Util RPCs#

CreateMultiSig#

The createmultisig RPC creates a P2SH multi-signature address.

Parameter #1—the number of signatures required

Name	Type	Presence	Description
Required	number (int)	Required (exactly 1)	The minimum (m) number of signatures required to spend this m-of-n multisig script

Parameter #2—the full public keys

❗️ Deprecation Warning

As of Dash Core 0.17.0, using addresses with createmultisig is unsupported. Clients must use addmultisigaddress to create multisig addresses.

Name	Type	Presence	Description
Keys	array	Required (exactly 1)	An array of strings with each string being a public key
→ Key	string	Required (1 or more)	A public key against which signatures will be checked. There must be at least as many keys as specified by the `Required` parameter, and there may be more keys

Result—P2SH address and hex-encoded redeem script

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`result`	object	Required (exactly 1)	An object describing the multisig address
→ `address`	string (base58)	Required (exactly 1)	The P2SH address for this multisig redeem script
→ `redeemScript`	string (hex)	Required (exactly 1)	The multisig redeem script encoded as hex

Example from Dash Core 0.16.0

Creating a 1-of-2 P2SH multisig address by combining two full public keys:

dash-cli -testnet createmultisig 1 '''
  [
    "03283a224c2c014d1d0ef82b00470b6b277d71e227c0e2394f9baade5d666e57d3",
    "02594523b004e82849a66b3da096b1e680bf2ed5f7d03a3443c027aa5777bb6223"
  ]
'''

Result:

{
  "address": "8jYUv8hJcbSUPbwYmzp1XMPU6SXoic3hwi",
  "redeemScript": "512103283a224c2c014d1d0ef82b00470b6b277d71e227c0e2394f9baade5d666e57d32102594523b004e82849a66b3da096b1e680bf2ed5f7d03a3443c027aa5777bb622352ae"
}

See also

AddMultiSigAddress: adds a P2SH multisig address to the wallet.
DecodeScript: decodes a hex-encoded P2SH redeem script.

DeriveAddresses#

Added in Dash Core 18.0.0

The deriveaddresses RPC derives one or more addresses corresponding to an output descriptor.

Examples of output descriptors are:

Descriptor format	Description
`pkh(<pubkey>)`	P2PKH outputs for the given pubkey
`sh(multi(<n>,<pubkey>,<pubkey>,...))`	P2SH-multisig outputs for the given threshold and pubkeys
`raw(<hex script>)`	Outputs whose scriptPubKey equals the specified hex scripts

In the above, either refers to a fixed public key in hexadecimal notation, or to an xpub/xprv optionally followed by one or more path elements separated by “/”, where “h” represents a hardened child key. For more information on output descriptors, see the documentation in the doc/descriptors.md file.

Parameter #1—the descriptor

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`descriptor`	string	Required (exactly 1)	The descriptor

Parameter #2—range

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`range`	number	Optional (0 or 1)	If a ranged descriptor is used, this specifies the end or the range (in [begin,end] notation) to derive (e.g. “[0,2]”).

Result—the derived addresses

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`result`	array	Required (exactly 1)	Array of derived addresses
→ Address	string	Required (0 or more)	The derived address(es)

Example from Dash Core 18.0.0

Analyse a descriptor:

dash-cli  deriveaddresses "pkh([8a54e0c5]0214889c34100d00aca6e7cbfe0fa72d83c28857585740bff5f3db6b37e51d9aaa)#wyvgzv2k"

Result:

[
  "yYvsn6vdnkeq9VG1JbkfqKbjv3gUmFmnny"
]

See also

GetDescriptorInfo: analyses a descriptor.
ScanTxOutset: signs a message with the private key of an address.

EstimateSmartFee#

The estimatesmartfee RPC estimates the transaction fee per kilobyte that needs to be paid for a transaction to begin confirmation within a certain number of blocks and returns the number of blocks for which the estimate is valid.

Parameter #1—how many confirmations the transaction may wait before being included

Name	Type	Presence	Description
conf_target	number (int)	Required (exactly 1)	Confirmation target in blocks (1 - 1008)

Parameter #2—estimate mode

Name	Type	Presence	Description
estimate_mode	string	Optional Default= `CONSERVATIVE`	The fee estimate mode. Whether to return a more conservative estimate which also satisfies a longer history. A conservative estimate potentially returns a higher feerate and is more likely to be sufficient for the desired target, but is not as responsive to short term drops in the prevailing fee market. Must be one of: `UNSET` (defaults to `CONSERVATIVE`) `ECONOMICAL` `CONSERVATIVE`

Result—the fee the transaction needs to pay per kilobyte

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`result`	object	Required (exactly 1)	JSON Object containing estimate information
→ `feerate`	number (Dash)	Optional (0 or 1)	The estimated fee the transaction should pay in order to be included within the specified number of blocks. If the node doesn’t have enough information to make an estimate, this field will not be returned
→ `error`	JSON array (strings)	Optional (0 or 1)	Errors encountered during processing
→ `blocks`	number	Required (exactly 1)	Block number where the estimate was found

Examples from Dash Core 0.15.0

dash-cli estimatesmartfee 6

Result:

{
  "feerate": 0.00044345,
  "blocks": 6
}

Requesting data the node can’t calculate (out of range):

dash-cli estimatesmartfee 2

Result:

{
  "errors": [
    "Insufficient data or no feerate found"
  ],
  "blocks": 2
}

See also

SetTxFee: sets the transaction fee per kilobyte paid by transactions created by this wallet.

GetDescriptorInfo#

Added in Dash Core 18.0.0

The getdescriptorinfo RPC analyses a descriptor.

Parameter #1—the descriptor

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`descriptor`	string	Required (exactly 1)	The descriptor

Result—the descriptor info

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`result`	object	Required (exactly 1)	Information about the descriptor
→ `descriptor`	string	Required (exactly 1)	The descriptor in canonical form, without private keys
→ `checksum`	string	Required (exactly 1)	The checksum for the input descriptor
→ `isrange`	bool	Required (exactly 1)	Whether the descriptor is ranged
→ `issolvable`	bool	Required (exactly 1)	Whether the descriptor is solvable
→ `hasprivatekeys`	bool	Required (exactly 1)	Whether the input descriptor contained at least one private key

Example from Dash Core 18.0.0

Analyse a descriptor:

dash-cli getdescriptorinfo "pkh([d34db33f/84h/0h/0h]0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295Ce870b07029Bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798)"

Result:

{
  "descriptor": "pkh([d34db33f/84'/0'/0']0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798)#9ffuvyvv",
  "checksum": "yrc20h56",
  "isrange": false,
  "issolvable": true,
  "hasprivatekeys": false
}

See also

ScanTxOutset: signs a message with the private key of an address.

SignMessageWithPrivKey#

Added in Dash Core 0.12.3 / Bitcoin Core 0.13.0

The signmessagewithprivkey RPC signs a message with a given private key.

Parameter #1—the private key to sign with

Name	Type	Presence	Description
Private Key	string (base58)	Required (exactly 1)	The private key to sign the message with encoded in base58check using wallet import format (WIF)

Parameter #2—the message to sign

Name	Type	Presence	Description
Message	string	Required (exactly 1)	The message to sign

Result—the message signature

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`result`	string (base64)	Required (exactly 1)	The signature of the message, encoded in base64.

Example from Dash Core 0.12.3

Sign a the message “Hello, World!” using the following private key:

dash-cli signmessagewithprivkey cNKbZBqUCjuBRSnAJWwFWxKESJ5Lw\
G4uxBSJ1UeBNBGVRupFKr6S "Hello, World!"

Result:

IBx8jxFjutPlcZcFdQPlA2n/B4yTrYhH43qYJURKRj7LWhSD0ERE/nnRLOnXi/gwULUcqfqOKqnqkSvuJjlgEvc=

See also

SignMessage: signs a message with the private key of an address.
VerifyMessage: verifies a signed message.

ValidateAddress#

The validateaddress RPC returns information about the given Dash address.

❗️

Breaking change(s) in Dash Core 18.0. See parameter and/or response information for details.

Parameter #1—a P2PKH or P2SH address

Name	Type	Presence	Description
Address	string (base58)	Required (exactly 1)	The P2PKH or P2SH address to validate encoded in base58check format

Result—information about the address

🚧 Dash Core 0.17.0 Deprecations

Parts of this command have been deprecated and moved to the getaddressinfo RPC. Clients must transition to using getaddressinfo to access this information before upgrading to v18.0. The following deprecated fields have moved to getaddressinfo and will only be shown here with -deprecatedrpc=validateaddress: ismine, iswatchonly, script, hex, pubkeys, sigsrequired, pubkey, addresses, embedded, iscompressed, account, timestamp, hdkeypath.

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`result`	object	Required (exactly 1)	Information about the address
→ `isvalid`	bool	Required (exactly 1)	Set to `true` if the address is a valid P2PKH or P2SH address; set to `false` otherwise
→ `address`	string (base58)	Optional (0 or 1)	The Dash address given as parameter
→ `scriptPubKey`	string (hex)	Optional (0 or 1)	The hex encoded scriptPubKey generated by the address
→ `isscript`	bool	Optional (0 or 1)	Set to `true` if a P2SH address; otherwise set to `false`. Only returned if the address is in the wallet
→ ~~`ismine`~~	~~bool~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~Set to `true` if the address belongs to the wallet; set to false if it does not. Only returned if wallet support enabled~~
→ ~~`iswatchonly`~~	~~bool~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~Set to `true` if the address is watch-only. Otherwise set to `false`. Only returned if address is in the wallet~~
→ ~~`script`~~	~~string~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~Only returned for P2SH addresses belonging to this wallet. This is the type of script: • `pubkey` for a P2PK script inside P2SH • `pubkeyhash` for a P2PKH script inside P2SH • `multisig` for a multisig script inside P2SH • `nonstandard` for unknown scripts~~
→ ~~`hex`~~	~~string (hex)~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~Only returned for P2SH addresses belonging to this wallet. This is the redeem script encoded as hex~~
→ ~~`addresses`~~	~~array~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~Only returned for P2SH addresses belonging to the wallet. A P2PKH addresses used in this script, or the computed P2PKH addresses of any pubkeys in this script. This array will be empty for `nonstandard` script types~~
→ → ~~Address~~	~~string~~	~~Optional (0 or more)~~	~~A P2PKH address~~
→ ~~`sigsrequired`~~	~~number (int)~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~Only returned for multisig P2SH addresses belonging to the wallet. The number of signatures required by this script~~
→ ~~`pubkey`~~	~~string (hex)~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~The public key corresponding to this address. Only returned if the address is a P2PKH address in the wallet~~
→ ~~`iscompressed`~~	~~bool~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~Set to `true` if a compressed public key or set to `false` if an uncompressed public key. Only returned if the address is a P2PKH address in the wallet~~
→ ~~`account`~~	~~string~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~The account this address belong to. May be an empty string for the default account. Only returned if the address belongs to the wallet~~
→ ~~`timestamp`~~	~~number (int)~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~The creation time of the key if available in seconds since epoch (Jan 1 1970 GMT)~~
→ ~~`hdkeypath`~~	~~string~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~The HD keypath if the key is HD and available~~
→ ~~`hdmasterkeyid`~~	~~string (hash160)~~	~~Optional (0 or 1)~~	Removed in Dash Core 0.17.0 ~~The Hash160 of the HD master public key~~

Example from Dash Core 0.17.0

Validate the following P2PKH address from the wallet:

dash-cli validateaddress yNpezfFDfoikDuT1f4iK75AiLp2YLPsGAb

Result:

{
  "isvalid": true,
  "address": "yNpezfFDfoikDuT1f4iK75AiLp2YLPsGAb",
  "scriptPubKey": "76a9141b767409bd8717b56cfcb00747811432ab1aa8a788ac",
  "isscript": false
}

Validate the following P2SH multisig address from the wallet:

dash-cli -testnet validateaddress 8uJLxDxk2gEMbidF5vT8XLS2UCgQmVcroW

Result:

{
  "isvalid": true,
  "address": "8uJLxDxk2gEMbidF5vT8XLS2UCgQmVcroW",
  "scriptPubKey": "a914a33155e490d146e656a9bac2cbee9c625ef42f0a87",
  "isscript": true
}

See also

ImportAddress: adds an address or pubkey script to the wallet without the associated private key, allowing you to watch for transactions affecting that address or pubkey script without being able to spend any of its outputs.
GetNewAddress: returns a new Dash address for receiving payments. If an account is specified, payments received with the address will be credited to that account.
GetAddressInfo: returns information about the given Dash address.

VerifyMessage#

The verifymessage RPC verifies a signed message.

Parameter #1—the address corresponding to the signing key

Name	Type	Presence	Description
Address	string (base58)	Required (exactly 1)	The P2PKH address corresponding to the private key which made the signature. A P2PKH address is a hash of the public key corresponding to the private key which made the signature. When the ECDSA signature is checked, up to four possible ECDSA public keys will be reconstructed from from the signature; each key will be hashed and compared against the P2PKH address provided to see if any of them match. If there are no matches, signature validation will fail

Parameter #2—the signature

Name	Type	Presence	Description
Signature	string (base64)	Required (exactly 1)	The signature created by the signer encoded as base-64 (the format output by the `signmessage` RPC)

Parameter #3—the message

Name	Type	Presence	Description
Message	string	Required (exactly 1)	The message exactly as it was signed (e.g. no extra whitespace)

Result: true, false, or an error

Name	Type	Presence	Description
`result`	boolean	Required (exactly 1)	Set to `true` if the message was signed by a key corresponding to the provided P2PKH address; set to `false` if it was not signed by that key; set to JSON `null` if an error occurred

Example from Dash Core 0.12.2

Check the signature on the message created in the example for signmessage:

dash-cli -testnet verifymessage \
  yNpezfFDfoikDuT1f4iK75AiLp2YLPsGAb \
  H4XULzfHCf16In2ECk9Ta9QxQPq639zQto2JA3OLlo3JbUdrClvJ89+A1z+Z9POd6l8LJhn1jGpQYF8mX4jkQvE= \
  'Hello, World!'

Result:

true

See also

SignMessage: signs a message with the private key of an address.