Your Checker Wallet

Learn how to use your Checker Wallet

Checker Wallet

The Checker App ships with an in-built FIL wallet which you set up on installation. To avoid any confusion when you first start Checker, you will not need to create a seed phrase, understand key-pairs or hash functions. When you create your Checker wallet, you will auto-generate a seed phrase and key-pair so that you can start earning scheduled rewards within a few clicks.

As more subnets run on Checker, the team is open to supporting other tokens. By running the Filecoin Spark subnet, you will start receiving payouts in FIL for your contributions. You can then send FIL from your Checker wallet to another destination FIL wallet address.

Accessing your Seed Phrase

The wallet seed phrase you create during onboarding is stored in a secure place, encrypted by your operating system. In order to back it up or move it to a different machine, here’s how to access your seed phrase.

macOS

1. Open Keychain Access (Applications → Utilities).
2. Type filecoin-station-wallet-0x in the search box.
3. Double click the matching item.
4. Check Show password.
5. Enter your password.
6. Click Allow.
7. Copy the revealed seed phrase.

Windows

1. Open Credential Manager Control panel (type credential manager in the search box on the taskbar).
2. Select Windows Credentials.
3. Click on filecoin-station-wallet-0x/seed under Generic Credentials.
4. Click Show password.
1. If this action isn’t available, ensure you have both a Password and a PIN set up.
5. Copy the revealed seed phrase.

GNU/Linux

1. Install libsecret.
2. Run secret-tool lookup filecoin-station-wallet-0x seed.
3. Copy the revealed seed phrase.

Restoring the Wallet from a Seed Phrase

Follow these steps to restore the built-in wallet from a seed phrase you backed up before:

1. Ensure the Checker Desktop app is not running.
2. Find the secure place where Checker Desktop keeps the seed phrase using the instructions above.
3. Overwrite the seed phrase stored in that secure place with the seed phrase you want to restore the wallet from.
4. Start the app.

In the future, we want to implement a more user-friendly solution; see the GitHub issue filecoin-station/desktop#1727.

On this page

• Your Checker Wallet
• Checker Wallet
• Accessing your Seed Phrase
• macOS
• Windows
• GNU/Linux
• Restoring the Wallet from a Seed Phrase