Getting Started with Developer-Controlled Wallets - Python

Use the Python SDK to interact with Circle's Developer-Controlled Wallet APIs, which allow you to embed secure wallets in your applications and create blockchain transactions using the Developer Services platform.

This page provides short examples of how to install and use the Developer-Controlled Wallets SDK. For complete examples, see the Sample Projects page. For more information see the Developer-Controlled Wallets documentation.

• Have Python installed.
• Have an active Circle Developer Account.
• Generate an API key to use in requests to the Circle API.
• Generate an entity secret to use in requests with the Developer-Controlled Wallets SDK.

Although not a requirement for using the SDK, Circle recommends that you use a virtual environment for development. A Python virtual environment is an isolated environment that you can use to silo your project from the global Python environment.

Use the following command to install the SDK with pip:

pip install circle-developer-controlled-wallets

To start using the SDK, you first need to configure a client and initialize it with your API key and entity secret.

The following example shows how to import the client and configure it to use your API key and entity secret:

from circle.web3 import utils

client = utils.init_developer_controlled_wallets_client(
  api_key="Your API KEY",
  entity_secret="Your entity secret"
)

The following example shows how to create a wallet using the client:

from circle.web3 import developer_controlled_wallets

api_instance = developer_controlled_wallets.WalletSetsApi(client)

# create wallet sets
try:
    request = developer_controlled_wallets.CreateWalletSetRequest.from_dict({
        "name": "my_wallet_set"
    })
    api_instance.create_wallet_set(request)
except developer_controlled_wallets.ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling WalletSetsApi->create_wallet_set: %s\n" % e)

# get wallet sets
try:
    response = api_instance.get_wallet_sets()
    for wallet_set in response.data.wallet_sets:
        print(wallet_set.actual_instance.id)
except developer_controlled_wallets.ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling WalletSetsApi->get_wallet_sets: %s\n" % e)

The client for the Developer-Controlled Wallets SDK accepts the following configuration parameters: