44hintoFpuo3ugKfcqJvh5BmrsTRpnTasJmetKC4VXCt6QDtbHVuixdTtsm6Ptp7Y8haXnJ6j8Gj2dra8CKy5ewz7Vi9CYW

• Comparison
• Estimate
• GUI Usage
• CLI Usage
• Install
• Implementation
• Build

Comparison

Tested with: Ryzen 5950x, GTX 1660 Ti

Estimate

Assuming speed of 5.8million keys a second

GUI Usage

After finding an address, create a new Monero wallet:

Input the address, private view key, and private spend key:

And verify your new wallet address is correct:

CLI Usage

Usage: monero-vanity [--OPTIONS]

Options:
  -t, --threads <THREADS>  How many threads to use [default: HALF_THREADS]
  -p, --pattern <PATTERN>  Address regex pattern to look for
  -f, --first              Start from 1st character instead of: ^4.PATTERN.*$
  -r, --refresh <REFRESH>  How many milliseconds in-between output refreshes [default: 500]
  -v, --version            Print version
  -h, --help               Print help (see more with '--help')

Example 1 - Basic pattern using half threads:

./monero-vanity --pattern hinto

> 44hinto...

Example 2 - Advanced regex pattern using half threads:

./monero-vanity --first --pattern "^4(4|8)h(i|1)nto.*$"

> 48hinto...

After finding the private spend key:

./monero-wallet-cli --generate-from-spend-key YOUR_WALLET_NAME

Enter the private key and the generated wallet will have the address found.

Notes:

• Rust regex is allowed in any mode
• All characters must be ASCII, Unicode, or a regex pattern
• I, O, l, 0, +, / are invalid characters in Monero addresses
• Using slightly less than max threads might be faster

monero-vanity automatically prefixes your input with ^4. and suffixes it with .*$ so that your PATTERN starts from the 3rd character until the 43rd character of the address.

Example input: hinto
Actual regex used: ^4.hinto.*$

To disable this, use --first.

Warning: this puts you in full control of the regex, you can input any value, even an impossible one.

Install

Download here.

Cargo

If you have cargo, you can install with:

cargo install monero-vanity

Arch

If you're using Arch Linux, you can install from the AUR with:

paru monero-vanity

Implementation

1. Random [u8; 64] is generated (512 bits/64 bytes)
2. Scalar is created by reducing the above bytes
3. Compressed EdwardsPoint's base58 encoding is checked (4...) with regex
4. If match, create full address and return to user, else...
5. Increment EdwardsPoint by 1 and continue

Notes:

• Each thread seeds its own RNG
• The (optional) private view key is also created by reducing 512 random bits

Build

cargo build --release

Optimized for your specific CPU (up to 15%~ speed increase):

RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" cargo build --release

Thanks

Big thanks to kayabaNerve for helping me with ECC cryptography and Rust (he's the reason why it's fast).