How to set up a testnet wallet?

We’ve written a short guide to teach you how to set up a testnet wallet using Vespr, so you can participate in the Âtrium incentivized testnet.

The alpha is live on Cardano’s preview testnet! Our goal with this alpha is to find bugs, and gather feedback. This will allow us to ship a better product to Cardano’s mainnet. By setting up a testnet wallet and participating in the Âtrium incentivized testnet, you will be eligible to receive the Âtma token Airdrop when it goes live.

Step one: Install the Vespr browser extension

You can also use Nami, or Lace if you have those, but for the purposes of demonstration, we’ll be using Vespr. You can install this browser extension by visiting the Chrome store, and adding it to your browser.

Step two: Create a wallet

Open the Vespr browser extension and follow the onscreen prompts to create a wallet. Vespr makes the process very simple.

Once You have your wallet, click the menu button in the top right of the Vespr interface (the three vertical dots) to open the settings panel.

From there scroll down to the ‘Application’ section, and changes the Active network from ‘Cardano Mainnet’ to the Test network called ‘Preview’.

Perfect. You are good to go. But before you do, lets get some test ada in your wallet.

Step three: Get test ADA from the Faucet

Visit https://docs.cardano.org/cardano-testnet/tools/faucet/

From there, scroll down and find the input form.

Open your Vespr wallet, and return to the main wallet page by clicking the back arrow in the settings menu (if you haven’t already).

At the bottom of the window are two blue circle buttons, click the right button, the one that looks like an arrow pointing towards the bottom left. This is the receive button.

Click the copy button to copy your address.

Paste the Ada address you just copied from your Vespr wallet into the website Address field. You can ignore the API key input, just check the ‘I’m not a robot’ box. and click ‘Request funds’

Now you should have some funds in your testnet wallet. You can come back every day and claim 10,000 tADA from the faucet, if you want some more to play with.

But thats it, you are now ready to come on over to Âtrium and begin testing. Click the ‘Connect wallet’ button.

Choose Vespr, and you’ll be brought into the Âtrium Dashboard.

We have an article here that explains what to do next in order to be eligible to receive the Âtma Token Airdrop.

Hopefully this guide made sense. If not then feel free to ask questions in our discord, and we’ll help you if you get stuck. We have very friendly and active community who will be only too happy to help.