NB: This guide is for total beginners who have never interacted with “NFTs”/“cryptocurrency” before.
First of all, well done! The whole concept of “web3”/“crypto”/<made up acronym here> is a scam and it pains me as an investor that Nothing went down this route instead of fully focusing on their real products. I’ve already talked about it here though, so I won’t derail this topic.
Like you, this was the first time I had to interact with this nonsense but having a computer science / cryptography background made it easier for me to setup. So, I present to you what I think is the easiest way to see your NFT in a mobile wallet.
First, you don’t actually need a mobile wallet. Despite the mentions of “MetaMask”, “OpenSea” and other useless companies you’ll see in the main thread, if you went the route of registering on https://dots.nothing.tech by selecting the “I don’t have a wallet” option and then verifying your email via WalletConnect, then the wallet was already created for you. To see the public key:
- Go to https://dots.nothing.tech
- Scroll down and click “Login with Nothing”
- You should be redirected to https://dots.nothing.tech/collectibles
- Click on the hexadecimal number in the top right, it’ll be of the form “(W) 0x…”
- Click “View Wallet Info”
- You’ll see a dialog showing your public key and can copy it from there.
This public key is also your wallet address. So, for the live event registration (now closed), you could have just put that in and shown the webpage as proof (the above steps work on mobile as well). There wasn’t a need to do anything more.
However, there is still a problem. The above is fine for manual verification, but for automated verification, like the dots-verify channel on discord or premint (the website that was previously being used for event registration), you need to show proof of ownership of the private key associated with your wallet address / public key by signing a message usually.
So, you need to import your private key into a mobile wallet with signing capabilities. Here’s how to do that:
- Follow steps 1 through 5 above.
- Click on “Get Private Key”
- You’ll again have to verify your email similar to when you first registered but should now see another hex number: copy it (this will be exactly 64 digits long, also it is your private key - as the name says don’t share it)
- Go to Play Store and install “AlphaWallet” (the reason for this is it is FOSS and has Polygon support by default, so you don’t need to do the fiddling mentioned in other threads, you’ll see what I mean)
- Click on import wallet
- Go the the private key tab and paste the number copied in step 3
- Click on Settings in the bottom right
- Click on Select Active Networks under “System”
- Enable “Polygon” (optionally, also disable everything else)
- Go back to main Wallet page and you’ll see the Dots NFT under Collectibles -> Polygon
That’s it, you’re finally done. I agree this is much more cumbersome than Nothing just using the existing email list for investors but it is what it is. It should still be much more straightforward than anything else you’ve read in the main thread.
PS: For automated verification, e.g. in discord, always click the “WalletConnect” option: if you’re on mobile, you should be redirected to AlphaWallet automatically. If you’re on desktop, you’ll see a QR code. On the AlphaWallet home page, click the camera icon in the top right and scan it.
If you have any questions, please let me know. Hopefully you found this guide useful if you were still struggling to get set up.
