With Eidoo app, you can manage several accounts, each representing one independent wallet. Through this guide, we will define all the features and the tricks to efficiently manage accounts on Eidoo. Let’s start!
First of all, let’s talk about seed, accounts and wallets as it will be useful for the next steps.
The seed is a sequence of 12 or 24 words that grant access to one or more accounts. Each account generated with the same seed has a different private key. When restoring the seed, one gains access to all the accounts connected to it; instead, when restoring an account through its private key, one gains access only to the single corresponding account.
To manage the accounts, start from the main menu, and tap on the icon on the top-left corner of the screen (1). Here, you can see these main elements (2):
- A list of the accounts (that you have already created or imported on Eidoo). Here, a tick will indicate the account you are currently using, and each account name is followed by a label that indicates the way it was added.
- Create new account. This option allows you to create a new account using your current seed (the one that you created or imported when you first opened the app). It is possible to restore it through the seed or through its private key, so be sure to already have a backup so you don't risk to lose your funds.
- Import account. Through this option, you can import on Eidoo one or more accounts to use them or simply to watch them. Three options are available:
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- Seed: you can enter a seed and then select the accounts associated with it
- Private key: choose this option to import one single account through its private key. You can either write it, paste it or scan the QR code representing it
- Watch only: this feature allows you to import any address in “watch only” mode, meaning that you can see it and connect it to any DApp as if it was yours, but that you cannot approve transactions with it. This feature is useful for example to see how it feels to be a whale, to monitor a wallet, to check NFT collections, or to keep an eye on your cold storage without the risk of losing funds for being hacked.
- Connect Hardware Wallet. This option allows you to import your Ledger Nano X or your GRID+ Lattice. Currently Eidoo app is not compatible with Ledger Nano S or other non-bluetooth devices.
💡 Pro tip: scroll from right to left to edit the name of the account or to remove it from Eidoo (in the latter case, be sure to have a backup of it, read more about it here)
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