MoonPay is highly committed to security. For this reason, whenever sensitive information such as emails or wallet addresses are transmitted to the widget, you are required to use the signature parameter, otherwise, the MoonPay widget will not load. This measure makes it more difficult for unauthorized third parties to misuse the the widget's pre-fill feature.

A signed URL helps limit access from unauthorized third parties by providing limited permissions and time to make a request. Passing the signature parameter is mandatory if you're using the walletAddress or walletAddresses parameter and it must be appended at the end of the URL. If your widget URL contains sensitive information, we strongly recommend using the signature parameter.

You can generate a signature of the URL server-side and append it to the end of the URL. If the signature is provided, we'll check the validity of the query string to make sure it has not been altered. If the signature is invalid for any reason the MoonPay widget will fail to load.

How to sign URLs

Follow these steps for signing URLs:

1. Send your widget URL to your backend server.
2. Generate the signature using the secret key found in your MoonPay dashboard.

• Use your own code to generate signatures and sign URLs
• Alternatively, use our Node SDK to generate signatures, sign URLs, and validate signatures.

3. Return either the signature or entire signed URL.

• If using a SDK, return the signature and use updateSignature. Do not encode the signature, as the SDK handles this.
• If using a URL-based integration, return the entire signed URL. Ensure that the value of signature and other parameters are URL-encoded.

4. Show the widget using the SDK or URL.

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Returning the signature vs entire signed URL

Integrations using an SDK: Return the signature by itself and use updateSignature

Integrations using URLs: Return the entire signed URL

How to generate signatures

1. Create an HMAC (Hash-Based Message Authentication Code) using the SHA-256 hash function.
   1. Use your secret API key as the key and the original URL's query string as the message.
2. For URL-based integrations, make sure all query parameter values are URL-encoded before creating the signature.

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All query parameter values (not the entire query string) need to be URL-encoded before generating the signature in order for it to be valid.

Code examples

Integrations using an SDK

Integrations using a web or mobile SDK should calculate the signature, then return the signature by itself, not URL-encoded.

More details about signing with each SDK:

import crypto from 'crypto';

const secretKey = 'sk_test_key';  // Use your secret key

const generateSignature = (url) => {
  const signature = crypto
    .createHmac('sha256', secretKey)
    .update(new URL(url).search) // Use the query string part of the URL
    .digest('base64'); // Convert the result to a base64 string

  console.log(signature) // Print the signature
  return signature // Return the signature
};

<?php
$host = 'https://buy-sandbox.moonpay.com';  // Base URL
$query = '?apiKey=pk_test_key&currencyCode=eth&walletAddress=0xde0b295669a9fd93d5f28d9ec85e40f4cb697bae';  // Query parameters

$secretKey = 'sk_test_key';  // Your secret key

// Create the HMAC SHA-256 hash and encode it in base64
$signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha256', $query, $secretKey, true));

echo $signature;  // Print the signature
?>

Integrations using URLs

Integrations generating widget URLs should calculate the signature, URL-encode the signature, then return the whole signed URL.

import crypto from 'crypto';

const originalUrl = 'https://buy-sandbox.moonpay.com?apiKey=pk_test_key&currencyCode=eth&walletAddress=0xde0b295669a9fd93d5f28d9ec85e40f4cb697bae';

const signature = crypto
  .createHmac('sha256', 'sk_test_key')  // Use your secret key
  .update(new URL(originalUrl).search)  // Use the query string part of the URL
  .digest('base64');  // Convert the result to a base64 string

const urlWithSignature = `${originalUrl}&signature=${encodeURIComponent(signature)}`;  // Add the signature to the URL

console.log(urlWithSignature);  // Print the signed URL

<?php
$host = 'https://buy-sandbox.moonpay.com';  // Base URL
$query = '?apiKey=pk_test_key&currencyCode=eth&walletAddress=0xde0b295669a9fd93d5f28d9ec85e40f4cb697bae';  // Query parameters

$secretKey = 'sk_test_key';  // Your secret key

// Create the HMAC SHA-256 hash and encode it in base64
$signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha256', $query, $secretKey, true));

// URL encode the signature
$encodedSignature = urlencode($signature);

// Combine the base URL, query parameters, and the signature
$signedUrl = $host . $query . "&signature=" . $encodedSignature;

echo $signedUrl;  // Print the signed URL
?>

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Attention

The API gateway of some cloud providers change your parameter's order, resulting in a failed signature validation.