not lose precision.
Example: 40000
label
string or null
A human-readable label for the address.
Max length: <= 250 characters
Example: Bob's Hot Wallet Address
addressType string
Allowed values: p2sh p2shP2wsh p2wsh p2tr p2trMusig2
Example: p2sh

400 Response

One of
error string required
Human-readable error message
requestId string required
Client request id
context object
Properties that apply to a specific error name
name string required
Error code