Electrum Mnemonics (electrum v2 and greater)

Install

npm install electrum-mnemonic

Usage

• Generate a mnemonic (English only for now)

const mn = require('electrum-mnemonic')
console.log(mn.generateMnemonic()) // default segwit bech32 wallet
console.log(mn.generateMnemonic({ prefix: mn.PREFIXES.segwit })) // explicit segwit bech32 wallet
console.log(mn.generateMnemonic({ prefix: mn.PREFIXES.standard })) // legacy p2pkh wallet (base58 address starting with 1)
console.log(mn.generateMnemonic({ prefix: mn.PREFIXES['2fa'] })) // 2fa legacy
console.log(mn.generateMnemonic({ prefix: mn.PREFIXES['2fa-segwit'] })) // legacy p2pkh wallet (base58 address starting with 1)

• Validate mnemonic phrase (default prefix: segwit)

const mn = require('electrum-mnemonic')
const segwitPhrase = mn.generateMnemonic();
const standardPhrase = mn.generateMnemonic({ prefix: mn.PREFIXES.standard });
console.log(mn.validateMnemonic(segwitPhrase, mn.PREFIXES.segwit)); // true
console.log(mn.validateMnemonic(standardPhrase, mn.PREFIXES.standard)); // true

• Convert mnemonic into 64 byte seed (for bip32)

const mn = require('electrum-mnemonic')
const phrase = mn.generateMnemonic()
const seed = mn.mnemonicToSeedSync(phrase, { passphrase: 'extrapassword' })
console.log(seed)

// async
;(async () => {
  const seed2 = await mn.mnemonicToSeed(phrase)
  // no extra password so seed and seed2 should be different
  console.log(seed2)
})()

• mnemonicToSeed prefix must match the prefix used to generate (default: segwit)

const mn = require('electrum-mnemonic')
const phrase = mn.generateMnemonic({ prefix: mn.PREFIXES.standard })
const seed = mn.mnemonicToSeedSync(phrase, { prefix: mn.PREFIXES.standard })
console.log(seed)
const segwitPhrase = mn.generateMnemonic()
const segwitSeed = mn.mnemonicToSeedSync(phrase)
console.log(segwitSeed)

• Skip valid version prefix check

const mn = require('electrum-mnemonic')
const seed = mn.mnemonicToSeedSync('abc', { skipCheck: true })
console.log(seed)

• Custom prefixes for checking

const mn = require('electrum-mnemonic')
const phrase = mn.generateMnemonic({ prefix: 'fed' })
const seed = mn.mnemonicToSeedSync(phrase, { prefix: 'fed' })
console.log(seed)