Course 02 · Lesson 01

Creating a Starknet wallet

Facts checked 25 Oct 2026

You don't need a wallet app to play Influence: signing in with Google or email works for everything inside the game, but it will limit what you can achieve. This guide is for players comfortable with using blockchain who want a Starknet wallet of their own, such as Ready X or Braavos, and who wish to expand their horizons. It also explains how to set one up safely.

What a wallet of your own adds

When you sign in with Google or email, the game creates a Starknet account for you behind the scenes, and it works for everything inside the game. A wallet of your own opens up the wider Influence world as well:

  • The Training Ground: Hiring an Academy tutor crew on adalia.exchange needs a wallet such as Ready X or Braavos.
  • Community Tools: Sites built by players, like the Academy's My Assets pages, connect to your wallet to show your crews, asteroids, and ships.
  • Settling Further Afield: Community tools show what other asteroids hold, what they have for sale on their marketplaces, and where to send your ships. These tools connect through a wallet, which makes settling asteroids and trading between them far easier.
  • Trading: You can move SWAY and other tokens in and out of your wallet and swap them on Starknet exchanges.
  • Control: You hold the keys to your account yourself, rather than relying on a sign-in service. Any digital assets linked to those keys are yours, and yours alone.

Choosing a wallet

The two most popular Starknet wallets are Ready X (formerly Argent X) and Braavos. Both are free, both work with Influence, and both come as a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, plus an app for iPhone and Android. Either is a good choice; pick whichever you prefer the look of.

Influence is played in a desktop browser, so start with the browser extension on your computer. You can add the phone app later and use it to check on things while you're away.

Be careful with the name: Ready, the company behind Ready X, also has a separate app called simply Ready, which is a payments app and not a Starknet wallet. Make sure you install Ready X.

Installing your wallet

Fake wallet extensions exist, and they are built to steal funds. Always start from the wallet maker's own download page:

From there:

  1. Choose your browser and add the extension. Pin it to your browser's toolbar so it's easy to find.
  2. Open the extension and choose to create a new wallet.
  3. Set a strong password. This unlocks the wallet on this computer only.
  4. Write down your recovery phrase, a list of words the wallet shows you once. Write it on paper, in order, and keep it somewhere safe. The wallet will ask you to confirm some of the words. Never share your recovery phrase with anyone.
  5. Your wallet is ready. Its address starts with 0x, and you can copy it from the extension whenever you need it.

Keeping it safe

Your recovery phrase is the master key to everything in your wallet. Anyone who has it can take your crews, ships, asteroids, and SWAY, and nobody can undo that.

  • Keep It Offline: Store it on paper, not in a photo, email, or cloud document.
  • Never Type It into a Website: No genuine game, tool, or support person will ever ask for it. The Academy never will.
  • Check Before You Approve: When your wallet asks you to approve something, read what it is, who it goes to, and how much it costs. If you don't understand it, don't approve it.
  • Use Official Links: Start the game at game.influenceth.io, and check the address before connecting your wallet anywhere.

Putting some funds in

A new wallet is empty. The simplest way to fill it is the same as for everyone else: sign in to Influence with your wallet and buy SWAY by card in the game's Store, as described in Your first SWAY. The card top-up is held in your wallet as USDC, a digital form of the US dollar, and the game swaps as much of it as you choose for SWAY.

  • SWAY for the Game: Inside the game, network fees can be paid in SWAY, so you don't need any other token to play.
  • A Little STRK for Other Sites: Starknet's own token, STRK, pays the network fees on community sites, such as hiring an Academy crew on adalia.exchange. Swap a small amount of your USDC for it with the swap feature built into your wallet (Ready X and Braavos both have one); no exchange is needed. $1 of STRK should last a long time.
  • Enough for Training and a Crewmate: After $1 or $2 of SWAY, the rest of a $10 top-up covers a crewmate of your own (about $5) when you're ready.

Wallet apps also let you buy with a card through providers such as Ramp Network, Banxa, and Topper, but these ask you to verify your ID first, aren't available everywhere, and their fees take a big share of small purchases. Experienced players may prefer an exchange; whichever route you use, send a tiny test amount first.

Using your wallet

  • With Influence: On the game's sign-in screen, connect your wallet instead of using Google or email.
  • With the Academy: Click Connect Wallet at the top of any page to see your crews, asteroids, and ships under My Assets. The Academy reads your address. The only time it asks your wallet to approve anything is when you hire or extend a tutor crew on its hire desk, and it will never ask for your recovery phrase. Always check that you are on adalia.academy before connecting.
  • On a Phone: Wallets connect to websites inside their own app. Open Ready X or Braavos, tap its built-in Browser, and visit the site from there.

Connect your wallet

Share your wallet address with the Academy. You will never be asked to sign anything, pay anything or enter a recovery phrase.