Create Your Wallet On Plug

The first time you click on the Plug icon in the top right corner of your browser, you will be brought to a browser page where you can import an existing wallet or create a new one. We’re going to create a new one:

Set Your Account’s Password Enter a secure password. This password is important to write down and will be needed when you sign into the Plug extension.

You will be required to enter your password on three different occasions — the first time you log in to Plug, after manually locking your wallet in Plug (password-protects it), and after an extended period of inactivity:

Revealing & Storing Your Secret Recovery Phrase After entering a valid password, you will be brought to a page that has your ‘Secret Recovery Phrase’. Your Secret Recovery Phrase will be used anytime you want to import/recover your wallet in Plug. Copy your Secret Recovery Phrase down somewhere safe and do not lose it or share it with anyone.

The technical name for your Secret Recovery Phrase is a mnemonic. Your mnemonic phrase, run through the cryptographic hash function, will return the private key associated with your Principal ID. Your private key is what allows you to ‘approve’ transactions, like sending coins, on the Internet Computer.

To confirm you’ve saved your mnemonic somewhere secure, click the small back below the mnemonic field. This will reveal the “Continue” button.

Congratulations, you’ve got an account in Plug!

If you click the extension again and open your new wallet, you will see the Tokens, Assets, and Apps tab, and be able to configure your wallet’s name and picture in settings.