Step four — creating an account on the storefront
The fourth step is creating an account on the storefront. Registration takes only a passphrase, an optional invite code and a name you pick for yourself. There is no email field, no phone field and no identity check — the storefront does not collect any of that and never has.
Choosing a passphrase
The passphrase is the only thing that protects the account, so pick one that you have never used anywhere else and that is long enough to be hard to guess. Four random unrelated words separated by spaces is a friendly starting point and is far stronger than a short complicated string. Write the passphrase down somewhere safe at the moment of creation, since a forgotten passphrase on a storefront with no email recovery turns the account into a brick.
The recovery mnemonic
After registration the storefront shows a recovery mnemonic — a short list of words that lets you recover the account if you forget the passphrase. Write the mnemonic on paper and store the paper somewhere a casual visitor to your home would not look. Do not photograph it. Do not paste it into a notes app that syncs to a cloud. The mnemonic is the second key to the account; treat it with the same seriousness as a house key.
Turning on two-factor authentication
The account panel has a two-factor option that pairs with a standard authenticator app on your phone — the same kind of app you might already use for an email account. Set it up the same day you register, ideally before you fund the wallet. Two-factor turns the storefront login into a two-step exercise, where the passphrase alone is not enough to sign in. It is the single largest improvement in account safety after the passphrase itself.
Signing in for the first time
Once the account exists and two-factor is on, sign out and then sign back in to confirm everything works. Enter the passphrase, enter the code from the authenticator app, and the storefront dashboard comes up. The wallet panel is empty at this point — that is expected. Funding is the next step.