When I go to connect account in Brave rewards, I am only offered uphold or gemini and according to Brave’s online help it should be possible.
But I want to connect a self-managed wallet and delete uphold. I am no longer there.
But I want to continue collecting the rewards and therefore change the account to my self-managed wallet.
In the Brave help I only find:
A “linked Brave Rewards profile” means that you have linked a deposit account or self-managed wallet to your Brave Rewards profile.
So it should be possible!
If I can upload the photo see attachment: it only offers me uphold or gemini.
How can I do this?
I only have 1 week left on my uphold account.
Also, you can’t get invite if you are linked to Uphold or other custodial partner. So you would have to reset your Rewards profile and not earn until you get invite. Otherwise just keep using Uphold until they announce on-chain is available to everyone.
Thanks, i read the informations you linked for me and further ones.
So ist there a timeline, until when on-chain / self-custody is available for all?
Reset your Rewards profile would mean, that i loose all collected rewards?
I realized that there is a own brave wallet as well: i tried to initialize it and saw, that i obvisiously initialized it when started brave browser first time many years ago when brave came up. So, i dont remember this password. What way do i have to let me send a new password or is it necessary to restore the brave wallet? If to restore, will there be asked the 24 word passphrase i got the very first time when i started brave?
Sorry vor newbie-questions!
Nothing definitive at this time. We should be getting a BAT Roadmap soon which should hopefully have more information.
Resetting means you are putting existing Rewards profile to nothing, as if you just installed Brave for the first time. Any payments in your Uphold would remain, but it would mean you’d no longer earn from ads you see until you are able to connect to a custodial partner (like Uphold) or your on-chain Wallet.
Wallet is self custody. This means nobody could ever get into your Wallet except for you. If you lost the password, you would need your recovery/seed phrase and would restore with it. If you don’t have that, then it is permanently locked out and is nothing you can do.
I’m assuming you likely never bought any cryptocurrency and probably never had anyone send something to you on Wallet. If that’s the case, then yours would be empty. At which point I would suggest you just reset it and start new. Go to Settings → Web3 and choose Reset and clear wallet data. When you do this, it will give a prompt to warn you that if it’s not backed up you can lose everything. Type in Yes and hit the Ok button. This will reset and now Wallet will be like you just installed Brave.
Go to create it and then it will do things like ask you to create a password. It will also then give you a 12 word recovery phrase. Make sure you store that somewhere safe. Anyone who gets that recovery phrase will be able to access your Wallet and any cryptocurrency you have in it. It serves as your key if you ever need to restore it on another device or anything. It’s something you should never share with anyone else. If you go through in order, it then will quiz you on some of the words to make sure you have it. Then you’ll be done. From there you can send or receive crypto to your wallet and the password you created is how you’ll login on that profile.
Thanks a lot for your quick answer and help!
For sure, my last questions:
If I understand correctly, brave rewards and wallet are completely separate and I can reset the (unused) brave wallet without affecting the rewards program. I now reaktivated the brave wallet with my Passphrase successfully.
As i read " the focus is going to be on getting invites to people who live in countries that can’t connect to custodial accounts" - so my chance would be bad to get an invitation.
But when i delete my connection to uphold, it will increase my chance or or does the fact that I still have the option to uphold still apply?
My problem is, that i am not sure, if i can or will continue my account on uphold.
They have security problems and its very complicated to fix that.
Thats why i prefer to change to a self custodial wallet.
Beneath of brave wallet what other self custody wallets are possible for getting/handle the brave rewards (solana, eth + )?
I couldn’t see that clearly anywhere, but I’m not good at English either.
Supplement: Which cold and hot wallets can the brave wallet connect to or interact / integrate with and is that only possible with bat or also via exchange to bitcoin for example?
Is Brave Wallet able to change bat to btc and send it to any wallet address like moon-wallet or whatever?
Not necessarily. It just said priority given to them. Of course, people joining waitlist is key part. Not too many are doing that as it’s not widely announced how to do it. I just am not with Brave and don’t know too much on how their selections have gone. But I do know they said are pushing out invites as quickly as they can.
I’d hate to tell you definitely would be quick and then you have delay. But I also would be fibbing if I told you to assume little to no chance of getting the invite.
Yes. You can’t have anything connected to Rewards to get the invite. Pretty much means having to enable Rewards but not connect to a custodial partner. Then sign up for waitlist for higher (but not guaranteed) chance of getting selected. Beyond that, wait until notice appears that you can connect to on-chain.
I am not sure why you say this. Despite having gotten on-chain invite for another profile (as I was one of the early test groups), I am choosing to continue using Uphold for my main profile. It is just more convenient for me. I have been using Uphold for around 5 years now and have had no issues. Overall they have been very safe.
There are a lot of ways I can interpret this question and try to answer. And I hesitate on answering any. I’m not especially knowledgeable on Wallet as I don’t do a lot with cryptocurrency. As you have created your Wallet, you should be able to navigate in it to see all the blockchains and tokens it can interact with. You also can see some at brave://settings/wallet/networks
Keep in mind Brave Wallet is self custody wallet. All it’s good for is just holding cryptocurrency. It is not an exchange or anything. This means if you want to convert any tokens you would need to use another service. And if you want to withdraw to a bank you would need to use some exchange to do it.
Thank you so much for this detailed and competent information. I’m still trying to sort this out with uphold, if it doesn’t work then I now have a very good alternative!
Uphold has come up with a “certain” solution, even though an uncomfortable one:
I should create a new account there. How does that work with the rewards? How can I disconnect and create a new account or do I simply have to go to the other account when logging in in future? See screenshot.
I do NOT want the rewards to continue to go to the old deleted account. I will then no longer have access to this account.
I mean: How can I disconnect from uphold and reconnect (with my new uphold account)? Or do I just have to log in with the new uphold account when I log in from the reward account?
