MEW Mobile now supports SOL!
Created in 2015 soon after Ethereum’s mainnet launch, MyEtherWallet (MEW) started out as a simple web interface for Ethereum users. Since then, it has grown into a full-featured platform supporting dozens of blockchain networks and ecosystems. Over the years, we’ve weathered market ups and downs while building sleek, easy-to-use mobile and browser wallets for users of all experience levels. Now, you can conveniently manage your SOL directly through the MEW Mobile app.
Use this guide to help import Solana from your Backpack 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 Solana on MEW, you’ll need your Backpack wallet phrase.
Open up your Backpack Wallet. Unlock your wallet then click on the wallet name at the top left of the app.
Select the Cog wheel icon at the top right.
Alternatively, you can view the private key for your SOL wallet by clicking the 3 dots next to your wallet. However, for this guide we will export the recovery phrase.
Note: Only SOL from this wallet will be available in MEW at this time. MEW Mobile is only importing the key to the SOL account(s) you will select, protected under multiple layers of cryptographic and biometric security. MEW is NOT importing or saving your entire Exodus wallet phrase. Your Exodus wallet phrase and your existing MEW Mobile phrases are separate, and you should continue to keep them both secure.
Click the ‘Wallet’ button under the ‘Accounts’ section.
Click on the ‘Show Secret Recovery Phrase’ at the bottom of the app.
After you click the ‘Show Secret Recovery Phrase’ button, 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, it’s best to write it down on a piece of paper rather than screenshotting it. Screenshots live on your phone and are vulnerable to being hacked.
Have your secret phrase written down and safe? Head back to the MEW Mobile app.
Back on the MEW Mobile app, you'll see these new options when you click on ‘Try Solana on MEW’ from the wallet home screen or switch to the Solana network in the top left corner. Select ‘Move your SOL to MEW’.
You can import your Backpack SOL account to MEW or you can send SOL from your Backpack wallet to your MEW Mobile wallet. Select ‘Import my SOL wallet’ to manage your SOL directly in MEW.
(Click ‘Send SOL to myself’ to copy your MEW SOL address and then paste it into your Backpack wallet to send SOL.)
Scroll down to see the ‘Import my SOL wallet’ button then select it.
Select ‘Import using a Secret Recovery Phrase’.
Check all the boxes 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 Solana wallet will start being imported into MEW Wallet. This process should take about a minute.
Once your Solana wallet is done importing, click ‘Continue’.
You should now be able to see your Solana wallet in your MEW Mobile app! You can swap your SOL 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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