Wallet Walkthrough

This walkthrough covers going from zero to a first Kaspa transaction. The steps are the same regardless of wallet choice.

1. Pick a wallet

See the Wallets page for options: mobile apps for everyday use, browser extensions for interacting with web apps, hardware wallets for larger amounts kept offline.

2. Create the wallet & protect the seed phrase

New wallets generate a seed phrase (usually 12 or 24 words). This is the most important step:

• The seed phrase is the wallet. Anyone who has it has the funds.
• Write it down on paper. No screenshots, no cloud notes, no typing it into anything except a wallet being restored.
• A lost device is recoverable with the phrase. A lost phrase is not recoverable by anyone.

3. Get a receive address

The wallet will show a receive address:

kaspa:qz0k2...   (mainnet addresses always start with kaspa:)

Addresses are safe to share - an address can only receive, never spend. See the Addresses reference for the format details.

4. Get some KAS

• Buy on an exchange and withdraw to the address.
• Receive from someone else.
• For experimenting without real funds: switch the wallet (or a dev tool) to testnet-10 and use a faucet. Testnet coins have no value.

5. Send a transaction

Enter a recipient address and amount, and send. Two things to note:

• Speed. The transaction is typically included in a block within about a second, and confirmations accumulate at ~10 per second.
• Fees. A standard transaction costs a few hundred thousand sompi - thousandths of a KAS, a tiny fraction of a cent.

6. Look it up

Take the transaction ID from the wallet and look it up in an explorer. That’s the next walkthrough: Explorer Tour.