[2. Creating keys and addresses] #cardano #stakepooloperations

2.1. Payment key pair

#To generate a payment key pair

cardano-cli address key-gen \
--verification-key-file payment.vkey \
--signing-key-file payment.skey

2.3. Stake key pair

# To generate a stake key pair

cardano-cli stake-address key-gen \
--verification-key-file stake.vkey \
--signing-key-file stake.skey

2.4. Payment address

# When including both verification keys payment.vkey and stake.vkey to build the address, 
# the resulting payment address is associated with this stake keys and address.

cardano-cli address build \
--payment-verification-key-file payment.vkey \
--stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
--out-file payment.addr \
--mainnet

# --testnet-magic 1097911063

2.5. Stake address

# To generate a stake address

cardano-cli stake-address build \
--stake-verification-key-file stake.vkey \
--out-file stake.addr \
--mainnet

# --testnet-magic 1097911063
# This address CAN’T receive payments but will receive the rewards from participating in the protocol. 

2.6. Query the balance of an address

# To query the balance of an address we need a running node and the environment variable 
# CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH set to the path to the node.socket

cardano-cli query utxo \
--address $(cat payment.addr) \
--mainnet

# --testnet-magic 1097911063