> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dawn.trade/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Import And Export Wallets

> Bring an existing wallet into Dawn, or take a private key out.

Both live in the **wallet manager**, a mini app that opens from inside Telegram. Send `/wallets` and use the two buttons at the bottom of the screen:

| Button        | What it does                                                     |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🔑 **Export** | Reveal a wallet's private key, through Privy's own secure window |
| 🗝 **Import** | Bring a wallet you already own into Dawn                         |

<Warning>
  A private key is complete control of a wallet. Type one only into the import form inside the official Dawn app. Never send a key to support, to a group, to another person, or into any chat — including this one.
</Warning>

## Import a wallet

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the importer">
    `/wallets` → **🗝 Import**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose where it lands">
    Pick the profile that should hold it, and give it a label if you want one. Leave the label blank and Dawn names it **Wallet n** like any other.

    The profile needs a free slot — each one holds **5 wallets**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Give the key, or both keys">
    A Dawn wallet is an EVM address and a Solana address together. You can import:

    * a **Solana** key on its own,
    * an **EVM** key on its own,
    * or **both**, paired into one wallet.

    Import one side only and Dawn creates a fresh address for the other, so the pair is complete.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm">
    The imported wallet becomes the one in use in that profile, and a confirmation card lands in your chat with both addresses.
  </Step>
</Steps>

### Why importing happens in the app

Your key is encrypted **on your own device** before it is sent anywhere, and Dawn never sees it in readable form.

That is also why it is not done in the chat. A key typed as a Telegram message would sit in a chat log as plain text, for as long as that chat exists.

## Export a private key

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the wallet manager">
    `/wallets` → **🔑 Export**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick the wallet">
    Check the label and the address before you go on. If the wallet is in another profile, switch profile in Telegram and reopen the app.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Reveal and store it">
    The key is shown by Privy in its own secure window. Save it somewhere only you can reach — a password manager, not a screenshot and not a chat.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Exporting changes nothing about the wallet. It keeps trading in Dawn exactly as before; you simply also hold the key yourself.

<Note>
  Dawn wallets use individual private keys, not one shared seed phrase. Exporting one wallet reveals that wallet and no other.
</Note>

## If the app opens on the wrong account

The mini app takes its identity from Telegram. If it shows wallets you do not recognise, you have it open from a different Telegram account — close it and reopen from the account you use with Dawn.

If a wallet is missing, check which profile you are in first.