Think of cardano-wallet
as Daedalus, it can only manage locally created wallets and their addresses and transactions.
If you want to interact with the blockchain as a whole you should be using cardano-cli
(I used Lars' Lobster Challenge address as an example instead to have some outputs):
$ cardano-cli address info --address addr1w8433zk2shufk42hn4x7zznjjuqwwyfmxffcjszw5l2ulesdt3jff
{
"address": "addr1w8433zk2shufk42hn4x7zznjjuqwwyfmxffcjszw5l2ulesdt3jff",
"base16": "71eb188aca85f89b55579d4de10a729700e7113b325389404ea7d5cfe6",
"type": "payment",
"encoding": "bech32",
"era": "shelley"
}
- Get ADA/tokens balance and Plutus stuff
$ cardano-cli query utxo --mainnet --address addr1w8433zk2shufk42hn4x7zznjjuqwwyfmxffcjszw5l2ulesdt3jff
TxHash TxIx Amount
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
319752b414804415988fb1165358e69f46095a9e9b1c01ef0830c182dc57f78b 0 1000000 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone
4c34feb07e32aa4855a494306aefcf16743356811914d680e112a6ec12214455 0 1000000 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone
63091c70aa6f8b402faffd24909d93c7721cbdced7094b62e52d157da8fb44e4 0 5000000 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone
67d318fabdd9905033bfe6156c6595716c952d496cabb9d98773c948974780ec 0 1000000 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone
cb7b44500fc9145cf5b13a533bc7616eb219b7a080bc49d7ce6204c06b351733 0 1000000 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone
cf944108d7130a8d53925ff9903a254d5133d5978b7e69e04c67d5b8776a6fb2 1 2034438 lovelace + 1 cc7888851f0f5aa64c136e0c8fb251e9702f3f6c9efcf3a60a54f419.LobsterNFT + 522 fda1b6b487bee2e7f64ecf24d24b1224342484c0195ee1b7b943db50.LobsterCounter + 501 fda1b6b487bee2e7f64ecf24d24b1224342484c0195ee1b7b943db50.LobsterVotes + TxOutDatumHash ScriptDataInAlonzoEra "45b0cfc220ceec5b7c1c62c4d4193d38e4eba48e8815729ce75f9c0ab0e4c1c0"
db250ed5eb4454843af19dea7ca84a8adda170fc88284e7e5e2381b41dab5f9b 1 30768137 lovelace + TxOutDatumHashNone