Getting started with Parallax
Four steps: a wallet, the network, some LAX, and your first transaction. No account, no signup, about ten minutes.
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Pick a wallet
A wallet creates your key and signs your transactions. Any Ethereum-compatible wallet works with Parallax; these are good places to start.
Parallax Wallet
DesktopThe desktop app runs its own full node, so it checks every payment itself, and it is set up for Parallax out of the box.
About Parallax Wallet
Write down your recovery phrase
When the wallet shows you 12 or 24 words, write them on paper and keep them offline. They are the only way to restore your coins. Anyone asking for them is not helping you.
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Add the Parallax network
Parallax Wallet needs no setup. Other wallets need the network added once: use the button if your browser has a wallet extension, or enter these settings by hand.
Network settings
- Network name
- Parallax
- RPC URL
- https://rpc.parallaxprotocol.org
- Chain ID
- 2110
- Currency symbol
- LAX
- Block explorer
- https://explorer.parallaxprotocol.org
On mobile, open your wallet's network settings and look for “Add network” or “Custom network”, then fill in the fields above.
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Get some LAX
Earn it by mining, buy it from someone who has it, or ask to be paid in it.
Mine it
Point a GPU at the network with Hashwarp or SRBMiner-Multi, solo or through a pool. Newly mined LAX becomes spendable after 100 blocks, about 17 hours.
Buy it
LAX trades on a handful of exchanges. Withdraw to your own wallet afterwards: coins left on an exchange are in the exchange's custody.
Or simply get paid in it: anyone can send LAX to your address.
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Use it
Your wallet handles the details. Here is what to expect.
Receive
Share your address or its QR code. The payment shows as pending, then confirmed once it's in a block.
Send
Paste the address, enter the amount and review the fee. Check the address twice: transactions can't be reversed.
Look it up
Paste any address or transaction hash into the block explorer to see its status and confirmations.
Allow ten minutes
Blocks come about every ten minutes. Wait for one or two confirmations on small amounts, six on large ones.
An honest note
The network launched in October 2025 and the merchant ecosystem is young. Few shops take LAX yet. Ask in the community channels to find the ones that do.
For merchants
Accepting Parallax
Accepting LAX takes nothing but an address: no processor, no approval, no chargebacks.
Share an address
Show an address or QR code at checkout. A fresh address per customer keeps your sales from being linked together.
Verify payments yourself
Watch incoming payments on the explorer, or run your own node and rely on no one.
Keep records
Accepting crypto has accounting and tax consequences that depend on where you are.
Tell people
Announce in the community channels that you accept LAX. That's where the people looking to spend it are.