Creating account

Overview

In order to create a new account, you need to deploy an account contract. Starknet expects a certain interface from an account contract. OpenZeppelin and ArgentX provide account contract implementations that you can use.

There are three ways of deploying a new account contract:

• sending DEPLOY_ACCOUNT transaction
• using already deployed account contract and deploying new one via the Universal Deployer Contract
• (deprecated) sending DEPLOY transaction

Sending DEPLOY_ACCOUNT transaction

Protostar allows you to send the DEPLOY_ACCOUNT transaction from the CLI by calling the deploy-account command. However, before you send such transaction you need to:

1. Find the class hash of the account contract compatible with DEPLOY_ACCOUNT transaction. The entity that declared the account contract should make the class hash easily available. It's recommended to check the README.md in the repository with the source of the account contract:

   • OpenZeppelin/cairo-contracts
   • argentlabs/argent-contracts-starknet

2. Calculate an account contract address with protostar calculate-account-address command

3. Prefund the account contract.

   Network	Recommended method
   devnet	Local Faucet
   testnet	Starknet Faucet
   mainnet	Token Bridge