How do I find my Monero primary address?

You can find your Monero primary address in your wallet’s Receive section or account details. Look for Primary address, Main address, or Account 0: a standard Monero primary address is 95 characters long and starts with 4.

Where to look in your wallet

Open the wallet where you want to receive your XMR, the currency used by Monero. Make sure you have opened the right wallet if you use more than one.

The exact labels depend on your wallet app, but these steps usually work:

1. Open Receive, Addresses, or Account details.
2. Select the first account, often called Account 0, Primary account, or Main account.
3. Look for the original receiving address rather than a newly created address.
4. Use the wallet’s Copy address button.

In the official Monero GUI, the desktop wallet with a graphical interface, check the Receive page with the primary account selected. If several addresses appear, choose the primary entry.

If you use the official Monero CLI, the text-based wallet, the address command shows the current account’s address. Make sure you are viewing account 0 when you want the wallet’s primary address.

A wallet does not normally need to finish syncing—catching up with Monero’s transaction history—just to show your address. Syncing matters when you want to see incoming payments and your available balance.

Check that it is the primary address

For Monero’s main network, where real XMR is used, these address types help you tell them apart:

• Primary address: 95 characters, starting with 4.
• Subaddress: 95 characters, starting with 8. This is an extra receiving address belonging to your wallet.
• Integrated address: 106 characters, starting with 4. This combines an address with a payment identifier.

Check both the first character and the length. Starting with 4 alone does not prove that an address is your primary address.

Your wallet has one primary address. Additional accounts and receiving addresses generally use subaddresses. Their XMR still belongs to the same wallet, but they are not the primary address.

You do not need to create a new wallet or make a transaction to find your existing primary address.

Copy it safely for a mining payout

If a mining service specifically asks for your primary address, copy that address from your wallet. Do not substitute a subaddress unless the service says it accepts one.

After pasting, compare the pasted address with the one in your wallet. Check at least the beginning and end; checking the full address is safer. Malicious software can replace a copied address with someone else’s.

Your receiving address is safe to give to a service that needs to pay you. However, avoid posting your primary address publicly without a reason: reusing the same address lets people connect those uses to you.

Never provide your seed phrase, the recovery words that restore your wallet, or your private spending key. Neither is needed to receive mining payouts. Anyone asking for them to “verify” your address is putting your funds at risk.

The bottom line

Open your wallet’s receiving details, select account 0, and copy the primary address. Confirm that it has 95 characters and starts with 4, then double-check it after pasting. Your recovery words should never leave your control.