Create villager account

To set up your villager account, DM me your onchain address (Ethereum).

In case your legal name is different from your public name, let me know. I need your legal name since the personal token is an agreement at its core. Your legal name will only appear in legal documents for my personal token as required by law.

Download a wallet app like MetaMask or the Base app and create an account.

Metamask will generate a set of addresses for you across different blockchains. Find your Ethereum address. In MetaMask, this is shown on the main screen. It will start with 0x78541Fa014f132059f60F8b53df7E0406C6741D0.

In the Base app, your account will have a single address that looks like alice.base.eth, which appears as a username under your display name.

note: the alice.base.eth type names also resolve to a regular addres like 0x78541Fa014f132059f60F8b53df7E0406C6741D0 like how a website domain resolves to an IP address.

DM me this address.

Never share your private key or recovery phrase with anyone. When you create your wallet, the app will show you a series of words (usually 12 or 24) called a "recovery phrase" and ask you to write them down somewhere safe. This phrase is used to recover your private key. Anyone who has it controls your address and everything in it. Your address (the thing starting with 0x or your .base.eth name) is safe to share. Your recovery phrase is not.

Blockchains

A blockchain is a shared, public ledger that anyone can read and verify. There are many blockchains. Ethereum is the most widely used one. On top of Ethereum, there are "Layer 2" (L2) chains that inherit Ethereum's security but are faster and cheaper to use. Base is one such L2. My personal token lives on Base.

Because Base is built on Ethereum, they share the same address system. Your Ethereum address works on Base (and on other Ethereum L2s) automatically. Other blockchains like Solana have completely separate address systems. For my personal token, you need an Ethereum address.

Keys and addresses

Your private key is a secret. Think of it like a password. It proves you own your address. Never share it with anyone, including me.

Your address is derived from your private key (through an intermediate step called a public key, which you'll never need to think about). Your address is your public identity onchain. Think of it like a username. It's completely safe to share.

It looks like this: 0x78541Fa014f132059f60F8b53df7E0406C6741D0. You can also register a human-readable name like alice.eth that points to your address, the same way a domain name points to an IP address.

Wallets

A wallet is an app that manages your private key and lets you interact with blockchains through your address. Think of it like a banking app: the app doesn't hold your money, but it gives you access to your account. You never need to handle your private key directly. The wallet does that for you.

What happens if I lose access to my wallet?

As I mentioned in how it works – just let me know if you lose access to your wallet or something happens, and I can update the personal token to point to a new address. Try not to lose access to your address tho.