Create a custom Solana wallet address in your browser

What is a Solana vanity address?

A Solana address is the base58 encoding of a 32-byte Ed25519 public key, usually 44 characters long. The public key is derived from a randomly chosen secret key, so an address is effectively random and you cannot pick one. A vanity address is an ordinary address that happens to begin or end with text you wanted, such as a project name. The only way to get one is to generate keypairs over and over until the result matches.

Nothing about a vanity address is special on chain. It holds SOL and tokens, signs transactions and works in every wallet exactly like any other keypair, and creating it costs no SOL because an address does not exist on chain until something is sent to it. Projects use them for token mints, treasury and program addresses that are easy to recognise. One caution: a recognisable prefix makes an address easier to spot, but people should still verify the whole address, since an attacker can grind a lookalike with the same first and last characters.

How long does it take to find a vanity address?

Each character you fix multiplies the work by 58, the size of the base58 alphabet. One character takes about 58 attempts on average, three take about 195,000, four about 11 million, five about 656 million and six about 38 billion. A browser on a modern laptop tests tens of thousands of keys per second across its cores, so three or four characters take seconds to minutes, five can take hours, and six or more is not realistic in a browser.

Ignoring capitalisation helps a great deal: every letter that exists in both upper and lower case doubles the odds, so a four-letter prefix becomes up to sixteen times faster. The estimate in the tool also corrects for a detail most calculators skip. Because a 32-byte number does not fill the 44-character base58 range, the first character is not uniform: most addresses start with a digit or a capital letter from A to H, and an address starting with a lowercase letter is several times rarer than 1 in 58. Suffixes are uniform.

The search is a lottery rather than a countdown. The expected number of attempts is an average: roughly 63 percent of searches finish within it, and about one in twenty takes three times as long. Every attempt is independent of the last, so progress does not accumulate: a search that has already run for an hour is no closer than one that just began, and stopping and restarting loses nothing.

Is an online vanity address generator safe?

The risk with any vanity service is simple: whoever generates the key knows the key. A generator that runs on a server could keep a copy of every secret it hands out and empty the wallets later. This tool generates keys inside your browser using Web Workers. Randomness comes from the platform's cryptographic random number generator, the same source wallets use, and the worker code makes no network requests, so the secret key is never transmitted to SOLTidy or anyone else. Before a result is shown, the page re-derives the public key from the secret and checks that it matches.

That said, a browser is not a hardware wallet. A malicious browser extension, clipboard-reading malware or a compromised device can see what a web page displays. The sensible use for a browser-generated vanity key is branding and hot wallets: a mint address, a project wallet with working funds, a tipping address. For extra caution, load the page, disconnect from the internet, generate, save the key and close the tab before reconnecting. Do not use it as the long-term store for significant funds; a hardware wallet is the right tool for that, and hardware wallets cannot import external keys by design.

The command-line alternative: solana-keygen grind

The Solana CLI ships with the same capability. Running solana-keygen grind --starts-with abc:1 searches for one keypair whose address starts with abc and writes it to a JSON file named after the address. The options --ends-with and --starts-and-ends-with work the same way, --ignore-case relaxes capitalisation, and --num-threads controls how many cores are used. Native code is considerably faster than a browser, so for five characters or more the CLI on a desktop machine is the practical choice.

This page is the solana-keygen grind experience without an install: useful when you are on a machine without the toolchain, or want a short prefix in a minute. The output is compatible both ways. The downloaded file is the same 64-byte JSON array the CLI produces, so solana address -k file.json prints the address and solana config set --keypair file.json makes it your default signer.

How to import a vanity keypair into a wallet

Phantom, Solflare and Backpack all have an import private key option in their add-account menu, which accepts the base58 secret key — use the Copy base58 button. The Solana CLI and most developer tooling expect the JSON byte array instead, which is what the download button saves. Both are the same 64 bytes in different encodings: the 32-byte secret seed followed by the 32-byte public key.

A generated keypair has no seed phrase. Seed phrases derive keys through a fixed path, which is the opposite of searching for a random key that matches a pattern, so the secret key itself is your only backup. Keep it in a password manager or offline, clear your clipboard after pasting, and never paste it into a website or send it to anyone. If it is lost, the address and everything in it is unrecoverable; if it leaks, move funds to a new address immediately.