How to Create a Polkadot-js Wallet in 3 Mins.srt

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hey everybody i'm brett glodney a

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developer at akala and today i'm going

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to be showing you how to set up a kusama

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or polka dot address using the polka dot

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js extension

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so i'm going to head down here and open

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up chrome

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and we're going to head over to the

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polkadot.js.org

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and click on the extension link so i'm

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going to be downloading it for chrome if

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you're down if you have firefox download

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it for firefox and if you have brave you

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can use the chrome download as well

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so i already have it so i'm gonna head

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over to this um

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puzzle piece in the top right corner

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click pin

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and i'm gonna open it up i understand

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and now we're gonna see this screen so

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to add an account for the first time

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we're going to want to click the plus

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sign in the middle of this circle

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and we're going to see this 12 word

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mnemonic seed the mnemonic seed can be

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used to recover your account in case you

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ever lose your device or

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your computer but it can also be used by

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anybody

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to get full access to your account so

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we're going to want to write it down and

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save it in a safe place

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and now i'm going to click i have saved

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my mnemonic seed safely and click next

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steps

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so now we have this screen uh we see

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this drop down that says

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allow use on any chain if we click it

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we'll see a bunch of different

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chains here if you're creating a polka

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dot address you'd want to click polka

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dot relay chain

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and you'll see that the address in the

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top just changed to the polka dot format

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and if you're making kusama account you

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want to click kusama relay chain

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and you'll see that the address changes

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again to the kusama format

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today i'm going to make a polka dot

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account now we're going to want to give

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the account a descriptive name and call

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it

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my account now we want to give this

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account a password

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the password is what you're going to

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need to input every single time you want

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to use this account to make a

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transaction

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so you're going to want to make it

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something that's secure but something

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you're going to remember

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so i'm going to put a password in right

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now

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and click add this account with the

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generated seed

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so now we see the account in our

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extension with the polka dot flag up

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here telling us that this is a polka dot

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account

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and the polka dot address so let's head

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back over to polkadot.js.org

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and click the apps wallet link

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you'll notice that we got this

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authorized page this will show up the

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first time you ever go to a site that's

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trying to request

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access to your extension it gives you

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information about what the site is what

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the

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url is and just giving you a fair

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warning that you should

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only approve applications that you are

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familiar with and that you understand

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it's a good idea to check the url that

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it's showing you that the request is

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from

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to make sure it's actually the url that

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you're expecting so

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everything here looks good so we're

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gonna click yes allow this application

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access

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and now we see the polka dot wallet

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so if i head over to accounts we'll see

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that my extension is in

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the wallet i can see my balance and i

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can send transactions from here

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uh so that yup that's it that's all you

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need to do to set up a polka dot account

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and now you can use your extension on

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all the different uh dapps out there

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that have polka dot compatibility thanks

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for watching