Create a wallet
Create a self-custodial Botanary smart account with just an email, passkey, or OAuth login.
Creating a Botanary account takes one login step and one signature. There's no seed phrase to write down. On testnet, your first deployment is sponsored, so it costs nothing up front; on mainnet, that first deployment pays its own gas.
Choose a login method
Sign in with email (a 6-digit one-time code), a passkey, or one of the supported OAuth providers. This login is handled by Privy and controls an embedded signer key that never leaves Privy's secure enclave - Privy is a signer only, never an authority over your account.
Your session is established
Once login completes, Botanary exchanges your Privy authentication for a Botanary session. If this is your first time, an embedded signer key is provisioned automatically if one doesn't already exist.
Create your account
Botanary registers your counterfactual smart account and checks whether it needs deploying on-chain.
Create a self-custodial smart account with just your email. Hand out limited, revocable spending power - and cut it off in one tap. Enforced on-chain, never by a server.
- If the account is already deployed, it's ready immediately - no signature needed.
- Otherwise, you'll sign one operation to deploy it on-chain. This is your account's first signed operation - on testnet it's sponsored, so it costs you nothing; on mainnet it pays its own gas.
You're in
Once the deploy operation is confirmed (or skipped, if nothing needed deploying), you land on your account's Home screen.
What you actually control
Your login only ever controls the signer key - the same login works across every account you create under it. Your account itself is a self-custodial Kernel smart account: Botanary can build operations for it, but only your signer can authorize them.
Next: make your first transaction.