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Verify releases

Checking the SHA256 checksum of a Phoenix Wallet download before installing it.

A checksum is a fingerprint of a file. If your download produces the same SHA256 value as the one published beside it, the file you have is the file that was published.

Commands by platform

Windows PowerShell
Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\<downloaded-file>
macOS Terminal
shasum -a 256 ./<downloaded-file>
Linux Terminal
sha256sum ./<downloaded-file>