Importing your Ready Starknet account into Ready X

⚠️This option will be available only upon release of Ready on Base. See the main migration article for more details. 

Choose Import on Ready X if:

• You have NFTs.
• You have an active borrowing position.
• You have STRK staking or another position that cannot be transferred through a normal Send transaction.
• You want to keep your existing Starknet account address.
• You want to keep the transaction history associated with that address.
• You want to manage the complete existing account through Ready X instead of sending assets to a new account.

This process imports the existing Starknet account itself, including its address, assets, transaction history, and positions.

It does not send the assets to a different address.

Important security information

Importing the account is more advanced than sending assets to a new Ready X account.

Before the account can be imported, it must be changed to a standard account by disabling its existing ready guardian protection.

The following limitations apply:

• The imported account will not be backed up by Ready X.
• You cannot add email-based 2FA to the imported account.
• The imported account cannot later be converted into a Ready X smart account.
• Your private key will be the only way to access and recover the account.
• You must keep both the private key and the account address somewhere safe.
• Ready cannot recover the account if you lose the private key.

Never share your private key with anyone. Ready Support will never ask you to send it by email, chat, social media, or any other communication channel.

What happens when I disable ready guardian?

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Disabling ready guardian is permanent and cannot be undone. Once it is disabled, you will no longer be able to manage or send from the account through the Ready app, and the account will no longer have Ready’s existing recovery protection. Your private key will become the only way to access the account, and an imported Ready X account cannot be backed up or protected with email-based 2FA. Save both your private key and public account address securely, verify that you recorded them correctly, and import the account into Ready X immediately. 

If your phone is lost, damaged, reset, or the Ready app is reinstalled after ready guardian is disabled but before the account is imported, you will permanently lose access to the account. 

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Before disabling ready guardian

Before you continue, make sure that:

• Ready X is already installed.
• You know how to open the Import from private key flow.
• You have securely saved the full private key.
• You have saved the full public Starknet account address.
• You have compared anything copied or written down with the information shown in Ready.
• Your device has enough battery.
• You have a stable internet connection.
• You have enough uninterrupted time to complete the import immediately.

Do not intentionally pause between disabling ready guardian and importing the account into Ready X.

How do I import the entire account into Ready X?

1. Open the import flow in Ready

In the updated Ready app:

1. Tap Looking for your funds?
2. Review the Your funds are safe screen.
3. Tap Import on Ready X.

The app will guide you through exporting the information needed to import the account.

2. Export and save your private key

1. Tap Show my private key.
2. Read the security warning.
3. Tap Show private key.
4. Securely copy or record the complete private key exactly as displayed.
5. Compare the complete saved private key with the one shown in Ready, character by character.
6. Do not verify only the first and last characters.
7. Enable the confirmation stating that you have saved the private key.
8. Tap Confirm and continue.

Do not share the private key with anyone.

Do not continue until you are certain that you have saved the entire key correctly and can access it during the Ready X import.

3. Disable ready guardian

Ready must disable the account’s existing ready guardian protection before Ready X can import the account using its private key.

1. Read the Disable ready guardian warning.
2. Confirm that you understand the action cannot be undone.
3. Tap Disable and continue.
4. Approve the transaction.
5. Wait for the ready guardian disabled confirmation.

After this step, the old Starknet account can no longer be used through the normal Ready app interface.

Continue directly to the Ready X import.

4. Save your public Starknet account address

Ready X requires both:

• The account’s public Starknet address.
• The account’s private key.

If you do not already have the address:

1. In the Ready import screen, tap Show my public address.
2. Copy or securely record the complete address.
3. Confirm that the address begins with 0x.
4. Compare the full saved address with the address shown in Ready, character by character.
5. Do not check only the first and last characters.
6. Keep the address together with the private key until the import is complete.

The public address is not secret, but it must be entered correctly.

5. Open the account import flow in Ready X

Immediately open Ready X.

1. Tap the account switcher at the top of the Ready X screen.
2. Tap Add account.
3. Select Import from private key.
4. Tap Continue.

Do not select Standard Account. That option creates a new account rather than importing the existing one.

6. Enter the account details

On the Import private key screen:

1. Confirm that the network is Mainnet.
2. Enter the public Starknet account address copied from Ready.
3. Enter the private key exported from Ready.
4. Compare both entries with the information you saved.
5. Check every character carefully.
6. Tap Import.

The account address and private key must belong to the same Ready account.

7. Confirm that the account was imported

After the import is complete:

1. Open the imported account in Ready X.
2. Confirm that the full account address matches your old Ready Starknet address.
3. Review the token balances.
4. Check your NFTs and DeFi positions.
5. Confirm that your transaction history and positions are available.

Keep the private key and public account address stored safely even after the import is complete.

The imported account is not backed up and cannot use Ready X email-based 2FA.