Getting started
What is Divi?
Divi in five minutes: proof of stake, where new DIVI comes from, the weekly lottery, staking vaults, and how to hold and use the coin.
Which wallet should I use?
Seven ways to hold DIVI, what each one can do today, and which to pick for holding, staking, dApps or Telegram.
Create your first wallet
Create a Divi wallet in IronDivi, the web wallet, the extension, Telegram, Divi Desktop, BoxWallet and the C++ node, and save the recovery phrase in a password manager.
Encrypt your wallet
Put a passphrase on your Divi wallet file in IronDivi, Divi Desktop, BoxWallet and the C++ node, with real outputs, and see how the web, extension and Telegram wallets lock. Do it before your first backup.
Back up your wallet
Your recovery phrase is the backup. Why extra wallet.dat copies are a risk, the two cases where you still need one, and how to make that copy of an encrypted wallet into your password manager.
Receive your first DIVI
Make a receiving address in IronDivi, Divi Desktop, BoxWallet and the light wallets, check it before you share it, and watch the payment confirm.
Send DIVI
Send DIVI from every Divi wallet: check the address, see the fee, send a small test first, and avoid amounts the network refuses.
Read a transaction
Read any Divi transaction in Explorer 2.0: the Unconfirmed, 1/6 and Confirmed badge, inputs, outputs, change, the fee, block rewards and the address page.
Avoid scams
The scams that target Divi holders: fake support accounts, “validate your wallet” sites, giveaways, fake wallets and guaranteed returns, and the one rule that beats them all.
Divi Glossary
Plain-language definitions of every word you meet in a Divi wallet or explorer: address, recovery phrase, passphrase, UTXO, confirmation, staking, lottery, vault and more.
Buying DIVI and the community
Where to Buy DIVI
Where DIVI actually trades today, how to tell a real listing from a dead or fake one, and what the ERC-20 DIVI token on Ethereum is.
Buy DIVI on an Exchange
What buying DIVI on an exchange involves, read from the public market page without an account: the order book, the real cost of a market order at four sizes, the 0.2% fee, how USDT gets there, and what to do the moment the coins arrive.
Withdraw DIVI to Your Wallet
Move DIVI from an exchange to a wallet you control: get a receive address, send a small test first, fill in the withdrawal form, watch the coins arrive in Explorer 2.0, and what to do if they do not.
Join the Official Divi Telegram
How to find and join the real Divi Telegram group and announcement channel, tell them from look-alikes, and stay safe once you are in.
Official Divi Links
Every official Divi link in one place, each one checked live on 2026-10-21, plus the old links that no longer work and how to confirm a link yourself.
DIVI Price and Market Cap
What DIVI's price, market cap, supply and volume mean, where to read them, why the trackers disagree, and the one site that shows the wrong DIVI.
DIVI in Your Currency
See a DIVI balance or a staking reward in dollars, euros or pounds, record the day's price for your tax file, and check the currency columns on this site against a price tracker before you trust them.
Ask the Divi Chatbot
How to use the Divi Assistant on this site: where it is, what it answers well, how to read its sources line, the one-question-a-minute limit, and five real questions with what came back and how right it was.
Get Help Safely
Where to ask a Divi question, how to write one that gets answered, what is safe to share (txid, address, version, log lines) and what never is (recovery phrase, private keys, wallet files, config files).
Announcements and Upgrades
Where Divi announcements and new wallet versions are posted, how to get told automatically, how to check which version you run and whether you are on the right chain, and how to upgrade a node without touching your wallet.
Block explorers
A Tour of the Divi Explorers
Explorer 2.0 for mainnet and testnet, the classic explorer, and chainz: what each Divi block explorer shows, how to read it, and when to use which.
Look Up Any Divi Address
Paste an address into Explorer 2.0 and read its balance, history and staking figures, then check it on chainz.
Export an Address History
Every transaction of a Divi address as a file: the explorer's CSV button, a CSV link with prices, a CoinTracker import or an OFX statement.
Read a Block
Open any Divi block in Explorer 2.0 and understand every line: height, hash, time, size, difficulty, confirmations, the coinbase and the coinstake.
Find the Lottery Winners
Find Divi's weekly lottery block, read the eleven winners off its coinstake, list the current candidates with getlotteryblockwinners, and learn how the draw works.
Explorer 2.0 and chainz, Side by Side
What Divi's two public block explorers each show, why their balances can differ (staking vaults), and which one to open for which question.
Watch New Blocks Live
Open the Divi ZMQ viewer, read each block and transaction card as it arrives, filter and pause the feed, and check a block against the explorer.
Use the Explorer over Tor
Open Divi's Explorer 2.0 through Tor Browser, on the Divi .onion address, and how to send curl and scripts through Tor.
Query the Chain Yourself
Fetch block, address and network data from Divi mainnet with curl: the RPC service behind Explorer 2.0, the classic explorer API and chainz, with real replies.
A Walk Through the RPC Playground
Ask a Divi node questions by clicking: pick a method, send a request, read the answer, then copy it as curl, Python or JavaScript.
Staking
How Divi Staking Works
What staking is, who gets to make the next block, what a stake pays today, and how often you can expect one.
Stake in a Wallet
Turn staking on in IronDivi, Divi Desktop or BoxWallet, unlock an encrypted wallet safely, and read the status line.
Stake from the Command Line
Unlock an encrypted wallet for staking only and read getstakingstatus line by line, on the Divi node and on IronDivi.
Why isn't my wallet staking?
Seven checks in the order they usually turn out to be the cause, with the exact wallet message and the fix for each, and how long a stake should take.
Split and combine coins
The Divi node's split and auto-combine rules from source, how to change them, and how to cut a balance into staking-sized coins by hand, shown on testnet.
Estimate your stakes
How often a wallet your size should stake, from the explorer's Staking Intelligence tab, the sum by hand, and the Stake Watch bot's /check, with the slow and overdue thresholds explained.
Stake on a VPS
Run IronDivi or the Divi node as a service on a rented Linux server: vault or wallet route, server size, a divi user, ufw, systemd units, unlocking after restarts, crash recovery, and what we could not test.
Stake on a Raspberry Pi
Pick the right IronDivi or Divi node download for your Raspberry Pi, run it as a service, and see what we could and could not test without a Pi.
Stake alerts in Telegram
Get a Telegram message from the Stake Watch bot for every stake and lottery win on your Divi address, and a warning when stakes stop.
Track your staking returns in a spreadsheet
Export a Divi address history from Explorer 2.0 as CSV, load it into a free Google Sheets template, and see your staking rewards, yield and projected future balance.
Staking rewards and taxes
Download a year of Divi staking rewards as a CSV or OFX file valued in dollars or euros, spot the reward and lottery rows, and find what your tax office says. Not tax advice.
The Divi lottery
Who gets a lottery ticket, how the weekly winners are picked, how a win shows in your wallet, and a real draw replayed from the chain.
Vaults
What a Vault Is
The owner key, the manager key, and how Divi lets someone stake your coins without ever being able to spend them.
Create a Vault
Pick an owner address, get a manager address, build the owner:manager encoding, and fund it. Why addvault is the manager's step, not yours.
Fund a Vault
Fundvault with IronDivi, divi-cli, the Divi Desktop debug console and BoxWallet: the plain form, manager-only form, JSON with repetitions, and what each error means.
Decompose a Vault
Take a vault encoding, funding transaction or script hex apart: which address owns it, which manages it, and whether either key is in your wallet.
Add a Vault to the Manager's Wallet
The manager side: addvault with IronDivi, divi-cli (vault=1 first), the Divi Desktop debug console and BoxWallet, and how to confirm the coins are staking.
Take Your Coins Back: reclaimvaultfunds
The owner pulls coins out of a vault with IronDivi, divi-cli, the Divi Desktop debug console and BoxWallet, including receiver_pays, sweep_funds and metadata, and the IronDivi owner-wallet limitation.
Spend From a Named Vault: debitvaultbyname
Pay from one vault and keep the change staking in it. divi-cli, the Divi Desktop debug console and BoxWallet, and why IronDivi refuses this command today.
Remove a Vault From the Manager's Wallet
Removevault forgets a vault in the staking wallet and touches nothing on the chain. IronDivi, divi-cli, the Divi Desktop debug console and BoxWallet, plus how to undo it.
Vault Errors: Every Message and Its Fix
Each vault command's error messages on IronDivi and Divi Core, produced on testnet, with the cause and the fix, plus the silent failures that print no error at all.
Vault Security: What a Manager Can and Cannot Do
The vault script explained, and the proof: two manager wallets ordered to take the owner's coins, every attempt refused. What the owner must protect, and how to test a manager before trusting them.
Run a Vault Staking Service
Stake other people's coins without ever holding their keys: node setup for IronDivi and Divi Core, one address per client, onboarding, monitoring, fees, and the limits you must tell clients about.
Move a Vault to a New Manager
Sweep the old vault, fund a new one with the new manager's address, and have them add it: the exact steps run on testnet with Divi Core and IronDivi, the fees, and the coin-age cost.
Running a node
The easy way: a Divi node with BoxWallet
Install BoxWallet, let it download and start the Divi node, watch it sync, back up the recovery phrase, and use the receive, send and settings tabs.
Install IronDivi
Download IronDivi v0.2.5 for Linux or Mac (or build it from source), start it on Divi testnet, save the recovery phrase, and check that it is syncing.
A tour of irondivi-cli
Every question you can ask a running IronDivi node with irondivi-cli: network, chain, wallet, transactions, staking, signing, help and errors. Real testnet answers.
IronDivi vs the C++ node
The two Divi node programs compared side by side: files, ports, options, commands, answers, memory, disk and sync time, and which one to run.
Install the Divi node
Download the original Divi node (C++ v3.0.0), run it on Divi testnet and check that it is talking to the network. Linux, Mac and Windows.
Config files explained
Every line of divi.conf and irondivi.conf explained: format, defaults, what IronDivi ignores, and the traps that make a node ignore your file.
Get the chain faster
How long a Divi node takes to sync, why the public snapshot has no checksum, and how to copy and check the chain from your own divid 3.0.0 or IronDivi node, tested on testnet.
Run your node as a service
A systemd service file for IronDivi or the original Divi node so it starts at boot, stops cleanly and restarts after a crash, with what a crash really does to each node.
Run a node in Docker
Build a Docker image for IronDivi or the original Divi node from the official release file with a checked fingerprint, and run a testnet node that keeps its data, restarts after a crash and keeps its command port private.
Upgrade a node
Upgrade IronDivi without losing your wallet or chain: check the release, stop the node, back up the wallet, swap the programs, check the result, and go back if you need to.
Recover a chain
Repair a Divi node after a crash: save the wallet, -recoverblockdb, -forcestart and -reindex for divid 3.0.0, and a clean resync for IronDivi, all tested on testnet.
Run a node over Tor
Send a Divi node through Tor and give it an onion address, tested on testnet with divid 3.0.0 and Tor 0.4.9.
Testnet and developers
Get Testnet DIVI
Run a Divi testnet node with divid or IronDivi, make a testnet address, get free testnet DIVI from the faucet, and send it back when you are done.
Testnet in the Wallets
Use Divi testnet in the IronDivi Web Wallet, the IronDivi browser extension (preview) and the IronDivi Telegram wallet: switch network, get faucet coins with /faucet, and see which RPC, paths and faucet calls each wallet uses.
Talk to a Divi Node from Python and JavaScript
Turn on JSON-RPC on a divid or IronDivi node, call it with curl, Python and Node.js, use the public read-only testnet endpoint, send batches, and handle errors from both node types.
React to New Blocks and Transactions with ZMQ
Turn on the Divi node's ZeroMQ publisher, subscribe from Python or JavaScript, read the three-frame messages, and act on every new block and transaction.
Accept DIVI Payments on Your Website
Give every invoice its own Divi address, watch for the payment with your node's wallet RPC, the public address index or ZMQ, and decide how many confirmations to wait for. Proven on testnet.
The Browser Extension API (preview)
How a web page talks to the IronDivi browser extension through window.irondivi: detect it, connect, read the balance, sign a message and verify it, send a testnet transaction, sign a raw transaction. A preview read from the source; the extension is not installable yet.
Prove You Own an Address: Sign and Verify a Message
Prove you own a Divi address by signing a message with signmessage in IronDivi or divid, and check any signature with verifymessage, including on the public testnet RPC.
Raw Transactions and Multisig
Build, sign and broadcast a Divi transaction by hand with createrawtransaction, signrawtransaction and sendrawtransaction, then make a 2-of-2 multisig address, fund it and spend it with two signatures. Every step run on testnet.
Regtest: your own private Divi chain
What Regtest Is
What a Divi regtest chain is, how it differs from testnet and mainnet (ports, folders, rewards, maturity, who makes blocks), and when to use each.
Start a Regtest Node
Run a private Divi regtest node: write divi.conf, start divid, make your first 100 blocks with setgenerate, send yourself a payment, and stop or reset the chain.
Two Regtest Nodes on One Computer
Run C++ Divi and IronDivi together on a private regtest chain: C++ makes the blocks, IronDivi follows, and payments travel both ways between them.
Give Yourself Coins on Regtest
Where regtest coins come from, when a block reward matures, what changes after block 100 (staked blocks, treasury and lottery), and how to put exact amounts on test addresses.
Vaults on Regtest
Owner and manager nodes on a private Divi chain: fund a vault, watch the manager stake it, then debit, reclaim and remove it, with every command and its real output.
A Chain You Can Rebuild
A script that builds the same regtest chain in five seconds, what changes between runs and what does not, and how to snapshot a chain so it comes back byte for byte.
Test Your App on Regtest
Talk to a Divi regtest node from curl, Python and JavaScript, confirm or hold back payments on demand, test every error path, and react to new blocks and payments.
Atomic Swaps on Regtest
Run the Divi half of an atomic swap on your own regtest chain: lock coins in hash time-locked contracts, claim with the secret, watch early refunds fail and the real refund work, and see what a full two-chain swap still needs.
Games and sidechains
What a Divi Sidechain Is
How the Divi Games gamechain works: one sequencer, accounts that are Divi addresses, moves that are Divi signed messages, a Divi checkpoint in every block, anchors written to Divi testnet, and the bridge and HTLC paths for value. Every claim checked against the live chain.
Run the Gamechain on Your Own Computer
Build divi-gamechain from source, make a sequencer key, write the config, run a gamechain of your own against Divi testnet, claim GOLD from its faucet with the SDK, replay it, and restart it. Every command run for real.
Sign in with your Divi address
How Divi Games knows it is you without a password: your account is a Divi address, every action is a signed message, and the node verifies it by recovering your public key. With real signatures, a real transaction and the real error messages.
Build Tic-Tac-Toe
Build a game module for the Divi gamechain, step by step: the GameModule trait, state keys, the real tic-tac-toe code for create, join, move, cancel and claim_timeout, its tests, and a full game played on the live testnet with the SDK.
Build Blackjack: Fair Cards from a Committed Hash Chain
How the Divi Games blackjack module deals cards nobody can predict or choose: a committed hash chain, the exact card formula, the ops, state and payouts, two real hands on the live testnet, and a Node script that recomputes every card.
Build Tower Defense
A Divi gamechain game the node replays to check your score: the deterministic dg-td simulation, its plain extern C wasm boundary, the wasm rebuilt and hashed, the golden-vector test, the towerdefense module, and a real run started, played from Node and submitted on the live testnet.
The Trading Game
How the Divi Games order book works, what a trading season is, and how to write a bot for it: prices, escrow, matching, the limits, seasons, the house market-maker, all run for real on a gamechain node.
The JavaScript SDK: put a game on your own page
Every export of divigames.js, how the vendored dependencies are laid out, how to put the SDK on your own page, and a complete minimal page that makes a guest key, claims GOLD and opens a tic-tac-toe table on the live Divi gamechain.
Anchors and the tDIVI Bridge
How the Divi gamechain writes its block hash and state root into Divi testnet every N blocks, how to decode and check an anchor, and how testnet DIVI crosses the custodial bridge in both directions. Every command run for real on a gamechain node.
Deploy Your Game
Put the Divi gamechain and the games site on your own test host as two hardened systemd services behind nginx, with deploy/deploy.sh from the divi-games repo. Every command run for real, twice.
Keeping your DIVI safe
Cold Storage and a Paper Wallet
Keep DIVI offline on a BIP38 paper wallet with bip38paperwallet, store the paper and its passphrase safely, bring the coins back with bip38decrypt, and keep an encrypted wallet backup next to your recovery phrase.
Inheritance: Make Sure Your Family Can Get to Your DIVI
Put your DIVI recovery phrase, wallet passphrase and encrypted backup in one password-manager entry, turn on emergency access (Proton Pass, Bitwarden, Keeper, 1Password, Dashlane, Apple), write the letter, and rehearse the recovery on testnet.
Harden a Staking Server: Firewall, SSH Keys and Automatic Updates
Lock down a Divi staking server with ufw, key-only SSH in a drop-in sshd config, unattended-upgrades, RPC kept on localhost and a staking-only wallet unlock, each step tested from a second terminal before the next.
Rescue a Wallet: a Forgotten Passphrase, an Old wallet.dat, a Missing Balance
Step-by-step tutorial, tested on testnet: open an old Divi wallet.dat in Divi Core 3.0.0, test your own passphrase guesses, recover from a damaged wallet file using the automatic backups, the phrase or a Berkeley DB salvage, find a missing balance, and move old keys into IronDivi.
A Yearly Checkup for Your DIVI
A once-a-year checklist for DIVI holders. Check wallet software versions, backups and the recovery phrase, test the wallet passphrase safely, review your password-manager entry and paper wallets, confirm vault managers are still staking, and save the year's tax export.
Masternodes on Divi: What They Were
History, not a setup guide: what Divi masternodes were, their five collateral tiers and 405 DIVI block share, why Divi 3.0 ended them in August 2023, and how to unlock old masternode collateral so it can stake.
New tutorials are added as each one is tested. Questions in the meantime? Try the Divi chatbot.