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Accounts

Create an account

https://www.stellar.org/laboratory/#account-creator This is a web tool that allows you to create and fund accounts. It will also allow you to fund that account on the testnet.

Click to Generate keypair:

./img/generate-keypairs.png

An account is just a public/private keypair, like so:

./img/account.png

Account access is controlled by public/private key cryptography. For an account to perform a transaction–e.g., make a payment–the transaction must be signed by the private key that corresponds to that account’s public key.

Friendbot: fund a test network account

Make sure that you have “test” selected in the upper right. This is critical!

./img/network-options.png

Then fund it, like so:

./img/friendbot.png

Check balances of an account

Go to Endpoint Explorer

./img/endpoint_balance.png

./img/endpoint_balance_result.png