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# Using Wallets for Key Management

Pantheon doesn't support key management inside the client. Use:

* [EthSigner](http://docs.ethsigner.pegasys.tech/en/latest/) with Pantheon to provide access to your key store and sign transactions.  

* Third-party tools (for example, [MetaMask](https://metamask.io/) and [web3j](https://web3j.io/)) for creating accounts. 

In Pantheon, you can use the JSON-RPC methods:

 * [eth_getBalance](../Reference/Pantheon-API-Methods.md#eth_getbalance) to obtain the account balance
 * [eth_sendRawTransaction](../Reference/Pantheon-API-Methods.md#eth_sendrawtransaction) to transfer ether or create and interact with contracts (for more information, refer to [Transactions](Transactions/Transactions.md#transactions)).  
 
!!! tip 
    [EthSigner](http://docs.ethsigner.pegasys.tech/en/latest/) implements [`eth_sendTransaction`](http://docs.ethsigner.pegasys.tech/en/latest/Using-EthSigner#eth_sendTransaction).