Get started.

Everything on teia.cafe (and teia.art) runs on a Tezos wallet instead of an account - no databases, no logins. There is no sign-up and no password that is stored anywhere - you bring a wallet, and that wallet is your identity everywhere on the site, and your identity everywhere in the world. (Your wallet and keys are unique only to you.)

Some suggestions to help you get started, including a widget to test the synchronization process.

Check your wallet

Test your wallet

Press the button and pick your wallet. It only says hello - there is nothing to sign, nothing to approve, and it costs nothing. If your address appears, your wallet is set up correctly.

No wallet yet? Start with one of the guides below.

Setting one up

Kukai runs on a web page, so it is the shortest path from nothing to a working wallet. Good if you want to be up and running in a few minutes. wallet.kukai.app

Open wallet.kukai.appCheck the address bar before you type anything. Wallet sites are a favourite target for lookalike domains, and no one can undo a payment made from a fake one.
Create a walletKukai offers a sign-in with an existing account (Google, Twitter, Reddit) or a full wallet of your own. The social option is quicker to start; the full wallet is yours alone and is the one to pick if you plan to hold anything of value.
Write the recovery phrase on paperIf you made a full wallet you will be shown a list of words. That list is the wallet. Anyone holding it holds your funds, and nobody - not Kukai, not teia.cafe - can recover it for you. Write it down offline and keep it somewhere you would keep a passport.
Put some XTZ in itSend tez from an exchange to your new address, which starts with tz1. See the Exchanges tab for how that works.
Come back and press Test my walletChoose Kukai in the list that appears, approve the connection, and your address should show up at the top of this page.

Three rules worth keeping

Your recovery phrase is the wallet. Not a password, not a backup code - the words themselves are the money. Nobody can reissue them, and anyone who reads them owns everything in the wallet. Written on paper, offline, is still the best answer.

Nobody legitimate will ever ask for it. Not teia.cafe, not the Teia DAO, not a helpful stranger in a Discord. Every single person who asks is stealing from you, without exception.

Read what you are signing. Connecting a wallet is harmless - it shares an address and nothing more, which is all the check above does. Signing is the part that can move things. A wallet that asks you to sign when you only clicked connect is worth backing out of.