Coinbase Extension**
Coinbase Extension enhances your crypto experience by providing seamless integration, secure authentication, multi-currency portfolio management, efficient transaction handling, real-time price tracking, and a range of features designed to empower your control over digital assets directly from your browser.
Create a new wallet
First, download the mobile app if you haven’t already.
Step 1: Select “Create a new wallet”.
Step 2: Review and accept the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Step 3: Pick your username and set your privacy preferences. This is how other Wallet users can find you and send you payments.
Step 4: Choose your preferred security method, biometrics or a passcode. We recommend biometric authentication.
Step 5: Backup your recovery phrase. Your recovery phrase is the key to your wallet. Keep this safe, as this is the key to access your wallet and Coinbase cannot recover this phrase for you
Select “Backup to cloud” or “Backup manually”. If backing up to the cloud, you’ll be asked to set a password to encrypt your backup. Like your recovery phrase, keep this password safe, as Coinbase cannot recover it for you.
If you choose to “backup manually”, your recovery phrase will be displayed for you to write down, or to copy and paste in a secure location.
Now, confirm the first and last words of your recovery phrase to confirm your backup.
Step 6: All done - your Coinbase Wallet is ready!
Import or recover an existing wallet
Jump to a wallet that you’d like to import from:
In order to import an existing wallet, you must be able to access the wallet’s recovery phrase.
Most wallets have a 12 word recovery phrase, which acts as the key to your wallet. These words must be kept safe. No wallet provider, including Coinbase, can recover this 12 word recovery phrase for you.
Recovery phrases are portable, enabling you to transfer your wallet from one self-custody wallet provider to another. With Coinbase Wallet, you can import any wallet that you may have created with another provider such as MetaMask, Trust Wallet, and others. You can also recover your existing Coinbase Wallet using a cloud backup or your recovery phrase.
When you import an existing wallet using your recovery phrase into Coinbase Wallet, you will be able to continue using your wallet across multiple providers, and any transactions you make will show up in your wallet across all of your wallet providers.
While the recovery phrase is portable, the app passcode and/or cloud backup password that you set for your wallet is provider-specific and will not be ported over to another provider. Like recovery phrases, passcodes and passwords cannot be recovered by any wallet provider, including Coinbase Wallet.
How to import your MetaMask Wallet into Coinbase Wallet
Step 1: Install the Coinbase Wallet mobile app
Step 2: Open the MetaMask mobile app or browser extension. Enter in your password to access your wallet if prompted.
Step 3: Click on the menu icon on the top left hand corner of the mobile app, or the top right hand corner in the extension, and navigate to Settings. From the list, click on the “Security & Privacy” option, and tap on “Reveal Secret Recovery Phrase”. Enter in your password to continue
Step 4: Copy down your Secret Recovery Phrase. This should be 12 words. Keep this safe.
Step 5: Open the Coinbase Wallet app, and select “I already have a wallet”. Then tap “Restore with Recovery Phrase”
Step 6: Enter in the Secret Recovery Phrase that you copied down on Step 5. This should be 12 words. Keep this safe, as this is the key to access your wallet and Coinbase cannot recover this phrase for you
Step 7: Select a Wallet username and set your privacy preferences
Step 8: Choose your preferred security method: biometric authentication or a passcode. Keep your passcode safe, as Coinbase cannot recover this for you
Step 9: All done - your MetaMask wallet has been imported into Coinbase Wallet, and is ready to use!
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