By following this guide, you will be able to make a custom NANO currency address, known as a vanity address, using both the processor and graphics card of your computer. Custom addresses are functionally identical to any other randomly generated address, but consist of one or several custom characters of your choice.

Creating a personalized address involves substantial computational power since it’s we will be generating millions of random keys until we find the address we are desire. There are many tools available, mostly run by a web browser and using CPU, but to find your address quicker, you must squeeze every bit of power out of your computer, by utilizing your GPU as well. The difference is enormous, and that means you can use more custom characters without committing to several weeks of generating random keys. For example, an Nvidia RTX 2080 is 37x faster than a 12-thread Intel i7.

In this guide, we will use the tool provided by PlasmaPower on Github, OpenCL, and the use of Windows 10 or Ubuntu. It may work with other OS as well but at this time they remain untested. The guide supports Nvidia and AMD cards, although the current version of the tool may not work with AMD and maybe fixed later. Intel CPUs are not supported, but an integrated Intel GPU will probably not be faster than the CPU anyway. Nano-Vanity is the most rapid tool I have been able to find and will be our go-to for this guide. Nano Vanity is not compiled by default, which means before we can run it, we need to perform some preliminary steps. It is always recommended to build from source for the highest security considerations, compared to downloading .exe files from the Internet, especially when dealing with cryptographic keys.