Your new Ready account needs to be activated before it can be used for any outgoing transactions. To activate it, you will need to send at least one outgoing transaction from within this account.
For this you need ETH or STRK in your Ready account (not in another wallet, you cannot pay network fees for Starknet activation from other chains or accounts).
You can top-up your Ready account by going to Assets tab > Fund.
IMPORTANT:
1. You can only pay network fees in ETH or STRK. If the app tells you you need ETH, it might be due to the account being older, you need ETH to activate and upgrade the account before it starts accepting STRK as a gas token.
2. You need to send assets on Starknet network to your Starknet address, not to any other address.
Paying network fees for wallet activation
The network fee will come from your Ready balance. Smart contract deploy transaction is a transaction onchain. Every transaction onchain requires network fee to be processed. Ready doesn't profit from network fees, they go to the blockchain.
When topping up your account for the first time, before deployment, you might see a warning in bridge or wallet you are using that the recipient address is not deployed. Make sure the address is correct and feel free to proceed.
How long does it take to activate?
There will be a short wait for your wallet to activate as it requires a blockchain transaction to complete. It may be just a few minutes, but at times of high network congestion this may rise to several hours. We're sorry if that's the case but unfortunately there's nothing we can do.
Activation fee consent
Ready account has an address on Starknet since the moment you create it. Unless the address is a deployed smart contract (which happens upon activation only), there is no way to prevent any incoming transaction to it. It means we can't stop you from sending wrong asset to your wallet or wrong amount.
Signing the network fee (submitting your first transaction onchain) means you agree to the activation fee. Without signing this transaction Ready will not automatically activate.
You can only send assets from your Ready account after its smart contract is deployed. This happens automatically with your first outgoing transaction. Ready account needs all smart contract features to work, which requires the contract to be deployed first.
Need any assistance?
Please email help@ready.co