personal_sign

Calculates an ethereum signature of the given data from the selected account.

Warning

This method adds the standard "\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n" + len(message) prefix when calculating the signature hash.

ecdsa(keccak256("\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n" + len(message) + message))

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
Data	HexString | String	Data to sign.
Account	Address	Account to sign from.

Return Type

HexString<Signature> - The ethereum ecdsa signature.

Example

TypeScript

await provider.request({
  method: "personal_sign",
  params: ["0xdeadbeaf", "0x9b2055d370f73ec7d8a03e965129118dc8f5bf83"],
});
// "0xa3f20717a250c2b0b729b7e5becbff67fdaef7e0699da4de7ca5895b02a170a12d887fd3b17bfdce3481f10bea41f45ba9f709d39ce8325427b57afcfc994cee1b"