MAID/eMAID to ANT Airdrop Update

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I bought a bunch of emaid through the coinbase wallet app recently. So now should I send my emaid to the metamask wallet that I made for testing the current autonomy network?

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If you can send them then no need to move them, being able to send them shows you have the private keys in your wallet.

Does coinbase use a 12 word phrase?

If it does then you can just create a MM wallet with that 12 word phrase and your tokens will be there.

Wallets only store keys, not the blockchain assets accessed with those keys

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You only need to import the private key to OmniWallet and then you can immediately do the signature signing and burn transaction. It’s just a temporary staging area that you can use, have used OmniWallet for long time and never had any issues. If your private key is added and the tokens are accessible for short time (only for you anyways) can just proceed to burn & claim the ANT tokens.

Here’s small guide what we can expect:

  1. Collect every address and the corresponding private key that stores your MAID.
  2. Now copy the address and check if the BTC balance is sufficiently high to perform a OMNI transaction (e.g. when you burn the MAID from your personal address X to the burn address Z).
  3. Top up every address with the minimum amount of BTC for moving (no need to use omniwallet yet).
  4. Now you are ready to start the sign & burn process, so create a new omniwallet account, set 2-FA for optimal security. And check if you can logout and login again successfully before adding any private keys.
  5. At TGE it’s expected we get some similar on-boarding for MAID as we had for burn process when minting eMAID. Most likely there will be a website where you need to provide some details regarding your address or they will ask you to sign a certain message using the corresponding private key. This is where you first add your private key. Once the message has been signed and they recognized it, some automatic mechanism will be checking whether this approved address (which must be supplying an ETH address for the minting/airdrop) has burned X amount of tokens to the MAID burn address.
  6. After signing, go to the withdraw omni asset, select the address and transfer the MAID to the burn address. That’s it. Nobody can access the MAID anymore.
  7. Tripple check your ETH address that will be receiving the ANT tokens equivalent to what you have burned. If you put the wrong ETH address, the burn is irreversible, and your tokens will most likely be lost forever.
  8. Wait ANT enjoy to receive your airdropped tokens!
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Could the Maid, from an address, be split and only a portion of them burned while the rest are kept until the existence of the native token?

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I have asked and no answer.

Guess we have to wait.

If we cannot then you burn some and send the rest to a new address for later

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@Dimitar is it safe to have eMAID in Trezor directly? Will the corresponding ANT be associated in Trezor correctly?

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you will need to activate the experimental features in the trezor suite (and activate L2 support + add the Arbitrum Network) to see them if you want to use the native application instead of Metamask

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What Riddim says, but there is really no reason not to use MetaMask with Trezor connected to it. MetaMask and Trezor Suite are only a GUI for the keys, there is no danger in using any of them.

Check out the Dev Forum

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Not so obvious. I an send my EMAID from BitMart account, but I don’t have private keys, it’s still BitMart’s address. I don’t know how Coinbase works, but this sentence is not always true.

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well - technically then you’re not able to send them - right? you ask bitmart to send them and they may or not may do it … but it’s not you who does it …

if someone else is able to impose withdrawal limits onto you it’s not you sending :slight_smile:

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Could you keep us in the loop wrt the BnkToTheFuture MaidSafe share-holders and how we get our tokens?

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I think the context is tokens stored on the Coinbase self-custody wallet; not coinbase itself.

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Thank you everyone for your help!

Did we get definitive clarification on MEW? I have my emaid on MEW. Do I need to have a different private wallet for the airdrop or is MEW ok?

Maybe @rusty.spork can clarify?

Thanks guys!

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In MEW it says that they have already added Arbitrum, so it will work. However, make sure you have the Seed words written down so you can use another wallet if necessary. To switch to Arbitrum, click on Ethereum at the top left and select Arbitrum:

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Check out the Dev Forum

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Thank you @Dimitar !

Forgive my sillyness! Do I just leave as is for now (i.e.Ethereum)? You mean sellect Arbitrum after the airdrop?

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It doesn’t matter. Your wallet does not hold tokens, they are on the blockchain. Your wallet holds keys with which you can move tokens from one address in the blockchain to another address.

Check out the Dev Forum

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Thank you Dimitar. So do I need to do anything else, or will my emaid just change to ANT when the airdrop happens?

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eMAID will remain and the TGE will deposit ANT to the same account. The eMAID is worthless after TGE except for “Look at this shiny object”

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Thanks @neo !

Its beginning to make sense now. So I literally do nohting. The TGE knows my account and will do this without my involvment?

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They obtain all addresses and amounts that have eMAID from the blockchain during the snapshot. Simple blockchain query gives this.

Then deposit an equivalent amount of ANT into those addresses.

All while you sleep (or do nothing)

Only requirement is that the person has their eMAID in a ETH address they have full control over and that is have the private keys in their own wallet. (not an exchange or such thing)

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