Connect your wallet

One signed message links your wallet to your Strike account. No funds move.

Pick your wallet

Open VESPR's in-app browser and go to app.strikeabox.com. For this app, switch VESPR to Preprod. If it's on Mainnet, the app stops you before you sign anything.

Use MetaMask in your browser, or the browser tab in the MetaMask app. Any network works for connecting. Deposits switch it to Sepolia.

Use Phantom's in-app browser. Strike may not take Solana deposits on testnet; the app shows Strike's answer.

Other wallets work too: Eternl and Lace on Cardano, Rabby on Ethereum. No Strike account yet? Strike makes one for your wallet when you connect.

Connect

1. Open Accounts

   Open the menu and tap Accounts. On a phone, you can also tap your balance at the top right, then Accounts & funds; on a tablet or computer, tap the balance. Live is the first card.

   Playing Demo right now? Tap Play Live on the Live card.

2. Open the setup guide

   Tap Set up Live. It checks your wallet and its network, then walks you through the rest.

   Set up Live: each step is checked off when it's done.Test build · example values

3. Choose your wallet

   Tap Connect wallet in the guide, or Connect on the Live card. Then pick your wallet.

4. Read before you sign

   Four short rows: testnet only (no real funds), what the key can do, the fees, and that you can disconnect any time. Then tap Agree and continue.

5. Sign Strike's message

   Your wallet shows the same text. Check the address, then sign. The button names your wallet, for example Sign in VESPR.

   Sign within 5 minutes, or start again.

6. You're connected

   Your balance at the top right now shows your Strike balance in dollars. The Live card under the board offers Add funds. Next: Add funds.

The exact message you sign

This is the exact text Strike asks you to sign. The values in angle brackets are filled in for you:

Connect to Strike via builder "strikeabox".
This authorizes the builder to collect up to 1% fee on your trades.
Referral attribution: none.
By signing, you are entrusting your API wallet private key to this builder. You trust the builder to store and use this key responsibly.
Wallet: <address>
Chain: <chain>
API Key: <public key>
Nonce: <nonce>
Timestamp: <time>

Complete verify-signature within 5 minutes; after that the challenge expires.

Line by line:

• Builder "strikeabox". strikeabox is registered with Strike as a builder: an app that places orders for its users.
• Up to 1% fee. The most strikeabox may ever charge per order. Strike enforces it. On this app strikeabox charges 0.05% per order, and every live plan shows the fee in dollars. See Fees.
• Referral attribution: none. Connecting doesn't sign you up under anyone's referral.
• Entrusting your API wallet private key. strikeabox holds the key made for you. See what the key can do.
• Wallet, Chain, API Key. Your address, the chain you picked, and the key the app shows.
• Nonce, Timestamp. They make the signature single-use and time-limited.

If anything differs from what the app shows, don't sign.

What the key can do

It can place and cancel orders and request deposits and withdrawals. Deposits and withdrawals need your wallet's signature, and withdrawals only go to your wallet. The orders it places change your Strike balance by their profit or loss.

The key lives on our server so your boxes can close on time, even with the app closed. It never reaches your browser.

Security and your funds →

Disconnect

Close your open live boxes first. Disconnect deletes our copy of the key at once. You can also revoke it in the Strike testnet app.

1. Open the menu and tap Accounts, then Account › on the Live card.
2. Tap Disconnect, then confirm.

A box still open stays on Strike with its target and stop, but nothing closes it at the window end. Connect the same wallet again and the app picks it up.

Trouble connecting? See Troubleshooting and the Cardano notes.