Your First Swap, Step by Step
A complete walkthrough of doing a real swap into your own wallet — and testing small first.
#wallets
19 lessons with this tag.
Hardware Wallets with Monero
How hardware wallets keep your keys offline, which ones work with Monero, and how they fit alongside a hardware node.
Monero Hardware: An Overview
The hardware that powers self-sovereign Monero — node appliances, single-board computers, and hardware wallets — and which you actually need.
Backups & Recovery
How to back up properly and confidently restore your wallet when you need to.
Passphrases & Extra Protection
Adding an optional passphrase for an extra layer, and the trade-offs to understand.
Securing Your Seed
Practical ways to back up and protect your 25-word seed against loss, theft and disaster.
The Self-Custody Mindset
Why 'not your keys, not your coins' is the foundation of holding Monero — and the responsibility it brings.
Hardware & Cold Storage
Keeping keys offline with hardware wallets and cold-storage workflows.
Multisig in Depth
How Monero multisig works, when to use it, and its trade-offs.
What Is Coin Control?
Understanding outputs in Monero and why controlling which ones you spend matters.
Subaddresses & Accounts
Organizing funds with accounts and subaddresses for privacy and bookkeeping.
Wallet Security Basics
The handful of habits that keep your Monero safe from day one.
Sending Monero
How to send XMR: addresses, amounts, fees, priority and confirming it arrived.
Receiving Monero & Addresses
Primary addresses, subaddresses and integrated addresses — how to receive privately.
Create Your First Wallet
A step-by-step walkthrough of creating a Monero wallet and verifying your backup.
Your Seed Phrase (25 Words)
What Monero's 25-word mnemonic is, how it backs up your whole wallet, and how to store it safely.
Public & Private Keys in Monero
Monero's unusual two-key design: spend keys and view keys, and what each one can do.
Types of Monero Wallets
Official GUI/CLI, Feather, Cake, Monerujo and hardware wallets — which to pick and why.
What Is a Crypto Wallet?
A wallet doesn't hold coins — it holds keys. The mental model that makes everything else click.