Send a transaction

Check your balance

You can check your balance at any time by running the following command:

ironfish wallet:balance

Your wallet must be synced with the blockchain or it will be wrong. You can ask for a balance explanation by running

ironfish wallet:balance --explain

Send a transaction

Send a transaction using your default account by running:

ironfish wallet:send

> ironfish wallet:send

Enter the amount in $IRON (balance: $IRON 200) 20 Enter the fee amount in $IRON 0.00000001 Enter the public address of the recipient: ab518b8c908d7157eaebdf8159c5813894074d3136826daba4a485598de1b86a597af2821f8400bbfe70c1 You are about to send: $IRON 20 to ab518b8c908d7157eaebdf8159c5813894074d3136826daba4a485598de1b86a597af2821f8400bbfe70c1 from the account ExampleAccount Do you confirm (Y/N)?: Y Creating the transaction: ████████████████████████████████████████ 100% Sending 20 to ab518b8c908d7157eaebdf8159c5813894074d3136826daba4a485598de1b86a597af2821f8400bbfe70c1 from MyNewAccount Transaction Hash: e032e78268a1097288503e18510e48d140292ff5ce91d0914ae00f733ad8d166 Transaction Fee: 0.00000001 Find the transaction on https://explorer.ironfish.network/transaction/ee32e78268a1097288503e18510e48d140292ff5ce91d0914ae00f733ad8d166

You can also send in non interactive mode by providing flags. Run ironfish wallet:send --help to see the different options available. See more here.

Receive a transaction

To receive a transaction, give the sender your public key by running the following command:

ironfish wallet:address

View your transactions

To view transactions from the default account

ironfish wallet:transactions

> ironfish wallet:transactions

Timestamp Status Type Hash Expiration Fee Paid ($IRON) Asset Net Amount ─────────────────────── ───────── ─────── ──────── ────────── ──────────────── ───────────── ─────────── 3/9/2023 6:08:57 PM PST confirmed send aa72c... 75076 0.00000001 $IRON (d7c86) -0.00000003 3/9/2023 2:26:48 PM PST confirmed receive a4360... 74854 $IRON (d7c86) 0.00000001

Track a transaction

Once a transaction is sent, the sender should see a transaction hash displayed.

Transaction Hash: 4f484a5355a65be2179fc66d69e149788e78aec35c6db230b182264e3982bc15

You can use the Iron Fish Block Explorer to display information about this transaction. Of course, because Iron Fish is a fully private cryptocurrency, a limited amount of information is available to the public.

For example, see the transaction above you can go here https://explorer.ironfish.network/transaction/4f484a5355a65be2179fc66d69e149788e78aec35c6db230b182264e3982bc15.

Watching the status of a transaction

You can use the command line to watch a status of a transaction for an account in your wallet

> ironfish wallet:transactions:watch 4f484a5355a65be2179fc66d69e149788e78aec35c6db230b182264e3982bc15

ironfish wallet:transaction:watch 4f484a5355a65be2179fc66d69e149788e78aec35c6db230b182264e3982bc15 Watching transaction 4f484a5355a65be2179fc66d69e149788e78aec35c6db230b182264e3982bc15 Current Status... pending -> unconfirmed: 50s Current Status... unconfirmed -> confirmed: 1m 30s Current Status... done after 2m 20s