Mainnet Account Setup Guidelines

Updated: 2023/2/28 by

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In order to deploy your smart contracts to the mainnet, you need to register, fund, and setup a new account.

Note: This account will be used for production purposes. Make sure you handle keys appropriately. Using a Key Management Service is the best practice. By default, this command generates an ECDSA key pair on the P-256 curve. Keep in mind the CLI is intended for development purposes only and is not recommended for production use. Handling keys using a Key Management Service is the best practice.

Create an account

You can easily create a new funded account on mainnet using the Flow CLI. You only need to run a single command flow accounts create and select a name for the account and the network, which in this case is mainnet. After that the account private key is saved into a seperate file called {name}.pkey. We advice switching to KMS system for production use which you can read more about here.

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flow accounts create
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Enter an account name: mike
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✔ Testnet
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🎉 New account created with address 0x77e6ae4c8c2f1dd6 and name mike on Testnet network.
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Here’s a summary of all the actions that were taken:
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 - Added the new account to flow.json.
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 - Saved the private key to mike.pkey.
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 - Added mike.pkey to .gitignore.

Read more about the command in the CLI account creation documentation.