How to create a wallet with .near address? Guide for Beginners to NEAR Wallet.

Vikash
3 min readJan 31, 2022

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Heard about NEAR Blockchain? One of the L1 Blockchain that’s one of the best Scaling Solution for ETH with their NIGHTSHADE SHARDING that can scale to 100K TPS (and theoretically there’s no limit) and is Climate Friendly as well as User Friendly and wanna try out their user friendly NEAR WALLET? If yes,Here’s the Guide to create a wallet with .NEAR ADDRESS!

Edit: Checkout New Guide at https://link.medium.com/8QfPYk9Zkrb

  • Click on Get Started.
  • Choose a Security Method to Recover Your Account.
  • If you’re choosing Email as Security Method to Recover your Account, please Do Not Delete the mail containing Recovery Link to Recover your Account as Under Any Circumstance, No One from NEAR can resend this link. AND Please Don’t share this link with anyone.
  • Now FUND your wallet with 0.16 $NEAR or more than 0.16 $NEAR if you want a .near address and creating a NEAR Wallet for first time.
  • Now Click on “Add a Custom Address”
  • Choose a .near address for your wallet.
  • Choose a Security Method to Recover your .near Address Wallet.
  • Now fund it using your existing 64 digits address wallet.
  • Approve the Transaction.
  • Now your .near address should be ready.

Welcome to .near family.

Now stake your $NEAR at https://wallet.near.org/staking by delegating to the active validators with low fees. Check APY and Validator Stats at https://near-staking.com/

Or Liquid Stake your $NEAR at https://metapool.app/ and get stNear which can be used on various DeFi Applications on NEAR and get $META !!

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