recoverTransactionAddress

Recovers the original signing address from a transaction & signature.

Usage

example.ts

import { recoverTransactionAddress } from 'viem'
import { walletClient } from './client'
 
const request = await walletClient.prepareTransactionRequest({
  to: '0x70997970c51812dc3a010c7d01b50e0d17dc79c8',
  value: 1000000000000000000n
})
 
const serializedTransaction = await walletClient.signTransaction(request)
 
const address = await recoverTransactionAddress({ 
  serializedTransaction,
})

Returns

Address

The signing address.

Parameters

serializedTransaction

Type: TransactionSerialized

The RLP serialized transaction.

signature (optional)

Type: Signature | Hex | ByteArray
Default: Signature inferred on serializedTransaction (if exists)

The signature.