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How to Buy NFTs
Aug 24, 2022The majority NFT marketplaces are decentralized platforms. That means, it is necessary to connect an external crypto wallet so that we can start buying, selling and trading nft. It is in these wallets that the user will store their digital assets.
There are many types of crypto wallets such as Metamask, WalletConnect, Coinbase wallet, Phantom, etc. In this tutorial we will give the example of Metamask, which is one of the most used and accepted wallets in all marketplaces.
If you dicide to use a Centralized plataform to buy your NFTs like Binance or Crypto.com you should send them to an external wallet like Metamask. In this way you have full control of your assets.
To register and log into our MetaMask account, we must download the Google Chrome extension.
Go to the download page and select Install MetaMask for Chrome. You can also donwload an app to IOS or Android.
Then choose to install the MetaMask client as required, and click Add to Chrome.
Then we can begin signing up for a MetaMask account.
You have the option to log in directly with an existing account or to create a new wallet. Choose the second option to Create a Wallet.
Now begins the most important part where we have to pay close attention. It's time to set the password and get your secret phrase.
The Secret Recovery Phrase is a very unique and the most important step in the MetaMask registration. The website will provide you with a paragraph of 12 different words in a specific order, and these are the only credentials to retrieve your account if lost. If you lost these 12 words you cant recover assets. We recommend that you are absolutely certain you will not lose your progress before clicking the Next button.
Copy it on paper if possible. Do not save the Secret Recovery Phrase on the network device, otherwise you may lose your assets.
In the next step you need to confirm your Secret Recovery Phrase in order.
And that it. You successfully created you Metamask account and you can start trading NFTs
Remember, if you dicide to use a Centralized plataform to buy your NFTs like Binance or Crypto.com you should send them to an external wallet like Metamask.