---
name: validateaddress
btcversion: 0.17.0
btcgroup: util
permalink: en/doc/0.17.0/rpc/util/validateaddress/
---

validateaddress "address"

Return information about the given bitcoin address.
DEPRECATION WARNING: Parts of this command have been deprecated and moved to getaddressinfo. Clients must
transition to using getaddressinfo to access this information before upgrading to v0.18. The following deprecated
fields have moved to getaddressinfo and will only be shown here with -deprecatedrpc=validateaddre