Personal Access Tokens (PAT) - Dfns documentation

{
  "dateCreated": "<string>",
  "credId": "<string>",
  "isActive": true,
  "linkedUserId": "<string>",
  "linkedAppId": "<string>",
  "name": "<string>",
  "orgId": "<string>",
  "permissionAssignments": [
    {
      "permissionName": "<string>",
      "permissionId": "<string>",
      "assignmentId": "<string>",
      "operations": [
        "<string>"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "publicKey": "<string>",
  "tokenId": "<string>",
  "accessToken": "<string>"
}

Create a Personal Access Token

Step-by-step guide to create a PAT and configure your SDK

Personal Access Tokens (PATs) are used to automate actions on behalf of a user. PATs are linked to your user. The effective permissions of a PAT are always the intersection of the user’s permissions and the token’s own permissions, enforced on every request. This means you can create a read-only PAT to monitor transactions in your wallet without reducing the permissions of your user. Since PATs are tied to a user, if the user is deactivated, all their PATs stop working (the backend validates the user’s active status on every request). Reactivating the user restores PAT access. Because of this, PATs are not meant to be used for server tasks. If you have a long-lived task, it is recommended that you use a Service Account instead, as Service Accounts are not tied to a specific user. This also means that a Service Account can have different permissions from the user that created the Service Account, giving you the ability to limit user permissions without affecting server tasks.

Personal Access Token object

dateCreated

string

required

credId

string

required

isActive

boolean

required

kind

enum<string>

required

Access token kind.

Available options:

Pat,

ServiceAccount,

Token,

Code,

Recovery,

Temp,

Application

linkedUserId

string

required

linkedAppId

string

required

name

string

required

orgId

string

required

permissionAssignments

object[]

required

Show child attributes

publicKey

string

required

tokenId

string

required

accessToken

string

Last modified on May 15, 2026

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