Accounts
In this chapter, we’ll explore account creation, restoration, and performing both read and write operations. Let’s start with creating a Sui account.
Creating new Accounts
To create a new Sui Account, simply invoke the static create method on the Account class.
Importing an existing Account
In case you already have existing account credentials like a Bech32 encoded private key or passphrase that you'd like to import and use, there's an overloaded import static method on the Accounts class. Pass in either the private key string or the passphrase.
For a private key:
For a passphrase:
Get Account Balance
Once you've an account, you can either retrieve the balance for a specific coin type or for all coin types.
For a specific coin type:
This defaults to the 0x2::sui::SUI coin type, or you can pass a particular coin type argument to the type parameter as shown below:
You can also simply retrieve all coin type balances as follows:
Get Account Objects
You can also retrieve objects owned by a given account address:
Get Account Coins
Account Coins retrieval also follows the same pattern
Get Account Stakes
You can fetch stakes for an account as follows:
Resolve Account Name Service Names
Request Test Tokens
If your Sui() client is configured for testnet, you can request test tokens from a faucet as follows:
Once your account is set up, you can start performing transactions on Sui. Let's get into that in the next chapter.