How to Create a New Wallet on Emerald With a 24 Word Secret Phrase
1. Start by downloading Emerald Wallet.
Download it here and open it: https://emerald.cash/download
2. When you open Emerald for the first time, the first thing you need to do is to set a global key or password for your Emerald Wallet. This is to use the app in general and is necessary for different functions within Emerald Wallet.
3. Once you established your 8 character password press "CREATE".
4. In the next screen, you will see a welcome message and then you need to create your first wallet. Press the button "CREATE FIRST WALLET".
5. Of the six options to create wallets, select the second one which says "Create new seed".
6. The next step is to give a name or label to your wallet, as you can have several wallets, so it is easier to identify them! This is done in the blank space that says "Label". Press "NEXT".
7. Now you are ready to create your secret 24 word phrase. Press "GENERATE PHRASE".
8. In the next step you will see the newly created 24 words of your secret or mnemonic phrase.
9. IMPORTANT: Write down on paper these 24 words. They are the backup to your accounts of this wallet and will be used to generate your same accounts again in case you lose your device!
10. Once you wrote down the 24 words in order, Emerald Wallet will ask you to enter them back. Enter the 24 words back again on the app IN THE SAME ORDER to make sure you got them right! Once you entered back the 24 words of your mnemonic phrase in order press the "CONFIRM" button.
11. In the next step you will have to enter the global password.
12. In the next step, you can select what cryptocurrencies you want to manage in this particular wallet. We support three blockchain for now, and those are Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ethereum Classic. Select the coins you want to manage in this wallet by enabling them. then, press "NEXT".
13. In the next step, Emerald will show you something called an HD Path for each coin in your wallet. This may be important to use the same paths if in the future you need to generate your accounts again. Here, you only need to press "NEXT" to create your accounts.
14. SUCCESS!! Your wallet has been created! Press "OPEN WALLET" to see your accounts.
15. As you can see Emerald Wallet supports $ETH, $DAI, $USDC, $USDT, $WETH, $ETC and $BTC.
Thank you for following this tutorial!