How to Set-up a MeťaMask Wâllet

An Easy 8 Step Process to Open a Web3 Wallet

“What is this thing?

Why doesn’t it open like a regular page?

I gotta have a little extension?

Ugh.. friggin’ DeFi.”

Welcome to: How to open a MeťaMask Wâllet — 101.

Before we begin it’s important to underscore that the reason people set up a MetaMask wallet is that it plugs into a lot of websites like UniSwap, Sushiswap, OpenSea, or Rarible, and allows you to make transactions in Ethereum-based cryptocurrency. Ethereum’s cryptocurrency is ETH, and the ethereum blockchain hosts hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. MetaMask is the wallet that stores them all.

Self-custody of funds is a major step in wallets and MetaMask is leading the way. From humble beginnings in 2016, MetaMask reached 1 million monthly users in 2020 and built a sleek new mobile app.

MeťaMask Wâllet set-up process can be broken down into 8 steps:

1. Download MetaMask

2. Click Get Started

3. Click Create a Wallet

4. Create a Password

5. Write down seed phrase

6. Enter seed phrase

7. Click “No Thanks” or “I Agree”

8. Click on Account 1

1. Go to metamask.io/download.html select, Chrome / iOS / or Android, and click Download.

So basically you wanna head over to metamask.io/download and select whether you want MetaMask for your Browser (Chrome or Brave), your iPhone, or your Android.

Brave browser is basically a well-filtered Chrome. It’s privacy friendly with ad blocking and VPN services, and crypto-friendly by offering a native token for using the browser. As you can see here, it allows one to download the extension for a Brave browser, without being logged into a Google account (which is nice for privacy).