How to get access to your crypto assets from reddit: moons and nfts

If you have being here for a while, you may have already some moons and perhaps you even got free a nft reddit avatar. It is awesome that those things are indeed assets in the block chain and you should learn how to get access to them and make good use of it. If at this point, you have some moons and even a nft avatar, but “you are too afraid to ask” how the hell you can get access and manage them, I will show you how.

First thing first: you should have opened your reddit vault in order to be eligible to get moons. If you haven't opened it, check this

Now let us find the vault address, since this is indeed a crypto wallet! Once you are in your vault (Click on your profile picture on reddit mobile app and then click on vault), At the top of your screen next to where it says vault there should be three dots, click on them and there you get some info regarding your reddit wallet: the address and options to set a password and get your recovery phrase. As usual, store your phrase in a good place.

Now, the question is: this address belongs to which network? Well, this address exist in the Ethereum network, but as you may know, working on Ethereum mainnet could be expensive, so the moons and the avatar nft are not in the mainnet but on other (side or L2) chains: polygon (for the nft) and arbitrum nova chain (for the moons).

Ok so let’s see if you are following this right, by this moment you should have your address: go ahead and see what assets are in them. If you have moons go paste your address in the https://nova-explorer.arbitrum.io/ and check indeed that they are listed in your wallet. For those with nfts go and search for it in the https://polygonscan.com/

Great, we have found our reddit vault address and we now can see its content in the blockchain (polygon or arbitrum nova). The next task is to get access to them. For this we will need our recovery phrase. You can get it from your reddit vault as I said before (Click on your profile picture on reddit mobile app and then click on vault - At the top of your screen next to where it says vault there should be three dots – search for the recovery phrase option).

Next we will import this wallet in metamask. If you are like me, you already have some wallets in metamask, so the natural choice would be to import it in your already configured metamask session. For this we will need the private key of our reddit vault. You won’t find that in the reddit movil app (AFAIK). In order to get this private key we need to import the wallet from metamask using our recovery phrase. So in order to avoid to delete your current metamask wallet config you can just import the reddit vault wallet in an other machine, or more easier, just import the vault wallet in the metamask of another browser.

For example, I use brave browser, and in order to avoid going to an other machine or even delete my current metamask setup, I just opened chrome and installed metamask there and imported my reddit vault wallet there. Once you have imported the reddit wallet successfully, you need to get your private key which is located in: search for the three vertical dots located in the upper right corner of the app, click them and look for the account details option, there you should see the export private key button. Click it and copy that.

Now you have the private key of your reddit wallet in order to import it in your metamask current session.

Final steps to get things done is to add polygon and arbitrum nova chains to your metamask, I recommend using https://chainlist.org/ to search for them and add them to your metamask. To see the moons in metamask you have to add the token in the arbitrum nova network. Go to https://nova-explorer.arbitrum.io/ scan your reddit address and copy the smart contract address of the moons in order to use it to import the token in metamask.

To see your nft, you can go to https://opensea.io/ connect your wallet (make sure you are in the polygon network) go to profile. If you don't see anything there, go to the "more" button and click in "hidden", there you should see your nft

Well that was longer than expected. If you were able to follow this, you already have the moons in your metamask ready to be transferred to another wallet or swapped for other coins. Also now you have your nft visible on OpenSea.io and now you could sell it if you want to or just transfer the nft to another wallet.

I hope this little guide encourage more people to explore the assets obtained in reddit and help to grow the community of crypto users.

Disclaimer: I am no expert, I just figured out this a couple of hours ago, I would appreciate more experienced users feedback in order to improve this guide for noobs like me that were too afraid to ask how to.