If you’re a Solana user and Sollet was your go to wallet, then you mast have noticed that it’s been not working since last week. The wallet just disappeared out of nowhere without any notification to its users, their website is gone and twitter account is deleted as well. And for some reason, it seems like no one is talking about. So, If you are happen to be one of the Sollet user, and your funds were in the wallet, then don’t panic about it. You can access funds as long as, you have your 24 words key phrase saved somewhere, you can can access those funds back. In this post, you will read how you can access them with the help of other Solana wallet.
First of all, to access funds you have to install/download a new wallet. There are many wallets present like Phantom, solflare, slope etc. These are some of the most commonly used wallets across Solana ecosystem and these wallets support 24 words key phrase that you can use to retrieve your funds. It’s not must to use only Phantom wallet as there are many others, however Phantom is the most popular one in the list and it has its own positive points that makes it stand out from the others. So in this post, you will read about accessing funds back using Phantom wallet.
Why Phantom Wallet?
- It is secure and user friendly.
- It has a simple layout which makes it easier to use.
- You can send, receive, swap token there.
- You can store your NFTs there.
- It supports stacking within it.
- It supports Ledger.
- Phantom provides Bio-metric authentication.
- It doesn’t track personal information, etc
How to Use Phantom Wallet to retrieve funds
Phantom supports multiple devices and operating systems. You can install it on your computer, android phone or your iOS device.
To download it, go to there official website “phantom.app”, make sure you double check the website address, even triple check it, or you can go to there official twitter page check the website address there. It’s better to be safe than sorry. So, after making sure you are downloading from the right source. Grab your seed phrase and get ready!
Here is step by step process
- Download the Phantom Wallet from there official website.
2. Open Phantom Wallet, then Click on I already have a wallet
3. Click on “I have a 24-word recovery phrase” link. It’s at the bottom and above Import Wallet button.
4. You’re almost there, Now enter your 24-word recovery phrase and Click on Import Wallet
That is all you have to do if you are going to recover your funds through Phantom wallet. However, in case you don’t have your recovery phrase stored somewhere, then unfortunately there is no way you can retrieve your funds.
To conclude this, If you want to access your tokens, like you were accessing using Sollet then you will have install a new wallet. Then you will have to enter your recovery phrase to import your wallet.
Remember these Key Points:
- Make sure you download from the official website.
- If you choose to google, make sure you read the web URL, sometimes fake ones are also up there.
- You can go to there official twitter page and match the URL and be sure.
- Slope, Solflare, Phantom are some of the commonly used wallet.
- You can always switch to another wallet.
