Skip to content
Aptos Documentation

Create Test Accounts and Send Transactions From Aptos CLI

In general, to make a new account on-chain, you will need to generate keys and then fund the account. On devnet, you can fund a new account by asking a “faucet” account with test Aptos tokens to send them to your account. On testnet you can mint at the mint page.

Using the CLI, you can generate and fund a test account using:

Terminal window
aptos init --profile <your-profile-name>

Once you have a funded account you can send coins between accounts with the transfer command like this:

Terminal window
aptos account transfer --account superuser --amount 100

You should see a result like:

{
  "Result": {
    "gas_used": 73,
    "balance_changes": {
      "742854f7dca56ea6309b51e8cebb830b12623f9c9d76c72c3242e4cad353dedc": {
        "coin": {
          "value": "10100"
        },
        "deposit_events": {
          "counter": "2",
          "guid": {
            "id": {
              "addr": "0x742854f7dca56ea6309b51e8cebb830b12623f9c9d76c72c3242e4cad353dedc",
              "creation_num": "1"
            }
          }
        },
        "withdraw_events": {
          "counter": "0",
          "guid": {
            "id": {
              "addr": "0x742854f7dca56ea6309b51e8cebb830b12623f9c9d76c72c3242e4cad353dedc",
              "creation_num": "2"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "b9bd2cfa58ca29bce1d7add25fce5c62220604cd0236fe3f90d9de91ed9fb8cb": {
        "coin": {
          "value": "9827"
        },
        "deposit_events": {
          "counter": "1",
          "guid": {
            "id": {
              "addr": "0xb9bd2cfa58ca29bce1d7add25fce5c62220604cd0236fe3f90d9de91ed9fb8cb",
              "creation_num": "1"
            }
          }
        },
        "withdraw_events": {
          "counter": "1",
          "guid": {
            "id": {
              "addr": "0xb9bd2cfa58ca29bce1d7add25fce5c62220604cd0236fe3f90d9de91ed9fb8cb",
              "creation_num": "2"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "sender": "b9bd2cfa58ca29bce1d7add25fce5c62220604cd0236fe3f90d9de91ed9fb8cb",
    "success": true,
    "version": 1139,
    "vm_status": "Executed successfully"
  }
}

This can be useful for manual testing of Move contracts or just to try seeing how the chain works in practice.