How To Create An Account

Goal

Register an account in the system and delegate staked tokens to it so that this account can perform transactions.

Before you begin

• Install the currently supported version of cleos.

• Understand the following:

  • What is an account;

  • What is a public and private key pair.

• Created an Owner and an Active key pair.

• Imported a key pair which can authorize on behalf of a creator account.

Steps

User alice creates the bob account name and transfers to him 100 CYBER tokens:

$ cleos system newaccount alice bob "100.0000 CYBER"

If the --transfer flag is added to command line then staked tokens will irrevocably be transferred to created account:

$ cleos system newaccount alice bob "100.0000 CYBER" --transfer