Your wallet holds QXC, the platform's own test-network asset — this page covers what a wallet is, your address, and how the recovery phrase and passphrase protect it.
Setting up a wallet
To set up a wallet, your account first needs to be approved for the QXC network by an administrator — this is separate from your account being approved overall. If it isn't approved yet, wallet setup tells you so and you need to wait. Once approved, Set up wallet creates your keypair and asks you to protect it with a passphrase.
Your wallet address
A wallet's address (qxc1…) is its public key — there is no separate internal account number ever shown to you.
Passphrase and recovery phrase
Your passphrase encrypts your private key on your own device. Your private key and passphrase are never stored on or sent to our servers — only the public key and an encrypted blob ever reach us. Along with the passphrase, you also get a 24-word recovery phrase, the master backup of your wallet. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe: it's shown only once, and it isn't stored anywhere for us to show you again either. Anyone who has these 24 words has full control of your wallet, so never share them, photograph them, or type them into any website.
If you forget your passphrase and also lose your recovery phrase, nobody — not even an administrator — can recover the wallet or the QXC in it. There's no support path to reverse that, the same way there's none to undo a settled transfer.
Changing your passphrase
If you still have your recovery phrase, you can use it to set a new passphrase from Reset wallet passphrase. This only re-encrypts your existing key under the new passphrase — your wallet address never changes.
What's next
See Sending QXC to send funds, and Faucet to get your first test QXC. Manage your wallet at Wallet.