---
title: "Create Payment Address for a cryptocurrency"
method: POST
path: "/users/{user_id}/wallets/{currency}/addresses?"
---

# Create Payment Address for a cryptocurrency

`POST /users/{user_id}/wallets/{currency}/addresses?`

Create a Payment Address for a wallet, once you call the API, a wallet address would be created, then you would need to the listen to [wallet.address.generated](https://docs.quidax.io/docs/wallet-address-generated) webhook with the wallet id to get the wallet address that has been created.

## Path parameters

- `user_id` string, required
- `currency` 'btc' | 'usdt' | 'eth' | 'xaut' | 'usat' | 'xrp' | 'dash' | 'ltc' | 'trx' | 'doge' | 'bnb' | 'pol' | 'usdc' | 'aave' | 'shib' | 'link' | 'cake' | 'xlm' | 'ada' | 'bch' | 'floki' | 'sol' | 'cfx' | 'ton' | 'sui' | 'zk' | 'lsk' | 'axcnh' | 'qdx' | 'cngn', required

## Query parameters

- `network` string

## Response `200`

200

- object
  - `status` string
  - `message` string
  - `data` object
    - `id` string
    - `reference` unknown
    - `currency` string
    - `address` unknown
    - `network` string
    - `user` object
      - `id` string
      - `sn` string
      - `email` string
      - `reference` unknown
      - `first_name` string
      - `last_name` string
      - `display_name` string
      - `created_at` string
      - `updated_at` string
    - `destination_tag` unknown
    - `total_payments` unknown
    - `created_at` string
    - `updated_at` string

## Other responses

- `401` — 401
- `404` — 404

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