Receive

Get paid in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Monero or Zcash, check that an address is yours, and hand your offline wallet to your online one.

Every wallet has a Receive button. It shows an address and its QR code for each coin the wallet holds, one tab per coin: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Monero and Zcash (only the coins that wallet has).

#Show an address

1. Open the wallet.
2. Select Receive.
3. Pick the coin's tab.
4. Let the payer scan the QR code, or select Copy address (or the copy button beside the address) and send it to them.

The QR code holds the address only. For Bitcoin, Monero and Zcash it's written as a payment link (bitcoin:…, monero:…, zcash:…) with no amount in it; for Ethereum and Solana it's the plain address. Receive doesn't add an amount: tell the payer how much separately.

#Bitcoin

#Taproot or SegWit

A recovery-phrase wallet has two kinds of Bitcoin address. Both belong to the same wallet, and coins on either are spent together.

On the Bitcoin tab, switch between Taproot and SegWit above the code. To change which kind Receive opens on (and where change goes), go to Settings → Bitcoin address and pick Taproot (bc1p) or SegWit (bc1q).

A single Bitcoin key you imported also has Legacy (1…) and Nested (3…) addresses, and Taproot raw (the kind Taproot vanity finds use).

#A fresh address each time

A recovery-phrase wallet gives each payer a new address. Receive shows the next unused one as "Address #N". All of them arrive in the same wallet, and payers can't link them to each other.

• New address gives you one more.
• Addresses given out lists the ones you've handed out, and marks each one that received something (on the online copy, after a refresh).
• AirWallet stops at 20 unused addresses in a row. Other wallets restoring your words look 20 addresses ahead, so use one of those first.
• A single key has one address. Receive says so.

Your online and offline devices each count addresses on their own. The online copy looks 20 addresses further ahead once a day, so a payment to an address your offline device gave out can take up to a day to show.

#Ethereum and its networks

One address works on all eight networks AirWallet supports: Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain, Avalanche and Robinhood Chain. Coins sent to it show under the network they were sent on. Tokens show when they're on AirWallet's list for that network or you've added them (see Tokens, swaps and staking).

See Coins and networks for what each network uses to pay fees.

#Solana

One address receives SOL and Solana tokens.

#Monero

Monero's Receive tab shows a subaddress (it starts with 8) and its number, such as "address #3". Give each payer their own: they all arrive in this wallet, and nobody can tell they belong to one wallet.

• New address makes the next subaddress.
• Earlier addresses lists the ones made before. The online copy marks the ones that received something (after a sync) and never offers those again.
• Main address (4…) is folded away underneath. It's the same wallet; use it only where something insists on a 4… address, such as some exchanges.

Each device keeps its own subaddress count. Your offline device can't know which subaddresses received money, so the two devices may hand out the same number. That costs privacy, never coins.

Monero you receive can be spent 10 blocks (about 20 minutes) after it arrives.

For what the online copy needs to see your Monero (the view key), read Privacy.

#Zcash

Zcash's Receive tab has a switch: Shielded or Transparent.

• Shielded (a unified address, u1…): the amount, the sender and any memo stay private. New address gives each payer their own address. They all arrive in this wallet, and nobody can tell they're one wallet's. Addresses given out lists earlier ones; any of them still receives.
• Transparent (t1…): public, like Bitcoin. Use it only for exchanges that can't pay a shielded address. Transparent ZEC has to be shielded before you can spend it: open the wallet's ⋯ (More) menu and select Zcash: shield transparent ZEC….

Memos that payers attach show in the wallet's Activity. See Coins and networks for how Zcash's pools work.

#On the offline device

Receive works on the offline device too: it derives the addresses from the keys, with no network. For a wallet whose keys are there, it adds two buttons:

• Show to my online wallet… shows a code your online wallet scans to watch this wallet. It holds the wallet's addresses and no keys. For Monero and Zcash it also holds the view key or viewing key, so the online copy can see what arrives. It never holds a key that can spend. See Set up an offline signer.
• Use with another app… connects the wallet to apps such as Sparrow or MetaMask. See Other wallets and hardware.

#Is this address mine?

A hacked online computer could show you its own address instead of yours. Before you share an address for a large payment, check it on the offline device. That's the device that holds the keys, so it knows which addresses are really yours.

1. On the online device, open Receive and leave the QR code on screen.
2. On the offline device, open Scan to sign and scan that code. You can also paste the address, or a payment link that contains it.
3. Read the answer:
   • Yours: the wallet's name and where the address sits in it, for example "Bitcoin (Taproot) receive address #3".
   • Not one of yours: none of the wallets on this device has it. If your online wallet shows it as yours, don't use it: check that copy.

#Payment notifications

The online copy can tell you when a coin arrives in one of your wallets while AirWallet is open. Turn it on or off in Settings with Notify me of payments. See Notifications and approvals.