Magic

Magic offers client-side embedded wallets and server wallets. Both can provide the ECDSA signatures required by a Rhinestone smart account, but they use different trust boundaries. For Solana, see the common authority recipe and remote signer requirements. This guide covers Ethereum signers, not a new vendor Solana integration; Ed25519 wallets are not supported Swig authorities.

Embedded wallet
Server wallet

Use this path when Magic authenticates and signs in the browser.

Install and initialize Magic

These examples target SDK 3.0.0, which is not released yet. The install command below requires its publication; the current v2 package does not support these APIs.

npm install magic-sdk @rhinestone/sdk@3.0.0 viem

import { Magic } from 'magic-sdk'

export const magic = new Magic(process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_MAGIC_API_KEY!)

The Magic key in this snippet is publishable. Keep the Rhinestone API key and any Magic secret key server-side.

Authenticate and create a viem account

Magic embedded wallets do not support wallet_switchEthereumChain, which the Rhinestone signing flow can request. Ignore only chain add and switch requests, and forward every other RPC method to Magic. The wrapper also converts bigint values before typed-data signing.

import { walletClientToAccount } from '@rhinestone/sdk/evm'
import {
  createWalletClient,
  custom,
  type TypedData,
  type TypedDataDefinition,
} from 'viem'
import { toAccount } from 'viem/accounts'
import { magic } from './magic'

await magic.auth.loginWithEmailOTP({ email: userEmail })

const addresses = (await magic.rpcProvider.request({
  method: 'eth_accounts',
})) as `0x${string}`[]
const address = addresses[0]
if (!address) throw new Error('Magic did not return a wallet address')

function serializeBigInts(value: unknown): unknown {
  if (typeof value === 'bigint') return value.toString(10)
  if (Array.isArray(value)) return value.map(serializeBigInts)
  if (value && typeof value === 'object') {
    return Object.fromEntries(
      Object.entries(value).map(([key, nested]) => [
        key,
        serializeBigInts(nested),
      ]),
    )
  }
  return value
}

const provider = {
  request: async (args: { method: string; params?: unknown[] }) => {
    if (
      args.method === 'wallet_switchEthereumChain' ||
      args.method === 'wallet_addEthereumChain'
    ) {
      return null
    }
    return magic.rpcProvider.request(args)
  },
}

const walletClient = createWalletClient({
  account: address,
  transport: custom(provider),
})
const adapted = walletClientToAccount(walletClient)

if (!adapted.signMessage || !adapted.signTransaction || !adapted.signTypedData) {
  throw new Error('Magic does not support the required signing methods')
}

export const magicOwner = toAccount({
  address: adapted.address,
  signMessage: adapted.signMessage,
  signTransaction: adapted.signTransaction,
  signTypedData: async <
    const typedData extends TypedData | Record<string, unknown>,
    primaryType extends keyof typedData | 'EIP712Domain' = keyof typedData,
  >(
    definition: TypedDataDefinition<typedData, primaryType>,
  ) =>
    adapted.signTypedData(
      serializeBigInts(definition) as TypedDataDefinition<
        typedData,
        primaryType
      >,
    ),
})

Create the Rhinestone account

Authenticate the browser SDK with short-lived JWTs from your backend:

import { RhinestoneSDK } from '@rhinestone/sdk'
import { magicOwner } from './magic-owner'

const rhinestone = new RhinestoneSDK({
  auth: {
    mode: 'experimental_jwt',
    accessToken: async () => {
      const response = await fetch('/api/auth/access-token', {
        credentials: 'include',
      })
      if (!response.ok) throw new Error('Unable to authenticate with Rhinestone')
      return ((await response.json()) as { token: string }).token
    },
  },
})

const account = await rhinestone.createAccount({
  evm: { owners: { type: 'ecdsa', accounts: [magicOwner] } },
})

See security for secure token issuance and sponsored-intent extension tokens.

Magic Express server wallets require an OIDC provider registered with Magic. Your backend issues a user-bound JWT, obtains or creates that user’s wallet, and sends message hashes to Magic for signing. Follow Magic Express setup to register your issuer and JWKS endpoint first.

Create Magic Express helpers

Run this code only on your backend:

import type { Hex } from 'viem'

const magicExpressUrl = 'https://tee.express.magiclabs.com'

function magicHeaders(userJwt: string) {
  return {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${userJwt}`,
    'X-Magic-API-Key': process.env.MAGIC_API_KEY!,
    'X-OIDC-Provider-ID': process.env.MAGIC_OIDC_PROVIDER_ID!,
    'X-Magic-Chain': 'ETH',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  }
}

export async function getOrCreateMagicWallet(userJwt: string) {
  const response = await fetch(`${magicExpressUrl}/v2/wallet`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: magicHeaders(userJwt),
  })
  if (!response.ok) throw new Error('Unable to create Magic wallet')
  return response.json() as Promise<{ public_address: Hex }>
}

export async function signWithMagic(userJwt: string, hash: Hex) {
  const response = await fetch(`${magicExpressUrl}/v2/wallet/sign/data`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: magicHeaders(userJwt),
    body: JSON.stringify({ raw_data_hash: hash }),
  })
  if (!response.ok) throw new Error('Magic signing failed')
  return response.json() as Promise<{ signature: Hex }>
}

Validate the application session before issuing userJwt. Keep the OIDC private key and Magic credentials in a server-side secret manager.

Create a server-side owner and account

import { RhinestoneSDK } from '@rhinestone/sdk'
import {
  hashMessage,
  hashTypedData,
  type TypedData,
  type TypedDataDefinition,
} from 'viem'
import { toAccount } from 'viem/accounts'
import { getOrCreateMagicWallet, signWithMagic } from './magic-express'

const { public_address } = await getOrCreateMagicWallet(userJwt)
const magicOwner = toAccount({
  address: public_address,
  async signMessage({ message }) {
    return (await signWithMagic(userJwt, hashMessage(message))).signature
  },
  async signTypedData<
    const typedData extends TypedData | Record<string, unknown>,
    primaryType extends keyof typedData | 'EIP712Domain' = keyof typedData,
  >(definition: TypedDataDefinition<typedData, primaryType>) {
    return (await signWithMagic(userJwt, hashTypedData(definition))).signature
  },
  async signTransaction() {
    throw new Error('Raw transaction signing is not enabled')
  },
})

const rhinestone = new RhinestoneSDK({
  auth: {
    mode: 'apiKey',
    apiKey: process.env.RHINESTONE_API_KEY!,
  },
})

const account = await rhinestone.createAccount({
  evm: { owners: { type: 'ecdsa', accounts: [magicOwner] } },
})

Bind userJwt to the authenticated user and authorize every signing request. Do not expose a generic hash-signing endpoint to unauthenticated clients.

For sponsored transactions, follow sponsorship setup. For the transaction lifecycle, continue to send a transaction.

Account setup

Recovery

Signing

Configuration

Integration

SDK reference