Creating And Deploying Accounts

Account is required to perform interactions with Starknet (only calls can be done without it). Starknet Foundry sncast supports entire account management flow with the sncast account create and sncast account deploy commands.

Difference between those two commands is that the first one creates account information (private key, address and more) and the second one deploys it to the network. After deployment, account can be used to interact with Starknet.

To remove an account from the accounts file, you can use sncast account delete. Please note this only removes the account information stored locally - this will not remove the account from Starknet.

💡 Info Currently, only OpenZeppelin account creation is supported.

Examples

General Example

Do the following to start interacting with the Starknet:

create account with the sncast account create command

$ sncast \
  --url http://127.0.0.1:5050 \
  account create \
  --name some-name
  
Account successfully created. Prefund generated address with at least 432300000000 tokens. It is good to send more in the case of higher demand, max_fee * 2 = 864600000000
command: account create
max_fee: 0x64a7168300
address: 0x7a949e83b243068d0cbedd8d5b8b32fafea66c54de23c40e68b126b5c845b61

You can also pass common --accounts-file argument with a path to (existing or not existing) file where you want to save account info.

For a detailed CLI description, see account create command reference.

prefund generated address with tokens

You can do it both by sending tokens from another starknet account or by bridging them with StarkGate.
deploy account with the sncast account deploy command
```
$ sncast \
  --url http://127.0.0.1:5050 \
  account deploy
  --name some-name \
  --max-fee 9999999999999

command: account deploy
transaction_hash: 0x20b20896ce63371ef015d66b4dd89bf18c5510a840b4a85a43a983caa6e2579
```
Note that you don't have to pass url, accounts-file and network parameters if add-profile flag was set in the account create command. Just pass profile argument with the account name.

For a detailed CLI description, see account deploy command reference.

`account create` With Salt Argument

Salt will not be randomly generated if it's specified with --salt.

$ sncast \
    account create \
    --name some-name \
    --salt 0x1
  
Account successfully created. Prefund generated address with at least 432300000000 tokens. It is good to send more in the case of higher demand, max_fee * 2 = 864600000000
command: account create
max_fee: 0x64a7168300
address: 0x7a949e83b243068d0cbedd8d5b8b32fafea66c54de23c40e68b126b5c845b61

`account delete`

Delete an account from accounts-file and its associated Scarb profile.

$ sncast \
    --accounts-file my-account-file.json \
    account delete \
    --name some-name \
    --network alpha-sepolia
  
Do you want to remove account some-name from network alpha-sepolia? (Y/n)
Y
command: account delete
result: Account successfully removed

For a detailed CLI description, see account delete command reference.

Custom Account Contract

By default, sncast creates/deploys an account using openzeppelin contract's class hash. It is possible to create an account using custom openzeppelin contract declared to starknet. This can be achieved with --class-hash flag:

$ sncast \
    account create \
    --name some-name \
    --class-hash 0x058d97f7d76e78f44905cc30cb65b91ea49a4b908a76703c54197bca90f81773

Account successfully created. Prefund generated address with at least 432300000000 tokens. It is good to send more in the case of higher demand, max_fee * 2 = 864600000000
command: account create
max_fee: 0x64a7168300
address: 0x7a949e83b243068d0cbedd8d5b8b32fafea66c54de23c40e68b126b5c845b61

$ sncast \
  account deploy \
  --name some-name \
  --max-fee 864600000000

command: account deploy
transaction_hash: 0x20b20896ce63371ef015d66b4dd89bf18c5510a840b4a85a43a983caa6e2579

Using Keystore and Starkli Account

Accounts created and deployed with starkli can be used by specifying the --keystore argument.

💡 Info When passing the --keystore argument, --account argument must be a path to the starkli account JSON file.

$ sncast \
    --url http://127.0.0.1:5050 \
    --keystore path/to/keystore.json \
    --account path/to/account.json  \
    declare \
    --contract-name my_contract

Importing an Account

To import an account into the file holding the accounts info (~/.starknet_accounts/starknet_open_zeppelin_accounts.json by default), use the account add command.

$ sncast \
    --url http://127.0.0.1:5050 \
    account add \
    --name my_imported_account \
    --address 0x1 \
    --private-key 0x2 \
    --class-hash 0x3 \

For a detailed CLI description, see account add command reference.

Creating an Account With Starkli-Style Keystore

It is possible to create an openzeppelin account with keystore in a similar way starkli does.

$ sncast \
    --url http://127.0.0.1:5050 \
    --keystore my_key.json \
    --account my_account.json \
    account create

The command above will generate a keystore file containing the private key, as well as an account file containing the openzeppelin account info that can later be used with starkli.

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