# Wallet Configuration

Before you can use the CLIs to manage your data on the network, you need to have a wallet. A wallet is simply a file (in JSON format) that contains your keys, by which you can access your account on the network.

The wallet has:

* Your client ID.
* You Public Key,
* Your Private Key.
* Your Mnemonics.
* Your initial nonce.

Example for a wallet:

```json
{
  "client_id": "ba6ab426644f2b326b1da3dd426229fed19eed85387deaf72e05cb0fa4c5abbb",
  "client_key": "f6ac7fa910e56ac605f99707455b2a07a8230de8efe34cb1f40d80568c3fcc0e955c899624514216523c8a9e8e8db294e69ed81912fecdadc1544f0ea580b01e",
  "keys": [
    {
      "public_key": "f6ac7fa910e56ac605f99707455b2a07a8230de8efe34cb1f40d80568c3fcc0e955c899624514216523c8a9e8e8db294e69ed81912fecdadc1544f0ea580b01e",
      "private_key": "02f3a1ad1514c520542527d91d0aaf43af8fbfa92437b44c85d1e55f35b86a01"
    }
  ],
  "mnemonics": "arctic sunny beef human powder cool jungle shift cabin ginger license mixture onion elevator render inspire morning limb square crater limb forest consider virus",
  "version": "1.0",
  "date_created": "2024-04-25T17:38:24+02:00",
  "nonce": 0
}
```

All the commands of the CLI tools expect the wallet file (named `wallet.json`) to be saved in the `configDir` (which is by default \~/.zcn).

### Creating a new wallet

If you don't have a wallet already, you can create a new wallet using `zwalletcli`

```
./zwallet create-wallet
```

This will create you a new wallet and store it as: `~/.zcn/wallet.json`

You can also specify different name for your wallet:

```
./zwallet create-wallet --name my-custom-wallet
```

### Getting tokens to your wallet

Now that you created your tokens, you need to fund it with some tokens to be able to pay transaction fees and storage cost, or even to stake providers for reward. There are a couple of different ways by which you can achieve this:

#### Getting tokens using Bolt Webapp

Once you generated the wallet, you can use Bolt app to fund some tokens to it, as follows:

1. Login to Bolt using your wallet, check the [Export Wallet](https://docs.zus.network/zus-docs/webapps/bolt/sign-in-with-external-wallet) feature documentation in Bolt for more details.
2. Connect your Metamask wallet as prompted.
3. Use bolt to deposit tokens to your exported wallet using the ERC-20 tokens in your Metamask wallet. Check the [DEX flow](https://docs.zus.network/zus-docs/clis/zwalletcli/broken-reference) documentation for more information.

#### Sending tokens from an existing wallet

If you have an existing wallet which has tokens, you can send tokens from it to your newly created wallet. You can do this either using the [`send`](https://github.com/0chain/zwalletcli?tab=readme-ov-file#sending-tokens-to-another-wallet---send) command of Zwallet CLI, or using Bolt (check [Send/Receive](https://docs.zus.network/zus-docs/webapps/bolt/send-receive-zcn) feature documentation of Bolt).

{% hint style="info" %}
Note that in order to use `send` command to send tokens from your existing wallet, you'll need to have the wallet in JSON format in a file on your system and provide its path to the CLI, as defined in the next section.
{% endhint %}

### Using the wallet in your commands

All CLI commands use the wallet stored in your `~/.zcn` directory and named `wallet.json` by default. To specify a different wallet name and path:

```
./zwallet <some-command> --wallet my-custom-wallet
```

This will make the command use `~/.zcn/my-custom-wallet.json` as your wallet. Also to change the default path where it gets the wallet file:

```
./zwallet <some-command> --wallet my-custom-wallet --configDir myzus
```

This will make the command use the wallet stored in `./myzus/my-custom-wallet` but will also use the `config.yaml` file stored in the same directory.