@swyftx/api-crypto-address-validator

Simple wallet address validator for validating Bitcoin and 130 (and counting) other altcoin addresses in Node.js and browser.

Forked from ognus/wallet-address-validator which was forked from ryanralph/altcoin-address.

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File size is ~189.4 kB (minifed and gzipped - ~69.7% smaller).

Installation

Yarn

yarn add @swyftx/api-crypto-address-validator

NPM

npm install @swyftx/api-crypto-address-validator

Browser

<script src="wallet-address-validator.min.js"></script>

Minified Packed Frontend

import walletAddressValidatorMinJs from '@swyftx/api-crypto-address-validator/dist/wallet-address-validator.min.js'

API

validate (address [, currency = 'bitcoin'[, networkType = 'prod' [, addressType = ['all']]])

Parameters

• address - Wallet address to validate.
• currency - Optional. Currency name or symbol, e.g. 'bitcoin' (default), 'litecoin' or 'LTC'
• networkType - Optional. Use 'prod' (default) to enforce standard address, 'testnet' to enforce testnet address and 'both' to enforce nothing.
• addressType - Optional. Specifies what version of the address should be validated. Defaults to 'legacy', but can be changed on a per asset basis.

Returns true if the address (string) is a valid wallet address for the crypto currency specified, see below for supported currencies.

Supported crypto currencies

• 0x/zrx '0x' or 'zrx'
• Aave/lend 'Aave' or 'lend'
• AdEx/adx 'AdEx' or 'adx'
• aelf/ELF 'aelf' or 'ELF'
• Aeternity/ae 'Aeternity' or 'ae'
• Algorand/algo 'Algorand' or 'algo'
• Aragon/ant 'Aragon' or 'ant'
• Ardor/ardr 'Ardor' or 'ardr'
• Augur/rep 'Augur' or 'rep'
• AuroraCoin/aur 'AuroraCoin' or 'aur'
• Australian Dollars/aud 'Australian Dollars' or 'aud'
• Bancor/bnt 'Bancor' or 'bnt'
• Bankex/bkx 'Bankex' or 'bkx'
• BasicAttentionToken/bat 'BasicAttentionToken' or 'bat'
• BeaverCoin/bvc 'BeaverCoin' or 'bvc'
• BinanceCoin/bnb 'BinanceCoin' or 'bnb'
• BioCoin/bio 'BioCoin' or 'bio'
• Bitcoin/btc 'Bitcoin' or 'btc'
• Bitcoin Diamond/bcd 'Bitcoin Diamond' or 'bcd'
• BitcoinCash/bcc 'BitcoinCash' or 'bcc'
• BitcoinCash/bch 'BitcoinCash' or 'bch'
• BitcoinGold/btg 'BitcoinGold' or 'btg'
• BitcoinPrivate/btcp 'BitcoinPrivate' or 'btcp'
• BitcoinZ/btcz 'BitcoinZ' or 'btcz'
• Bitquence/bqx 'Bitquence' or 'bqx'
• Bitshares/bts 'Bitshares' or 'bts'
• BitTorrent/btt 'BitTorrent' or 'btt'
• Blockstack/stx 'Blockstack' or 'stx'
• Callisto/clo 'Callisto' or 'clo'
• Cardano/ada 'Cardano' or 'ada'
• Chainlink/link 'Chainlink' or 'link'
• Civic/cvc 'Civic' or 'cvc'
• Cosmos/atom 'Cosmos' or 'atom'
• Dash/dash 'Dash' or 'dash'
• Decentraland/MANA 'Decentraland' or 'MANA'
• Decred/dcr 'Decred' or 'dcr'
• Dent/dent 'Dent' or 'dent'
• DigiByte/dgb 'DigiByte' or 'dgb'
• District0x/dnt 'District0x' or 'dnt'
• DogeCoin/doge 'DogeCoin' or 'doge'
• Enigma/eng 'Enigma' or 'eng'
• Enjin Coin/enj 'Enjin Coin' or 'enj'
• EOS/eos 'EOS' or 'eos'
• Ethereum/eth 'Ethereum' or 'eth'
• EthereumClassic/etc 'EthereumClassic' or 'etc'
• EtherZero/etz 'EtherZero' or 'etz'
• ETHOS/ethos 'ETHOS' or 'ethos'
• Expanse/exp 'Expanse' or 'exp'
• FreiCoin/frc 'FreiCoin' or 'frc'
• FunFair/fun 'FunFair' or 'fun'
• GameCredits/game 'GameCredits' or 'game'
• GarliCoin/grlc 'GarliCoin' or 'grlc'
• Gnosis/gno 'Gnosis' or 'gno'
• Golem/gnt 'Golem' or 'gnt'
• Golem/gnt 'Golem' or 'gnt'
• Hedera Hashgraph/hbar 'Hedera Hashgraph' or 'hbar'
• Holo/HOT 'Holo' or 'HOT'
• Horizen/zen 'Horizen' or 'zen'
• Hush/hush 'Hush' or 'hush'
• ICON/icx 'ICON' or 'icx'
• iExec RLC/RLC 'iExec RLC' or 'RLC'
• iExec RLC/rlc 'iExec RLC' or 'rlc'
• Internet of Services/IOST 'Internet of Services' or 'IOST'
• Iota/iota 'Iota' or 'iota'
• Komodo/kmd 'Komodo' or 'kmd'
• Lisk/lsk 'Lisk' or 'lsk'
• LiteCoin/ltc 'LiteCoin' or 'ltc'
• Matchpool/gup 'Matchpool' or 'gup'
• MegaCoin/mec 'MegaCoin' or 'mec'
• Melon/mln 'Melon' or 'mln'
• Metal/mtl 'Metal' or 'mtl'
• Monacao/mco 'Monacao' or 'mco'
• MonaCoin/mona 'MonaCoin' or 'mona'
• Monero/xmr 'Monero' or 'xmr'
• NameCoin/nmc 'NameCoin' or 'nmc'
• Nano/nano 'Nano' or 'nano'
• NEM/xem 'NEM' or 'xem'
• Neo/neo 'Neo' or 'neo'
• NeoGas/gas 'NeoGas' or 'gas'
• Nexus/nxs 'Nexus' or 'nxs'
• Numeraire/nmr 'Numeraire' or 'nmr'
• Odyssey/ocn 'Odyssey' or 'ocn'
• OmiseGO/omg 'OmiseGO' or 'omg'
• Ontology/ont 'Ontology' or 'ont'
• Ontology Gas/ong 'Ontology Gas' or 'ong'
• Paxos Standard Token/pax 'Paxos Standard Token' or 'pax'
• PeerCoin/ppc 'PeerCoin' or 'ppc'
• PIVX/pivx 'PIVX' or 'pivx'
• Polymath/poly 'Polymath' or 'poly'
• Populous/ppt 'Populous' or 'ppt'
• PowerLedger/powr 'PowerLedger' or 'powr'
• PrimeCoin/xpm 'PrimeCoin' or 'xpm'
• ProtoShares/pts 'ProtoShares' or 'pts'
• Pundi X/npxs 'Pundi X' or 'npxs'
• Qtum/qtum 'Qtum' or 'qtum'
• RaiBlocks/xrb 'RaiBlocks' or 'xrb'
• Ravencoin/rvn 'Ravencoin' or 'rvn'
• RipioCreditNetwork/rcn 'RipioCreditNetwork' or 'rcn'
• Ripple/xrp 'Ripple' or 'xrp'
• Salt/salt 'Salt' or 'salt'
• Siacoin/sc 'Siacoin' or 'sc'
• SnowGem/sng 'SnowGem' or 'sng'
• SolarCoin/slr 'SolarCoin' or 'slr'
• Status/snt 'Status' or 'snt'
• STEEM/steem 'STEEM' or 'steem'
• Stellar Lumens/xlm 'Stellar Lumens' or 'xlm'
• Storj/storj 'Storj' or 'storj'
• Storm/storm 'Storm' or 'storm'
• Stratis/strat 'Stratis' or 'strat'
• Substratum/sub 'Substratum' or 'sub'
• Swarm City/swt 'Swarm City' or 'swt'
• Syscoin/sys 'Syscoin' or 'sys'
• TenX/pay 'TenX' or 'pay'
• Tether/usdt 'Tether' or 'usdt'
• Tezos/XTZ 'Tezos' or 'XTZ'
• THETA/theta 'THETA' or 'theta'
• Tron/trx 'Tron' or 'trx'
• TrueUSD/tusd 'TrueUSD' or 'tusd'
• USD Coin/usdc 'USD Coin' or 'usdc'
• VeChain/vet 'VeChain' or 'vet'
• Verge/xvg 'Verge' or 'xvg'
• VertCoin/vtc 'VertCoin' or 'vtc'
• Viberate/vib 'Viberate' or 'vib'
• VoteCoin/vot 'VoteCoin' or 'vot'
• WaltonChain/wtc 'WaltonChain' or 'wtc'
• Waves/waves 'Waves' or 'waves'
• Wings/wings 'Wings' or 'wings'
• ZCash/zec 'ZCash' or 'zec'
• ZClassic/zcl 'ZClassic' or 'zcl'
• ZenCash/zen 'ZenCash' or 'zen'
• Zilliqa/zil 'Zilliqa' or 'zil'

Usage example

Node

const WAValidator = require('@swyftx/api-crypto-address-validator')

const valid = WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck', 'BTC')

if (valid) {
  console.log('This is a valid address')
} else {
  console.log('Address INVALID')
}
// This will log 'This is a valid address' to the console.

const WAValidator = require('@swyftx/api-crypto-address-validator')

const valid = WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck', 'litecoin', 'testnet')

if (valid) {
  console.log('This is a valid address')
} else {
  console.log('Address INVALID')
}
// As this is a invalid litecoin address 'Address INVALID' will be logged to console.

Browser

<script src="wallet-address-validator.min.js"></script>

// WAValidator is exposed as a global (window.WAValidator)
const valid = WAValidator.validate('1KFzzGtDdnq5hrwxXGjwVnKzRbvf8WVxck', 'bitcoin')

if (valid) {
  alert('This is a valid address')
} else {
  alert('Address INVALID')
}
// This should show a pop up with text 'This is a valid address'.