# Quickstart

> Sign up, keep your 12 words safe, make a wallet and make your first move.

Source: https://ravenwallet.pro/docs/quickstart

## Five steps

1. **Sign up.** Use Google, or an email and a password of at least 12 characters. Raven turns down the passwords guessed first, like one word with a number on the end.
2. **Keep your 12 words.** Raven shows them once. They are the other way into your wallets: with them you can open everything again and set a new password. Write them down and keep them where only you can reach.
3. **Make a wallet.** Open **New wallet**. Make one or many at once, name them, and put them in a folder. Already have wallets in Phantom? [Import](https://ravenwallet.pro/docs/import) them instead.
4. **Add SOL.** Open a wallet and tap **Receive** for its address and a QR code. Send SOL to it from an exchange or another wallet.
5. **Make your first move.** Try [Send](https://ravenwallet.pro/docs/send), or [Split](https://ravenwallet.pro/docs/split) to spread SOL across many wallets. Turn on **Private** to send so nobody can follow it.

> **Note:** Your password locks your keys. Raven never sees it and cannot reset it for you.

> **Warning:** Without your password or your 12 words, nobody can open your wallets, us included.

## Under the hood

- **Your keys are made here**: The first wallet’s key and your 12 words are made in your browser from its own secure random numbers.
- **Locked before saving**: Your password is stretched with PBKDF2-SHA256 over 600,000 rounds into a key that locks the vault with AES-256-GCM. Only the locked vault is saved, on your device and on Raven’s server.
- **A proof, not your password**: To sign you in later, your browser sends a separate proof stretched from your password. The password itself never leaves.

## Next

- [On your phone](https://ravenwallet.pro/docs/phone.md): Everything the computer has, from your Home Screen, unlocked with Face ID.
- [Signing in and unlocking](https://ravenwallet.pro/docs/unlock.md): Google or email to sign in, your password or Face ID to unlock, and how long it stays open.
- [How moves work](https://ravenwallet.pro/docs/moves.md): Every move is planned, shown to you in full, tried against the chain, and only then signed and sent.