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vaults
Create Vault
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.dfns.io/vaults \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-DFNS-USERACTION: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "<string>",
  "tags": [],
  "externalId": "<string>"
}
'
import requests

url = "https://api.dfns.io/vaults"

payload = {
"name": "<string>",
"tags": [],
"externalId": "<string>"
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"X-DFNS-USERACTION": "<api-key>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
Authorization: 'Bearer <token>',
'X-DFNS-USERACTION': '<api-key>',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({name: '<string>', tags: [], externalId: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.dfns.io/vaults', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.dfns.io/vaults",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'name' => '<string>',
'tags' => [

],
'externalId' => '<string>'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json",
"X-DFNS-USERACTION: <api-key>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api.dfns.io/vaults"

payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"tags\": [],\n \"externalId\": \"<string>\"\n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("X-DFNS-USERACTION", "<api-key>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.dfns.io/vaults")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("X-DFNS-USERACTION", "<api-key>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"tags\": [],\n \"externalId\": \"<string>\"\n}")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.dfns.io/vaults")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["X-DFNS-USERACTION"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"name\": \"<string>\",\n \"tags\": [],\n \"externalId\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "id": "vlt-5vbsp-u62g1-ostmunqgds5o9tc2",
  "orgId": "<string>",
  "tags": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "dateCreated": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "dateUpdated": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "name": "<string>",
  "externalId": "<string>",
  "addresses": [
    {
      "walletId": "<string>",
      "network": "<string>",
      "address": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}

Authentication

✅ Organization User (CustomerEmployee)
❌ Delegated User (EndUser)
✅ Service Account

Required Permissions

Vaults:Create: Always required.

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer Token: Used to authenticate API requests. More details how to generate the token: Authentication flows

X-DFNS-USERACTION
string
header
required

User Action Signature: Used to sign the change-inducing API requests. More details how to generate the token: User Action Signing flows

Body

application/json
name
string
Maximum string length: 200
tags
string[]
Maximum array length: 10

Vault Tag.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.:/+-]{1,100}$
externalId
string
Maximum string length: 100

Response

200 - application/json

Success

Vault object.

id
string
required

Vault id.

Required string length: 1 - 64
Pattern: ^vlt-[a-z0-9]{5}-[a-z0-9]{5}-[a-z0-9]{14,16}$
Example:

"vlt-5vbsp-u62g1-ostmunqgds5o9tc2"

orgId
string
required
tags
string[]
required
dateCreated
string<date-time>
required
dateUpdated
string<date-time>
required
name
string
externalId
string
addresses
object[]

The vault's addresses.

Last modified on July 9, 2026