THELOGICALINDIAN - If you own EOS or eosDAC ERC20 tokens you charge to annals your Ethereum abode with an EOS accessible abode to accept the bill on the EOS arrangement This commodity will appearance you footfall by footfall how to annals your coins
After a about year-long ICO, the EOS capital net is assuredly accessible to launch. The EOS badge was originally created on the Ethereum blockchain to accession money for development, with the abstraction that the tokens would be communicable to the mainnet already it launches. The badge affairs themselves are adamantine coded to stop alive at a specific date and time. For EOS, the date is June 2, 2018, at 11:59 UTC. For eosDAC, it is June 1, 2018, at 11:59 UTC.
If you appetite to verify these times for yourself, you can analysis the arrangement code. For example, here’s the cipher for the eosDAC contract. You can acquisition how that converts to your bounded time by application this website.
This adviser will appearance you what you charge to do to affix your EOS and eosDAC tokens to a accurate EOS accessible address. When the EOS capital net launches abutting month, the ERC20 tokens captivated in the registered Ethereum abode will be accustomed on your EOS address.
The aboriginal affair you will charge to do is analysis to see if your tokens are already registered. To analysis your tokens, archetype the Ethereum abode you originally had your EOS/eosDAC tokens beatific to and chase for it on any Ethereum block charlatan (e.g. Etherscan). Analysis the “Tokens” drop-down card to verify that this abode has the EOS/eosDAC tokens. If you accept tokens in assorted addresses, you’ll charge to either move the tokens to a distinct abode or annals anniversary Ethereum address.
Once you accept absolute that your Ethereum abode holds EOS/eosDAC tokens, go to the EOS admission website and ascribe your abode in the Token Registration box on the left-hand ancillary of the page. If your tokens are already registered, you’ll see a bulletin like the one below. You can additionally see how abundant time you accept larboard to annals your tokens as well. Keep in apperception that eosDAC tokens will be disabled a abounding day afore the EOS tokens are disabled.
If your tokens are not yet registered, advance to the abutting step.
The easiest way to go about breeding your EOS keys is to use the official EOS website, however, back the EOS ICO is bankrupt to U.S. residents, if you are in the United States, you will accept to use the another method.
EOS.io Method
For a footfall by footfall beheld adviser of the EOS.io method, click here.
Alternate Method
If you apperceive your way about GitHub and accept a web server and PHP installed on your bounded machine, you can cull the cipher anon from GitHub, analysis it, and run it yourself. You can appearance the changes fabricated from the aboriginal cipher here. It is important to agenda that the cipher does not in any way canyon any advice into an alien website or bounded accumulator on your machine. All it does is accomplish a key brace and affectation it. That’s it.
Of course, if you’re a little beneath tech savvy, or you don’t accept a web server installed on your bounded machine, and you assurance GitHub to run the cipher displayed in the codebase, you can appointment https://nadejde.github.io/eos-token-sale/ to accomplish your key. For added security, accomplish abiding to abstract your computer from the internet afore breeding your keys.
As with the added methods, accomplish abiding you archetype both your clandestine and accessible keys and accumulate them in a safe place. You’ll charge your accessible key to accomplishment the allotment action and you’ll charge your clandestine key back it comes time to absolutely use the EOS capital net.
Once you’ve cautiously backed up your keys, its time to annals your EOS abode (public key). You will charge to do this for all Ethereum addresses that accept an EOS/eosDAC badge balance. What you’ll be accomplishing is active whats alleged the “register” adjustment on the EOS Ethereum arrangement alleged “EOS Contribution.” This complete actual complicated, but MyEtherWallet (MEW) provides a actual accessible way to do it.
If you accept Ethereum stored on MEW, a Ledger Nano S, or Trezor, you can use the MEW interface to annals your coins. If you accept tokens stored on a altered wallet, you’ll charge to acceptation the clandestine key into MEW, or actualize a new MEW wallet and move the bill to that address.
Remember – June 1st is alone a few canicule away, so don’t put this off!
For our readers who abundance EOS or eosDAC on an exchange, bethink the saying, “Not your keys, not your Bitcoins!” – or in this case, EOS. The best affair to do is to cautiously abundance your tokens in a claimed wallet and annals them yourself.
What do you anticipate about the accessible mainnet launch? Are you an EOS badge holder? Let us apperceive in the comments below!
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