# How is an Algorand's address made?

**URL:** <https://forum.algorand.co/t/how-is-an-algorands-address-made/960>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/how-is-an-algorands-address-made/960 "2019-09-04T07:41:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![redFox22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@redFox22](https://forum.algorand.co/u/redFox22)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/how-is-an-algorands-address-made/960/4 "2019-09-05T14:48:17Z")

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> [@adam](#):
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> For regular addresses, the address is the base32 encoding of a 32-byte ed25519 public key and a 4-byte checksum. (If you’re interested, the checksum is the last 4 bytes of the SHA-512/256 hash of the public key.)

This was what I wanted! Thanks a lot my friend

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