Address book guide

Choose a reference

Get the full address from the recipient through a channel you already trust. Open the address book, select Add recipient, and give the verified address a recognizable name.

Choose a name that distinguishes accounts with different purposes, such as Treasury or Reimbursements. Search by name or by characters in the address once you have more than one entry.

If the recipient changes their address, confirm the new one with them first. Select the existing entry, choose Edit, and check the new address before saving.

Read the comparison

1. Select the saved recipient.
2. Paste the full address you intend to use and select Compare addresses.
3. Read the result and review any highlighted bytes.

Exact match

All 20 bytes equal the saved reference. A match cannot establish who originally supplied that reference.

Addresses differ

One or more bytes differ. Check the address again through your trusted channel before sending.

Each byte is two hexadecimal characters. Uppercase and lowercase letters represent the same byte, so Pally compares them without regard to case. This checks address equality and does not validate the capitalization of an EIP-55 checksum.

Read about lookalike addresses in MetaMask's guide.

Confirm the network

The same 0x address format is used on multiple networks. Select BNB Smart Chain, chain ID 56, and review the recipient, amount and token in your wallet before confirming there.

Pally compares the addresses in the browser. The check does not read balances, verify whether a recipient can accept a specific token, or submit a transfer.

BNB Smart Chain network documentation.

Storage and backups

Up to 80 recipients stay in the current browser profile for this site. Clearing site data or opening Pally in another profile can leave you without those entries. Private browsing may discard them when the session ends.

Open Address book backup and select Export to download the names and addresses as a plain JSON file. The file is not encrypted, so store it somewhere private. There is no automatic device sync.

On the other device, use Choose backup. Check that the file is yours, then confirm Add recipients. Pally skips addresses already in the book and keeps their existing names. Review imported addresses before using them.

Troubleshooting

The address is rejected

Paste 0x followed by 40 hexadecimal characters. Copy the full address instead of an abbreviated version, link or name.

Clipboard access is blocked

Select and copy the full saved address directly from the entry. Your browser may block automatic clipboard access.

The address book is unavailable

Allow site storage and reload. If the browser reports unreadable saved data, use a known backup before clearing the local site data.