A wallet is the app that lets you hold, send, and receive Malairte. It is more like a keychain than a bank account — it holds the keys that prove the coins on the blockchain belong to you. The coins themselves never leave the blockchain. Setting up your first wallet is the most important moment in your crypto journey, so take your time.
Before you start
- Use a computer you trust and that has up-to-date antivirus.
- Have a pen and a piece of paper ready. Yes, real paper.
- Pick a quiet half-hour where no one is looking over your shoulder.
Step one: download the official wallet
Always download the Malairte wallet from the official website. Bookmark the page once you find it, and never click wallet links from emails or social media posts. Fake wallets are one of the most common scams.
Step two: create a new wallet
Open the wallet app and choose Create new wallet. The app will generate a recovery phrase for you. This is a list of 12 or 24 ordinary English words. Those words are the master key to your coins. Anyone who has them can take everything.
Step three: write the recovery phrase down
Write the words on paper, in order, slowly and clearly. Double-check each word. Do not photograph it. Do not type it into your phone. Do not paste it into a notes app or a cloud document. Paper, in a safe place at home, is genuinely safer than the cloud.
Step four: confirm the phrase
The wallet will ask you to re-enter some of the words to prove you wrote them down. This step exists to catch mistakes now, while they can still be fixed.
Step five: set a strong password
This password protects the wallet on this device. It is not the same as the recovery phrase. Pick something long and memorable, and write it down separately if you need to.
That is it. Your wallet now has an address — a long string of letters and numbers — that you can share when someone wants to send you Malairte. The address is safe to share. The recovery phrase is not.