Get Started with a Wallet
Most of teia.cafe runs on a Tezos wallet. It is your ID and your record-keeper in one: you sign in with it, your reports and credit balances are saved to it, and what you do on-chain is recorded under its address, so your activity stays yours to keep and to check. Signing in is a wallet message, without a password or payment.
teia.cafe’s credit system, which is how we charge for reports and lookups, runs separately from the blockchain. Key transactions - buying credits, minting a work, registering its license, listing it for sale, creating a curation or sending an on-chain message - ask you to approve them in the wallet of your choice before anything happens.
Many of the art features borrow TEIA’s own smart contracts, so what you mint, license, list or curate here also appears on teia.art. For transparency, each one is listed with its address in our list of shared, community-owned contracts.
New wallet set-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 walletFollow Kukai’s new-wallet guide to create a wallet with a recovery phrase. Kukai also offers DirectAuth; review its recovery options if you choose that route.
- 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.
- Come back and log inPress Login at the top of the page, choose Kukai, then review and sign the teia.cafe login message. Your address appears once sign-in succeeds. This is not a transaction.
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.
This platform asks you to sign a login message to prove wallet ownership. That message does not authorize a payment or cost a network fee. Check the site and message before signing. A transaction is a separate request: review its destination, amount and fees before you approve it.
Once you’re ready
Press Login at the top of any page, choose your wallet and sign the login message. From there, every tool and art feature on the front page works with the same wallet.