MEW Mobile now supports BTC!
Founded in 2015 soon after Ethereum's mainnet was launched, MyEtherWallet (MEW) started as a basic web interface for Ethereum. It has since expanded into a suite of products supporting multiple blockchain networks. Over the years, we’ve endured market downturns and released easy-to-use mobile and browser wallets for all users. You can now manage BTC with the MEW Mobile app.
Use this guide to help import Bitcoin from your Coinomi 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 Coinomi wallet phrase.
Open up your Coinomi Wallet. Unlock your wallet then click on the hamburger menu (3 line icon) at the top left of the app.
Click the ‘Settings’ option at the bottom of the side menu.
Select the ‘Manage Wallets’ at the bottom of the page.
Click the three dots at the right of the wallet you want to import to MEW Mobile.
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 Coinomi wallet phrase. Your Coinomi wallet phrase and your existing MEW Mobile phrases are separate, and you should continue to keep them both secure.
Select the ‘Recovery Phrase’ option.
After you enter your password and click ‘I understand’, 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!
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 Coinomi BTC account to MEW or you can send BTC from your Coinomi 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 Coinomi 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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