Derive principal addresses between networks

Description

Convert addresses between mainnet and testnet by extracting and reconstructing with different version bytes

Use Cases

  • Cross-network address verification

  • Building multi-network dApps

  • Address validation tools

  • Network migration utilities

Key Concepts

  • Version byte - Indicates network and address type

  • Hash bytes - 20-byte hash of the public key

  • Checksum - Built into the c32 encoding

  • Version bytes: 0x16 (Mainnet SP), 0x17 (Mainnet SM), 0x1a (Testnet ST), 0x1b (Testnet SN)

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