Topic

Crypto address validation

The practice of checking that a blockchain address string is well-formed, belongs to the intended network and uses a supported encoding before funds are sent to it.

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Checking the encoding before the version byte keeps a wallet from naming the wrong chain

A wallet engineer's Python package splits address rejection into three typed reasons and checks encoding before network, so a mangled testnet string comes back as a bad checksum.

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