Receive your first DIVI

1What an address is

An address is a short public name for one key in your wallet. Anyone can send coins to it. Only the wallet that holds the matching private key can spend them. Your wallet makes the keys from your recovery phrase, so every address it gives you comes back when you restore that phrase.

The first letter tells you which network the address belongs to:

Those two examples are the same key written for two networks. That matters in the next section.

Make a new address for each payment you expect. It costs nothing, every one of them is covered by the same phrase, and it keeps your payments from being linked together on the public explorer. An old address still works: coins sent to it are never lost.

2Check an address before you share it

A payment sent to a wrong address cannot be pulled back. Three checks take ten seconds:

1. Copy and paste, never type it. Every wallet below has a copy button. A typed address with one wrong letter is caught by the checksum, but a pasted one has no wrong letters to catch.
2. Read the first letter yourself. D for real DIVI. If you are asking for real DIVI and the address starts with x or y, you copied a testnet address.
3. Compare the first four and last four characters with what your wallet shows, after you paste the address into the message to the sender. Some clipboard malware swaps addresses as you paste. See Avoid scams.

Both nodes have a validateaddress command, and it catches typos. We changed the case of the last letter of a real address and both nodes answered "isvalid": false. It does not always catch the wrong network:

3IronDivi node

You need the node from Install IronDivi and a wallet from Create your first wallet. If you followed Encrypt your wallet, IronDivi refuses to make an address while the wallet is locked:

$ irondivi-cli -c ~/divi-test/irondivi.conf getnewaddress
error code: -13: Wallet is locked

Unlock it for a few minutes first. The passphrase goes in on standard input, so it never appears in your shell history:

$ read -s P; printf '%s\n300\n' "$P" | irondivi-cli -c ~/divi-test/irondivi.conf --stdin walletpassphrase; unset P
$ irondivi-cli -c ~/divi-test/irondivi.conf getnewaddress
xvzMd5vNjhdYw3Z42RizxfgD1mr4DbiRyc

Check the address. "ismine": true means this wallet holds its key:

$ irondivi-cli -c ~/divi-test/irondivi.conf validateaddress xvzMd5vNjhdYw3Z42RizxfgD1mr4DbiRyc
{
  "account": "",
  "address": "xvzMd5vNjhdYw3Z42RizxfgD1mr4DbiRyc",
  "iscompressed": true,
  "ismine": true,
  "isscript": false,
  "isvalid": true,
  "iswatchonly": false,
  "pubkey": "031b99cae6202961e724902457245892c2f3010d9256feffda46b7400129f0f1ea",
  "scriptPubKey": "76a9140018d7538c988ab2a268a2697b1fbb7e15943aba88ac"
}

IronDivi 0.2.6 ignores a label: getnewaddress "first-receive" still gives "account": "". Keep a note of what each address is for in your password manager instead.

4Divi Desktop

We did not run Divi Desktop 2.0.0 for this page, so we do not describe its Receive screen. The open-source Desktop code on GitHub was last updated in 2023 and may not match the current release.

Desktop runs the C++ Divi node inside it, so the commands in section 6 also work in its debug console: getnewaddress "label" and validateaddress <address>.

5BoxWallet

BoxWallet installs and runs the C++ Divi node for you. Its README (v0.8.38, read 2026-10-22) describes a Receive panel with "Your address as text and a QR code, plus a fresh one on demand". Pick Divi in the coin list, open Receive, and copy the address. The node underneath is the same C++ node as section 6, so the same checks apply.

6C++ Divi command line

The C++ node keeps a pool of ready keys, so getnewaddress works even while the wallet is locked, and it keeps the label:

$ divi-cli -testnet getnewaddress "first-receive"
yC7cysasfRGSUNtEWtmxbcShpjoPjeaiXK
$ divi-cli -testnet validateaddress yC7cysasfRGSUNtEWtmxbcShpjoPjeaiXK
{
  "isvalid": true,
  "address": "yC7cysasfRGSUNtEWtmxbcShpjoPjeaiXK",
  "ismine": true,
  "iswatchonly": false,
  "account": "first-receive",
  "hdkeypath": "m/44'/1'/0'/0/3",
  …
}

hdkeypath shows the address was made from your phrase. Asked about the mainnet form of the same key, this node answers "isvalid": false.

7Web wallet, browser extension and Telegram

All three make keys on your own device from your phrase. The Telegram bot never holds your keys.

8Watch the coins arrive

We sent 10 tDIVI from the C++ wallet to the IronDivi address above. A payment goes through two stages:

1. Unconfirmed. The transaction is in the mempool but not in a block yet. Right after the send, IronDivi already showed it:

   $ irondivi-cli … getunconfirmedbalance
   10.0
   $ irondivi-cli … getreceivedbyaddress xvzMd5vNjhdYw3Z42RizxfgD1mr4DbiRyc 0
   10.0
   $ irondivi-cli … getreceivedbyaddress xvzMd5vNjhdYw3Z42RizxfgD1mr4DbiRyc
   0.0

   The last command counts only coins with at least one confirmation, so it says 0.0 until a block includes the payment.
2. Confirmed. The next block included it, and the explorer counted up from 1/6 to Confirmed in about four minutes. Read a transaction walks through every stage on the explorer.

The explorer's address page is the easiest place to check from anywhere: open /testnet/explorer2/address/<your address>. For our address it showed:

Balance          10.00 DIVI
Total Received   10.00 DIVI
Transaction History (1)
Confirmed  9b0cdbadb1...1182897ed1

Do not ship goods or count a large payment as done at the first confirmation. Wait for the explorer's Confirmed, which means six blocks.

Troubleshooting

error code: -13: Wallet is locked on getnewaddress. That is IronDivi with an encrypted wallet. Unlock it as in section 3. The C++ node does not need this.

The sender says the address is invalid. Check the first letter. A testnet address sent to someone paying real DIVI, or the other way round, is the usual cause. Then copy it again from the wallet.

The payment does not show up. Look the address up on the explorer. If the explorer shows it and your wallet does not, your node is still syncing; wait for getblockcount to match the explorer's latest block.

IronDivi shows my address as watch-only. The wallet was locked before its next block (section 3). Restore the wallet from your phrase in a new folder, as in Create your first wallet. The restored wallet holds the key and can spend the coins.

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