# Legacy Address convention

## Legacy Address convention

In EtherealNetwork chain 2.0 generation, we used to have Legacy Addresses (that always start with `V`). Those addresses essentially are 20 bytes Ethereum-like addresses but encoded differently on UI. The difference is that instead of a hex string prefixed with `0x`, the Legacy address is extended with checksum (4 extra bytes), encoded with Base58, and prefixed with 'V'.

'V' + base58(20-bytes-address + 4-bytes-checksum)

#### Examples:

| EVM Address                                | Legacy Address                     |
| ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------- |
| 0x32Be343B94f860124dC4fEe278FDCBD38C102D88 | V5dJeCa7bmkqmZF53TqjRbnB4fG6hxuu4f |
| 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000f | V111111111111111111111111112jSS6vy |

Refer to this repository to get more details and snippets in some programming languages: <https://github.com/Ethereal/Ethereal-legacy-address-lib>