Create your Reef chain account

In order to interact with dapps on the Reef chain you need to do two thing:
- Generate a Polkadot address;
- Get some Reef tokens;
- Bind your Polkadot address to an EVM address.

Generate a Polkadot account

If you already have a Polkadot account skip to the next part.

The easiest wat to generate a Polkadot address is via Polkadot{.js} browser extension. Download and install it from the official website at https://polkadot.js.org/extension/.

Step 1

Click on the plus icon in the top-right corner.

Step 2

Click on “Create new account”

Step 3

Save your mnemonic seed on paper (it’s advisable not to store it in your computer nor in the cloud).

Step 4

Be sure it can work on any chain by “Allow use on any chain” under NETWORK selector.

You should now see your newly created Polkadot address.

Get some Reef test tokens

To pair a Polkadot address with an EVM address a transaction, with a specific contract by Reef Finance, is required. Therefore you need some Reef tokens.

Let’s say that for this example you would like to connect to the testnet of Reef.
To get 1000 REEF testnet tokens simply type !drip <YOUR_ADDRESS> in Reef matrix chat.

Bind your Polkadot address to an EVM address

It’s now time to pair your new Polkadot address with an EVM address.
This step is needed in order to interact with dapps hosted in the Reef chain ecosystem.

To complete the binding process head over to https://evm.reefscan.com/#/evmAccount, and follow the steps below:

Step 1

Once you’ve landed on https://evm.reefscan.com/#/evmAccount you’ll be presented with the screen here below.

The first thing you have to do is to make sure to select “Testnet” from the selector in the bottom-left corner:

Step 2

Click on “Bind” and you’ll be presented with a Polkadot{.js} dialog that asks for your password to sign the transaction.

Sign the transaction above and you’re done!
My compliments, now you are part of the Reef chain family.

Conclusion

Finally we are ready to enjoy the extreme speed and efficiency of Reef chain!

I hope this was easy an not that painful.
Cheers ❤