Learn by doing

Walkthroughs that take you from a fresh testnet account to a successful multi-sig ceremony. The HBAR walkthrough below is the canonical example; everything else is a variant — same shape, one piece changed.

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HBAR walkthrough — the canonical example

~30 minutes end-to-end. CLI signers, CLI coordinator, real multi-sig ceremony, mirror confirmation. The simplest path through the protocol — every variant below changes one piece of this.

  1. 01
    Precheck. Verify operator credentials, balance, and dependencies. (00-precheck.js)
  2. 02
    Generate keys. Three Ed25519 keys, encrypted with a passphrase. Each signer holds one. (01-generate-keys.js)
  3. 03
    Create the threshold account. KeyList(2-of-3) wraps the three public keys. The account is the multi-sig treasury. (02-create-threshold-account.js)
  4. 04
    Start the coordinator. WebSocket server holds session state, broadcasts the frozen tx, collects signatures. (npx hedera-multisig server)
  5. 05
    Sign the ceremony. Coordinator builds + freezes + injects an HBAR transfer. CLI participants review and approve within 120s. (npx hedera-multisig participant)
  6. 06
    Verify. Mirror node confirms the transfer landed. Receipt success isn't enough — the network must externalize. (06-verify-on-mirror.js)
View the full walkthrough on GitHub

Variants

Each variant is the HBAR walkthrough with one piece swapped — signing surface, transaction type, key curve, or coordination model. Skim the line, follow the link if it's the shape you need.

dApp signing
— Same ceremony, but signers participate through the public dApp + a Hedera wallet (HashPack, Blade, Kabila) instead of the CLI participant. Best for “what does signing actually feel like for participants?”
Token & NFT transfers
— Same shape, different transaction types — HTS fungible transfers, NFT transfers, and token-association ceremonies. Smoke-test for the dApp's non-HBAR transaction-builder paths.
ECDSA keys
— Same dApp flow as above, but with secp256k1 (ECDSA) keys instead of Ed25519. Validates the entire stack — coordinator, dApp, CLI, mirror — is genuinely curve-agnostic. Useful when an EVM-native team brings their existing keys.
Smart-contract calls
— Deploy as a single-sig EOA, interact normally, then convert the account to 2-of-3 multi-sig and prove single-sig is dead. Adds the EOA→multi-sig migration story plus multi-sig increment() and withdraw() ceremonies.
Scheduled signing
— No 120-second window — HIP-423 async signing over hours, days, or up to ~62 days. Each signer signs on their own time; the network executes when the threshold is met. The pattern for cross-timezone treasury teams.
Agent automation
— Replaces a human signer with a headless agent driven by composable policy rules — amount limits, recipient allowlists, time windows. Same ceremony shape, different signer. Showcase for the Agent Signing SDK.

Prerequisites

  1. Get a testnet account at portal.hedera.com (free; auto-funded with ~10,000 ℏ).
  2. Clone the repo from github.com/lazysuperheroes/hedera-multisig and run npm install.
  3. Copy .env.example to .env and set OPERATOR_ID + OPERATOR_KEY.
  4. Run node 00-precheck.js in the walkthrough directory — verifies env, balance, and dependencies.

Deeper reading

Architecture, threat model, and decision recipes — the documents that go beyond the demo. For teams choosing whether this is the right multi-sig solution.