Move from Bob
Bob Wallet and Namehold derive keys the same way, the way hsd does. Your Bob recovery phrase opens the same wallet in Namehold: the same addresses, the same coins, the same names. Nothing moves on chain, so nothing costs a fee. One thing does not travel with the phrase, so start in Bob.
1. In Bob: cancel your Shakedex listings
A name you listed for sale in Bob's Exchange sits in a lock whose key Bob made at random and keeps in its own files. The recovery phrase does not contain that key, so Namehold cannot reach a name that is still locked.
- Open Exchange in Bob and cancel each listing that has not sold. Cancelling takes two transactions, a transfer and, about two days later, a finalize; the name is back in your wallet once the finalize confirms.
- A listing you want to keep: list the name again from Namehold's Market page once you have moved.
No listings in Bob? Skip this step.
2. In Bob: write down your recovery phrase
Open Settings, find Reveal recovery seed phrase, click Reveal and enter your Bob password. Write the words down on paper, in order.
- Note the names you have bid on and not yet revealed, with the amounts if you remember them. Namehold can find the amount without them, but knowing it is instant.
- A Ledger wallet in Bob has no phrase to reveal: skip this step and connect the same Ledger in Namehold with Import from Ledger.
3. In Namehold: import the phrase
- Download Namehold, and check the download before you open it.
- On the welcome screen choose Import your wallet, pick Mainnet, and click Import in secure window. Already using Namehold? Use Add wallet from the wallet card at the top of the sidebar.
- Paste the phrase into the secure window. Bob never sets the optional BIP-39 passphrase (your Bob password only encrypts Bob's files), so leave that field empty. Set a passphrase of your own for Namehold: it protects the phrase on this computer.
- Wait for the first sync. Namehold finds your addresses, coins and names through your node or the explorer you chose.
4. In Namehold: reveal your open bids
A bid's amount is sealed on chain, and a wallet needs it to reveal the bid. Namehold works it out from your phrase the way hsd does.
- During the reveal period, open the name's page. The Recover bid panel asks for the amount; type it and click Recover bid.
- Don't remember it? Click Auto-recover (brute-force): Namehold tries likely amounts and finds most bids in seconds.
- Then reveal as usual. A bid not revealed before the reveal period ends loses its whole lockup, in any wallet.
Afterwards
- Use one wallet at a time. Bob and Namehold do not know about each other's unconfirmed transactions, so spending from both at once can fail. Once Namehold shows everything, close Bob.
- Keep the paper with your phrase. It opens your wallet in Namehold, in Bob, or in any other hsd-compatible wallet.
- Multisig wallets from Bob are not supported in Namehold.