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title: Paper Wallet
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This document describes how to create and use a paper wallet with the Solana CLI
tools.

> We do not intend to advise on how to _securely_ create or manage paper wallets. Please research the security concerns carefully.

## Overview

Solana provides a key generation tool to derive keys from BIP39 compliant seed
phrases. Solana CLI commands for running a validator and staking tokens all
support keypair input via seed phrases.

To learn more about the BIP39 standard, visit the Bitcoin BIPs Github repository
[here](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki).

[Usage](paper-wallet-usage.md)