How to connect your wallet via WalletConnect

Genius Assets
4 min readJun 9, 2022

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Today we will explain briefly how to connect your wallet using WalletConnect, on Desktop and mobile, but also how to disconnect your wallet.

Desktop

STEP 1:

You must have the MetaMask extension installed in your browser.

  • Go to app.genius-assets.com/login;
  • Login in to your account
  • After you are in the dashboard
  • Click on ‘Connect Wallet’ and select the first option — ‘QR Code’;

Open your MetaMask on your phone.

In the right corner of MetaMask, click on the scan;

Scan your QR Code.

STEP 2:

STEP 3:

Now you can operate with Genius Assets in your desktop browser and confirm transactions through the MetaMask mobile application.

Internal browser — iOS and Android

NOTE DOWN:

The best way to connect the MetaMask app to Genius Assets on your mobile phone is by using the MetaMask app’s internal browser.

STEP 1:

  • Open the MetaMask app on your mobile phone;
  • Click on the ‘menu’ button in the upper left corner;
  • Select ‘browser’;
  • Click on the header and type app.genius-assets.com in the URL field;
  • On https://app.genius-assets.com/login choose ‘connect wallet’, accept the Terms of Service and select the first connection option — ‘MetaMask’.

You can now use the MetaMask internal browser for interaction with Genius Assets.

WalletConnect

To connect the Metamask app on your mobile phone to a browser on your desktop, use the ‘WalletConnect’ option.

  • In a desktop browser, go to https://app.genius-assets.com/;
  • Click on ‘connect wallet’, accept the Terms of Service and select ‘WalletConnect’. A QR code will be displayed on the screen;
  • on your mobile phone, open the MetaMask app;
  • Click on the “menu” button in the upper left corner;
  • select “wallet”;
  • in the upper right corner, click on the ‘QR-code scanner’ icon and point the phone’s camera to the QR code on the screen;
  • confirm connection on your phone.

Interact with Genius Assets in your desktop browser and confirm transactions from your phone.

How to disconnect Metamask

First, click your address in the upper right corner of the page.

Then, click “disconnect”.

How to switch accounts:

Using Browser Extension:

First, disconnect the wallet from the Genius Assets, using the instructions above. Then open the Metamask extension and click the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the window.

Then, click the trash can icon next to “app.genius-assets.com”.

Next, switch to the account that you would like to connect to, by clicking on the logo in the upper right corner of the main Metamask window, and selecting the account.

Lastly, head back to the app.genius-assets.com, refresh the page, and reconnect using the instructions from the previous article.

Using the Metamask internal browser on iOS or Android

To switch accounts, click your connected address at the bottom of the screen, then click “Disconnect”.

Then, on the main Metamask page, select the account you want to use and reconnect to 1inch with the instructions from the previous article.

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