EVM Smart Accounts

Create spend permission

Changed on Oct 6, 2026

Creates a spend permission for the given smart account address.

post/v2/evm/smart-accounts/{address}/spend-permissions

Request

Base URL: https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform
URL: https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/evm/smart-accounts/{address}/spend-permissions
Auth: HTTP bearer

Path parameters

addressstring required

The address of the Smart Account to create the spend permission for.

Headers

X-Wallet-Authstring required

A JWT signed using your Wallet Secret, encoded in base64. Refer to the Generate Wallet Token section of our Authentication docs for more details on how to generate your Wallet Token.

X-Idempotency-Keystring

An optional string request header for making requests safely retryable. When included, duplicate requests with the same key will return identical responses. Refer to our Idempotency docs for more information on using idempotency keys.

Request body

The network the spend permission is on.

spenderstring required

Entity that can spend account's tokens. Can be either a Smart Account or an EOA.

tokenstring required

ERC-7528 native token address (e.g. "0xEeeeeEeeeEeEeeEeEeEeeEEEeeeeEeeeeeeeEEeE" for native ETH), or an ERC-20 contract address.

allowancestring required

Maximum allowed value to spend, in atomic units for the specified token, within each period.

periodstring required

Time duration for resetting used allowance on a recurring basis (seconds).

startstring required

The start time for this spend permission, in Unix seconds.

endstring required

The expiration time for this spend permission, in Unix seconds.

saltstring

An arbitrary salt to differentiate unique spend permissions with otherwise identical data.

extraDatastring

Arbitrary data to include in the permission.

paymasterUrlstring uri

A valid HTTP or HTTPS URL.

Example request

{
  "network": "base",
  "spender": "0x9Fb909eA400c2b8D99Be292DADf07e63B814527c",
  "token": "0xEeeeeEeeeEeEeeEeEeEeeEEEeeeeEeeeeeeeEEeE",
  "allowance": "1000000000000000000",
  "period": "86400",
  "start": "0",
  "end": "281474976710655",
  "salt": "95959551014433038874972658238091428449162862973207257628575040053304171156143",
  "extraData": "0x",
  "paymasterUrl": "https://example.com"
}

Response

Successfully created spend permission.

The network the user operation is for.

userOpHashstring required

The hash of the user operation. This is not the transaction hash, as a transaction consists of multiple user operations. The user operation hash is the hash of this particular user operation which gets signed by the owner of the Smart Account.

The status of the user operation.

transactionHashstring

The hash of the transaction that included this particular user operation. This gets set after the user operation is broadcasted and the transaction is included in a block.

expiresAtstring date-time

The timestamp at which the prepared user operation expires.

Example response

{
  "network": "base",
  "userOpHash": "0x1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef",
  "calls": [
    {
      "to": "0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48",
      "value": "0",
      "data": "0xa9059cbb000000000000000000000000fc807d1be4997e5c7b33e4d8d57e60c5b0f02b1a0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000064"
    },
    {
      "to": "0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c13d831ec7",
      "value": "1000000000000000",
      "data": "0x"
    }
  ],
  "status": "pending",
  "transactionHash": "0x0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
  "receipts": [
    {
      "revert": {
        "data": "0x123",
        "message": "reason for failure"
      },
      "blockHash": "0x386544b58930c0ec9e8f3ed09fb4cdb76b9ae0a1a37ddcacebe3925b57978e65",
      "blockNumber": 29338819,
      "gasUsed": "100000"
    }
  ],
  "expiresAt": "2025-03-25T12:00:00Z"
}

Changes

Oct 6, 2026156440e9f8df Revision changes
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Sep 25, 2026229ed860a74b Revision changes
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