GETTING STARTED
Create an account
Sign-up on Tab does two things at once: it claims your handle in our off-chain registry and it provisions a fresh wallet on your device. The whole process is five steps and takes a minute or two.
The five steps
- Handle. Pick something between three and twenty characters, lowercase letters and digits only. We check availability as you type.
- PIN. Six digits. This becomes the input to PBKDF2, which derives the key that encrypts your wallet. Don't use a birthday.
- Confirm PIN. Type it again. If you forget it between this step and the next one, you don't have a wallet to worry about losing — start over.
- Backup. Pick one of: encrypted Drive backup, manual export, or set up later. The first two are safe; the third is a calculated risk.
- Done. You're handed a payment link and dropped into the dashboard. Total network calls: one to reserve the handle.
What happens server-side
Two things, both small. The handle gets inserted into the registry with your wallet's public address. A row gets created in the accounts table with an empty profile and your chosen backup mode. That's the entire server-side footprint of a new account.
What does not happen
No private key is uploaded. No PIN is uploaded. No KYC is collected. No email is required to make a wallet — only to receive invoices or webhooks later, if you want them.