AdequateCryptoAddress

Simple wallet address validator and normalizer for cryptocurrencies addresses in Ruby.

Inspired by ognus/wallet-address-validator.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'adequate_crypto_address'

Or install it yourself as:

gem install adequate_crypto_address

Upgrading to 0.3.0

0.3.0 is additive and has no breaking changes — upgrade freely. It adds validators for TRON (trx/tron), Tezos (xtz/tezos), Cosmos (atom/cosmos), and BNB Smart Chain (bsc/binancesmartchain); see the supported crypto currencies list for their types. If you are coming from 0.1.x, also read the notes below.

Upgrading from 0.1.x to 0.2.0

0.2.0 hardens the validators against malformed input and makes the address_type API consistent. Most callers of .valid? need no changes, but a few behaviors changed. See the CHANGELOG for the full list.

Stricter validation (addresses that used to pass may now fail)

Some malformed addresses that earlier versions incorrectly accepted are now rejected. If your app stored or allow-listed such values, re-validate them:

• BCH legacy addresses with a bad checksum/length, CashAddr addresses with a non-bitcoincash/bchtest/bchreg prefix (e.g. evil:...), or a payload shorter than the version byte declares.
• TON any 48-character string (e.g. "A" * 48) — a valid tag, workchain, and CRC16 checksum are now required.
• Monero anything that is not a checksum-valid Base58 address (e.g. "4" + "!" * 94).

If you rely on a currency name, note that unknown names still raise AdequateCryptoAddress::UnknownCurrency, but a nil or malformed address now consistently returns false from .valid? instead of raising.

address_type is now public and consistent

AdequateCryptoAddress.address_type(address, currency) is a supported public method for every currency. It returns the detected type as a Symbol when the address is valid, or nil when it is not.

Some returned type symbols changed. Update any code that compared against the old values:

Currency	0.1.x	0.2.0
TON	:TON	:ton_mainnet / :ton_testnet
Monero	:monero	:standard / :integrated / :subaddress
ETH	nil	:eth
SOL	nil	:solana
XLM	nil	:account / :muxed

# 0.1.x
AdequateCryptoAddress::Ton.new(addr).send(:address_type) # private, => :TON

# 0.2.0
AdequateCryptoAddress.address_type(addr, :TON)           # public, => :ton_mainnet

Type symbols passed to .valid? for these currencies changed accordingly, e.g. valid?(addr, :TON, :ton_mainnet).

New network accessors

SegWit Bitcoin types are network-agnostic; call .network to enforce a network:

AdequateCryptoAddress.address('bc1qar0srrr7xfkvy5l643lydnw9re59gtzzwf5mdq', :btc).network #=> :mainnet
AdequateCryptoAddress.address('tb1qw508d6qejxtdg4y5r3zarvary0c5xw7kxpjzsx', :btc).network #=> :testnet

Xmr#network reports :mainnet / :testnet / :stagenet.

Internal rename (only if you subclassed Bch)

The BCH internal helper address_type(address_code, address_type) was renamed to type_mapping(address_code, address_type). The public address_type (no arguments) now returns the detected type.

Main API

.valid? (address, currency [, type = nil])

Parameters

• address - Wallet address to validate.
• currency - Currency name string or symbol in any case, :bitcoin or 'BTC' or :btc or 'BitCoin'
• type - Optional. You can enforce validation with specific type. Not all currencies support types.

Returns true if the address (string) is a valid wallet address for the crypto currency specified, see below for supported currencies. An unknown currency raises AdequateCryptoAddress::UnknownCurrency; a nil or malformed address returns false.

.address_type (address, currency)

Returns the detected address type as a Symbol when the address is valid for the currency, or nil when it is not. The type vocabulary per currency is listed below.

AdequateCryptoAddress.address_type('bc1qar0srrr7xfkvy5l643lydnw9re59gtzzwf5mdq', :btc) #=> :segwit_v0_keyhash
AdequateCryptoAddress.address_type('not a real address', :btc)                       #=> nil

Supported crypto currencies

• Bitcoin/BTC, 'bitcoin' or 'BTC' types: :segwit_v0_keyhash :segwit_v0_scripthash :taproot :hash160 :p2sh :hash160test :p2shtest. SegWit types are network-agnostic; call AdequateCryptoAddress.address(addr, :btc).network to get :mainnet/:testnet.
• BitcoinCash/BCH, 'bitcoincash' or 'BCH' types: :p2sh :p2pkh :p2pkhtest :p2shtest
• Cardano/ADA, 'cardano' or 'ADA' types: :prod :test
• Dash, 'dash' or 'DASH' types: :prod :test
• Dogecoin/DOGE, 'dogecoin' or 'DOGE' types: :prod :test
• Zcash/ZEC, 'zcash' or 'ZEC' types: :prod :test
• Ethereum/ETH, 'ethereum' or 'ETH' type: :eth
• Litecoin/LTC, 'litecoin' or 'LTC' types: :prod :test
• Ripple/XRP, 'ripple' or 'XRP' type: :common
• Solana/SOL, 'solana' or 'SOL' type: :solana
• Stellar/XLM, 'stellar' or 'XLM' types: :account :muxed
• Toncoin/TON, 'TON' or 'Toncoin' types: :ton_mainnet :ton_testnet
• Monero/XMR, 'monero' or 'XMR' types: :standard :integrated :subaddress (.network reports :mainnet/:testnet/:stagenet)
• TRON/TRX, 'tron' or 'TRX' type: :prod
• Tezos/XTZ, 'tezos' or 'XTZ' types: :implicit :originated
• Cosmos/ATOM, 'cosmos' or 'ATOM' type: :prod
• BNB Smart Chain/BSC, 'bsc' or 'binancesmartchain' type: :bsc (Ethereum-format address)

Format coverage

This gem validates the mainstream, checksum-bearing payment address for each supported chain. The following related formats are currently out of scope and are rejected (they return false) rather than silently accepted. They may be added in future releases:

• Bitcoin witness versions 2–16 and newer output forms (e.g. P2MR / BIP-360); only v0 (Bech32) and v1 Taproot (Bech32m) are recognized.
• Litecoin MWEB (ltcmweb1...) addresses and future witness versions.
• Zcash Sapling, Unified, Orchard, and TEX addresses; only transparent t-addresses are validated.
• XRP X-addresses (with embedded destination tags); only classic r... addresses are validated.
• Dash Platform Bech32m addresses; only Core Base58Check addresses are validated.
• Cardano Byron and stake/reward addresses; only Shelley payment address types 0–7 are validated. Stake addresses are intentionally excluded from a payment-address validator.
• Stellar contract (C...) and other SEP-23 StrKey types; only G (account) and M (muxed) addresses are validated.
• TON raw workchain:account_id addresses; only the Base64URL user-friendly form is validated.

Usage

Validation

require 'adequate_crypto_address'
# BTC
AdequateCryptoAddress.valid?('12QeMLzSrB8XH8FvEzPMVoRxVAzTr5XM2y', 'BTC') #=> true
AdequateCryptoAddress.valid?('3NJZLcZEEYBpxYEUGewU4knsQRn1WM5Fkt', :bitcoin, :p2sh) #=> true

# BCH
AdequateCryptoAddress.valid?('bitcoincash:qrtj3rd8524cndt2eew3s6wljqggmne00sgh4kfypk', :bch) #=> true
AdequateCryptoAddress.valid?('mmRH4e9WW4ekZUP5HvBScfUyaSUjfQRyvD', :BCH, :p2pkhtest) #=> true

# ETH
AdequateCryptoAddress.valid?('0xde709f2102306220921060314715629080e2fb77', :ETH) #=> true
AdequateCryptoAddress.valid?('de709f2102306220921060314715629080e2fb77', :ethereum) #=> true

Normalization

*Not all currencies support this feature.

require 'adequate_crypto_address'

# BCH
AdequateCryptoAddress.address('mmRH4e9WW4ekZUP5HvBScfUyaSUjfQRyvD', 'bch').cash_address #=> "bchtest:qpqtmmfpw79thzq5z7s0spcd87uhn6d34uqqem83hf"
AdequateCryptoAddress.address('bitcoincash:qrtj3rd8524cndt2eew3s6wljqggmne00sgh4kfypk', 'bch').legacy_address #=> "1LcerwTc1oPsMtByDCNUXFxReZpN1EXHoe"

address_string = 'qrtj3rd8524cndt2eew3s6wljqggmne00sgh4kfypk'
addr = AdequateCryptoAddress.address(address_string, 'bch')
addr.prefix #=> "bitcoincash"
addr.type #=> :p2pkh
addr.address #=> "bitcoincash:qrtj3rd8524cndt2eew3s6wljqggmne00sgh4kfypk"

# ETH
AdequateCryptoAddress.address('D1220A0cf47c7B9Be7A2E6BA89F429762e7b9aDb', 'eth').address #=> "0xD1220A0cf47c7B9Be7A2E6BA89F429762e7b9aDb"

ActiveRecord validation example

class Model < ActiveRecord::Base
  attribute :address, :string
  attribute :dest_tag, :string
  attribute :currency, :string

  validate  :validate_address_type
  validate  :validate_destination_tag

  def validate_address_type
    errors.add(:address, 'invalid address') unless AdequateCryptoAddress.valid?(address, currency)
  end

  # for Ripple
  def validate_destination_tag
    errors.add(:dest_tag, 'invalid destination tag') if dest_tag.present? && !(dest_tag =~ /\A\d{1,10}\z/)
  end
end

Add your currency

# frozen_string_literal: true
# for Rails /config/initializers/adequate_crypto_address.rb
module AdequateCryptoAddress
  class Coin
    attr_reader :address

    def initialize(address_sring)
      @address = address_sring
    end

    def valid?(_type)
      address.present?
    end
  end
end

AdequateCryptoAddress.valid?('addr', :coin) #=> true

Development

The repository pins Ruby with mise. Install the toolchain and dependencies, then run the complete local quality gate:

mise trust
mise install
mise run setup
mise run check

Individual tasks are available as mise run test, mise run lint, and mise run build. Use mise run console for an interactive prompt.

Contributing

1. Fork the repo
2. Trust and install the toolchain: mise trust && mise install
3. Grab dependencies: mise run setup
4. Make your changes
5. Make sure everything is working: mise run check
6. Create a pull request

Notes

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/vtm9/adequate_crypto_address/issues