Home > Today’s Crypto News
bitcoin
bitcoin

$105376.947920 USD

3.29%

ethereum
ethereum

$3307.450676 USD

2.02%

xrp
xrp

$3.166034 USD

3.66%

tether
tether

$0.999996 USD

0.13%

solana
solana

$256.011142 USD

8.15%

bnb
bnb

$698.345581 USD

2.71%

dogecoin
dogecoin

$0.366785 USD

7.39%

usd-coin
usd-coin

$1.000137 USD

0.01%

cardano
cardano

$0.997491 USD

2.46%

tron
tron

$0.251575 USD

5.52%

chainlink
chainlink

$25.988166 USD

7.81%

avalanche
avalanche

$36.908167 USD

5.09%

sui
sui

$4.613995 USD

7.12%

stellar
stellar

$0.433275 USD

0.14%

toncoin
toncoin

$5.216493 USD

5.40%

Address

What Is a Crypto Address?

A crypto address is a unique string of characters that represents a wallet that can send and receive cryptocurrency. It is akin to a real-life address, email or website. Every address is unique and denotes the location of a wallet on the blockchain.

Most blockchain addresses are difficult for humans to read, as they take the form of long random strings of letters and numbers. 

Blockchain addresses are public and you can utilize a blockchain explorer to see the transactions in and out of an address. You can also see the amount of assets that the address has. The only exception is the privacy-based blockchains (eg. Monero).

Even though addresses are public, most of the addresses are anonymous (or rather, pseudonymous) as the person owning the address does not usually have their real name associated with it. However, there are cases where addresses and the person or entity behind them are known: this is usually the case for exchanges and token project owners or founders.