Creating profiles

Creating a profile is as simple as calling the CreateProfile method. The only thing we require you to send us is a string that uniquely represents the player on your end. We call this your entityId, and you decide what this ID is.

const profile = await beam.profiles.createProfile({ entityId: "some-string-unique-to-you", chainId: 4337 });

A couple of examples what this ID could contain:

• An ID representing an entity in your own service (for example: a match ID)
• A pre-defined constant, eg; ‘Minter’

It’s up to you! But consider this carefully: in case of an application emergency on your end, you will want to be able to restore a mapping to the correct Profiles, hence our recommendation using an identifier which you already have and can easily fetch.

The entityId you provide us with is included in most Profile related responses as the externalEntityId, should you ever need to refer to it.

Profiles on chain

Note that the wallets we create do not exist on-chain until then first transaction finalizes. Once a profile is created, it will not be deployed until the first on-chain activity takes place.