Guide: Use w3ndi to connect your digital addresses to w3n by KILT, and use it in Nova Wallet

Learn how to aggregate all your digital wallet addresses under one web3name and simplify crypto transactions in Nova.

Apillon

Aug 24, 2023 • 5 min read

Step 1: Create a DID and a w3n
Step 2: Add wallets in w3ndi
Step 3: Deploy
Step 4: Use w3n in Nova Wallet

Apillon just released w3ndi, an app that lets you link your self-sovereign digital identity by KILT with your digital wallet addresses under one roof — or, rather, your web3name.

Here is how to do it step by step.

Step 1: Create a DID and a w3n

First things first, you need a digital identity by KILT Protocol, a DID, and a web3name. Without those things, you can’t use w3ndi nor browse by w3n in Nova Wallet.

web3name is a custom, human-readable name you create to represent your decentralized identifier (DID), a long string of alphanumeric characters.

If you don’t have a digital identity by KILT yet, install the Sporran wallet and set up your DID and w3n.

🔎 Learn more about Sporran wallet and download it 👉 here.
🔎 Learn more about how to get a DID by KILT 👉 here.
🔎 Learn more about web3names by KILT 👉 here.

Once you have your digital identity by KILT in place, start adding your digital wallets and linking them to your w3n.

Step 2: Add wallets in w3ndi

Go to w3ndi.apillon.io and click the “Enter now” button.

Next, you’re prompted to connect with your Sporran wallet — either directly via your browser extension or by entering your mnemonic phrase. In this guide, we’ll go with wallet extension.

Select the account you’d like to connect and click “Connect Sporran”.

In case your account in not yet linked to your DID, you’ll be prompted to do so. Click “Link account”, authorize linking in your Sporran wallet, and sign the transaction using your Sporran password.

Once you’re in, start adding wallets to your DID and w3n.

Click “Add new wallet”.

In the pop-up window, select the chain of your wallet address. Next, add a tag to differentiate it from others quickly, for example, “Private”, “Business”, “Charity”, “Friends & family”, etc.

Provide the wallet address either manually or by connecting your wallet via a browser extension.

1 Enter address manually

Toggle “Type address”. Type in — or, rather, copy-paste — your wallet address. If you want it to be used on multiple chains, click the checkbox and choose the ones you want to support.

2 Connect wallet directly

You can also provide a wallet address by connecting a wallet via browser extensions. Select the chain your wallet is on, and toggle “Connect wallet”. Here, too, you can choose to use the address on multiple chains. Click “Connect wallet” again, and in a new pop-up, select the chosen wallet and confirm linking in the wallet extension window.

Lastly, click “Save” or “Save and add another” to aggregate more addresses to your w3n.

Step 3: Deploy

Now, you can see an index of wallet addresses you linked to your w3n, together with information about the chain they operate on, tag, and their status — currently undeployed.

To make them active, inscribed on-chain, and pinned on IPFS via Crust, click “Save and deploy”.

As the linkage between your w3n and wallet addresses gets deployed on-chain, w3ndi passes three steps:

First, it generates an IPFS file.
Next, it uploads it to IPFS, making your w3ndi data stored in a decentralized way and thus unstoppable.
Lastly, it saves the new address configuration so that they link to your w3n.

To finish the process, authorize it by signing with your Sporran wallet. Click “Sign” and “Sign the transaction” again.

Once done, you will see the status of addresses update to “Deployed”.

That’s it! Your w3n by KILT is now linked to an index of your digital wallet addresses, and you can use it in Nova Wallet to send or receive funds easily.

Step 4: Use w3n in Nova Wallet

Now, you can transfer digital assets simply by finding the contact’s address via their w3n.

Click “Send”, and choose the asset and network.

In the Recipient field, type in “w3n:[recipient’s w3n]”.

Choose the address you want to send to — the easiest way is to refer to tags, such as “friends and family”, “primary”, etc.

Enter the amount of assets you wish to transfer, and click “Continue”.

As easy as that. The w3ndi feature will save you the time and hassle of copy-pasting lengthy addresses in Nova.

Let us know how you find the new feature in Nova Wallet and share the news about w3ndi. 🚀

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