MEW Mobile now supports BTC!
Founded in 2015 after Ethereum launched, MyEtherWallet (MEW) started as a simple web-based interface for Ethereum. It has since expanded into a suite of products supporting many blockchain networks. Over the years, we've developed user-friendly mobile and browser wallets for everyone. Now, you can also manage BTC in the MEW Mobile app.
Use this guide to help import Bitcoin from your Blockchain wallet into MEW Mobile, where you can hold it, swap it to ETH, stablecoins, or any other token, and put it to work earning you some crypto instead of just sitting there!
Before you can explore Bitcoin on MEW, you’ll need your Blockchain wallet phrase.
Open up your Blockchain Wallet. Unlock your wallet then click on the person icon at the top left of the app.
Select ‘Recovery phrase’ then enter your password, your secret phrase will appear for anyone to see! Make sure you're alone and that no one can see your phone screen.
Once your secret phrase is displayed on screen, you should write it down on a piece of paper rather than making a screenshot. Screenshots live on your phone and are vulnerable to being hacked, so to be safe you never want to screenshot your secret phrase.
Got your secret phrase safely written down? Now head back to MEW!
Note: Only BTC from this wallet will be available in MEW at this time. MEW Mobile is only importing the key to the BTC account(s) you will select, protected under multiple layers of cryptographic and biometric security. MEW is NOT importing or saving your entire Blockchain wallet phrase. Your Blockchain wallet phrase and your existing MEW Mobile phrases are separate, and you should continue to keep them both secure.
Back on the MEW Mobile app, you'll see these new options when you click on ‘Explore Bitcoin on MEW’ from the wallet home screen or switch to the Bitcoin network in the top left corner. Select ‘Move your Bitcoin to MEW’.
You can import your Blockchain BTC account to MEW or you can send BTC from your Blockchain wallet to your MEW Mobile wallet. Select ‘Import my BTC wallet’ to manage your BTC directly in MEW.
(Click ‘Send BTC to myself’ to copy your MEW BTC address and then paste it into your Blockchain wallet to send BTC.)
Select ‘Import using a Secret Recovery Phrase’.
Mark all the checkboxes after reading them carefully, then click ‘Continue’.
Enter your recovery phrase then click ‘Import’ at the top right.
Select the accounts you want to import then click ‘Finish Importing’.
Your Bitcoin wallet will start being imported into MEW Wallet. This process should take about a minute.
Once your Bitcoin wallet is done importing, click ‘Continue’.
You should now be able to see your Bitcoin wallet in your MEW Mobile app! You can swap your BTC to ETH and stake it, or swap to any other token on different EVM networks and use those tokens in various DeFi protocols.
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