You will need a Hedera Mainnet account to interact with and pay for any of the network services (cryptocurrency, consensus, tokens, files and smart contracts). Your Hedera account is what holds a balance of HBAR to be used for transfers to other accounts or payments for network services.
Create free mainnet accounts by visiting any of these wallet providers:
| Wallets | Private Key Viewable | SDK-compatible Passphrase |
|---|---|---|
| Atomic | true | false |
| Coinomi | false | true |
| Exodus (Desktop) | true | false |
| Guarda | true | false |
| Hashpack | true | true |
| Xact | true | true |
| Wallawallet | true | true |
| Blade | true | true |
| Xact | true | true |
After you receive your account ID and private keys, you can create additional mainnet accounts using the SDKs. When using the SDKs to build your Hedera client, select client.forMainnet(). A mainnet node will be picked at random to submit the transaction to.
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