Company Wallets quickstart

Get from zero to a signed transaction with Turnkey’s Company Wallets. Initialize the server SDK, create a wallet, and sign your first Ethereum transaction using Viem or Ethers.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes you’ve completed the steps to create an account, organization, and API keypair as described in the account setup section. This guide uses the TypeScript server SDK (@turnkey/sdk-server). For other languages, see Server SDKs.

Installation

Install the server SDK and your preferred Ethereum library:

Viem

npm install @turnkey/sdk-server @turnkey/viem viem

npm install @turnkey/sdk-server @turnkey/ethers ethers

This quickstart uses Ethereum, but Turnkey supports all EVM and SVM chains, along with Bitcoin, Tron, and more. To sign Solana transactions, derive a Solana address using ADDRESS_FORMAT_SOLANA with CURVE_ED25519 and use @turnkey/solana or the server SDK’s solSendTransaction method.

Sign your first transaction

1. Initialize the Turnkey client

   Add your API credentials to a .env file:

   TURNKEY_ORGANIZATION_ID=<your-organization-id>
   TURNKEY_API_PRIVATE_KEY=<your-api-private-key>
   TURNKEY_API_PUBLIC_KEY=<your-api-public-key>
   

   Then initialize the client in your application:

   import { Turnkey } from "@turnkey/sdk-server";
   
   const turnkeyClient = new Turnkey({
     apiBaseUrl: "https://api.turnkey.com",
     defaultOrganizationId: process.env.TURNKEY_ORGANIZATION_ID!,
     apiPrivateKey: process.env.TURNKEY_API_PRIVATE_KEY!,
     apiPublicKey: process.env.TURNKEY_API_PUBLIC_KEY!,
   });
   
2. Create a wallet

   Create a wallet and derive an Ethereum address in a single call:

   const { walletId, addresses } = await turnkeyClient.apiClient().createWallet({
     walletName: "default",
     accounts: [
       {
         curve: "CURVE_SECP256K1",
         pathFormat: "PATH_FORMAT_BIP32",
         path: "m/44'/60'/0'/0/0",
         addressFormat: "ADDRESS_FORMAT_ETHEREUM",
       },
     ],
   });
   
   const ethereumAddress = addresses[0];
   console.log("Ethereum address:", ethereumAddress);
   
3. Initialize a wallet signer

   Viem

   import { createAccount } from "@turnkey/viem";
   import { createWalletClient, http } from "viem";
   import { mainnet } from "viem/chains";
   
   const turnkeyAccount = await createAccount({
   client: turnkeyClient.apiClient(),
   organizationId: process.env.TURNKEY_ORGANIZATION_ID!,
   signWith: ethereumAddress,
   });
   
   const walletClient = createWalletClient({
   account: turnkeyAccount,
   chain: mainnet,
   transport: http(),
   });
   
   

   Ethers

   import { ethers } from "ethers";
   import { TurnkeySigner } from "@turnkey/ethers";
   
   const provider = new ethers.JsonRpcProvider("YOUR_RPC_URL");
   const turnkeySigner = new TurnkeySigner({
     client: turnkeyClient.apiClient(),
     organizationId: process.env.TURNKEY_ORGANIZATION_ID!,
     signWith: ethereumAddress,
   });
   const connectedSigner = turnkeySigner.connect(provider);
   
4. Send a transaction

   Viem

   import { parseEther } from "viem";
   
   const txHash = await walletClient.sendTransaction({
   to: "<destination address>",
   value: parseEther("<amount to send>"),
   });
   console.log("Transaction hash:", txHash);
   
   

   Ethers

   const txHash = await connectedSigner.sendTransaction({
     to: "<destination address>",
     value: ethers.parseEther("<amount to send>"),
     type: 2,
   });
   console.log("Transaction hash:", txHash.hash);
   

Next steps