First steps with Kyro

1. Install Kyro

The quickest way is the one-line command. It downloads the latest release from GitHub and checks its SHA-256 before installing.

If you prefer the file, download it and verify it first.

2. Choose how to start

The welcome screen offers three ways in. There is no account in any of them.

• Use a Ledger or Trezor. Your keys stay in the device, and Kyro stores only public keys.
• Create a new vault. Kyro makes a new recovery phrase, 24 words by default.
• Import a recovery phrase. 12 or 24 BIP39 words from another wallet.

3. Pick a password

At least 10 characters, and a phrase of four words or more is better. It encrypts the vault on this computer, and you will type it to unlock Kyro and to sign. It cannot be recovered.

4. Write down your phrase

Kyro shows the words in a separate window, blurred until you choose to show them. Write them on paper, in order, then type the three words Kyro asks for. How to keep that paper safe.

5. Look around

Portfolio shows your total and your assets. Swap, Earn and History sit in the side rail. Ctrl K searches assets and addresses. The vault panel shows Tor, auto-lock and whether any unlimited approval is active.

Tor needs a moment to connect at launch. If it is not ready within 60 seconds, a request fails and nothing is sent in the clear.

6. Receive, then send a little

1. Open an asset and choose Receive. Copy the address, or use the QR code.
2. Send a small amount from wherever your coins are now.
3. Back in Kyro, check that it arrives.
4. Send a small amount out. Kyro asks for your password, then shows the decoded transaction in a system window. Read it, then confirm.

Worth a look in Settings

• Privacy. The anonymous weekly count is on by default, over Tor only. You can turn it off here.
• Security. Check your phrase again, and for Monero, set the scan height.
• Networks. Point a blockchain at your own node.