Error on trying to send a transaction using XDC Apothem testnet

[rafael-ab]

Hello, guuys, I'm trying to send a transaction using the XDC Apothem testnet but I'm getting this zero address error

Executing this piece of code

const signer = new ethers.Wallet(signerPK ethers.provider);
tx = await signer.sendTransaction({
    to: address,
    value: amount
})

I'm getting this error

Error: invalid address (argument="address", value="xdc0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=address/5.7.0)
    at Logger.makeError (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/logger/src.ts/index.ts:269:28)
    at Logger.throwError (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/logger/src.ts/index.ts:281:20)
    at Logger.throwArgumentError (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/logger/src.ts/index.ts:285:21)
    at getAddress (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/address/src.ts/index.ts:109:16)
    at Formatter.address (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/providers/src.ts/formatter.ts:234:26)
    at Object.miner (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/providers/src.ts/formatter.ts:465:20)
    at Function.Formatter.check (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/providers/src.ts/formatter.ts:450:42)
    at Formatter._block (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/providers/src.ts/formatter.ts:301:34)
    at Formatter.block (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/providers/src.ts/formatter.ts:307:21)
    at EthersProviderWrapper.<anonymous> (/Users/rafael/Documents/project/node_modules/@ethersproject/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts:1836:35) {
  reason: 'invalid address',
  code: 'INVALID_ARGUMENT',
  argument: 'address',
  value: 'xdc0000000000000000000000000000000000000000',
  checkKey: 'miner',
  checkValue: 'xdc0000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
}

any idea on this or someone has been able to send a transaction on this network?
Btw, I'm using hardhat to access to ethers object

[RuslanWing]

The issue is because of address prefix you are using xdc prefix address please change the address prefix to 0x