You need a wallet to come in. If you have never used one, that is fine. Most people who walk in here have not, and it takes a few minutes.
Here is the whole thing in one line. A wallet is how you pay, and it is how you get back in later. Your wallet provider might use an account, a password, or an email address. We never see any of that.
If we asked for your email and a password, we would have a list of everyone who came here. We would rather not have one at all. When you connect, we see a wallet address and that it has paid. Not a name, not an email.
A card asks who you are. A wallet only asks whether you've paid.
The room was built so nothing you say can be traced back to you. A wallet is the only way to pay that keeps it that way.
Slush is the wallet we use and the one we recommend. It is made by the team behind the chain this runs on, it works in your browser and on your phone, and you can sign in with an account you already have rather than looking after a passphrase.
Get it from slush.app/download, or from the App Store or Google Play. Sign in, and you have a wallet. That is the hard part done, and it was not very hard.
With Slush, you can sign in with Google or Apple. Slush shows how.
Slush gives you two ways in and they are not the same. Signing in with an account you already have leaves you nothing to write down, and if you ever lose that login you lose the wallet with it. Twelve words written on paper keep anyone else out, and anyone who reads them can take what is in the wallet. Pick the one you will really keep safe.
If you already have a Sui wallet you trust, use that instead. On a phone or tablet, Slush is the one this page can open, because those browsers have no add-ons.
Nobody holds your money for you. Not Slush, and not us. And we get nothing for saying any of this: Slush is not part of Cocoon and we have no deal with them.
These screens change from time to time. Slush keeps its own guides at slush.app/guides, and those will always be newer than this page.
Simply top up your new wallet with USDC or USDsui and you're good to go. Both are coins meant to be worth one US dollar, and either is fine. Slush will walk you through buying one with a card or with Apple Pay, depending on where you are. Whoever sells you the coin may charge their own small fee for that.
Whoever takes that payment is a real business with rules to follow. It will ask for your email, and it may ask for a government ID or some other proof of who you are. That is them, not us, and we never see any of it.
Once it is in your wallet there is nothing else to pay. The network fees for using this are on us.
If you already hold dollars on Sui, you're already good to go.
You pay once, in the room. It opens. Nothing recurring, nothing to cancel, nothing that renews quietly a year from now.
From that moment your wallet is the key to what you make here. Connect the same wallet on any device and it lets you back in.
Your files download to your own machine when you are finished. Plain text, yours, and they work with any AI.
We also offer to keep an encrypted copy for you, for the next 24 months. It is locked to your wallet, so you are the one who opens it, and nothing on our side reads it. It is there if you lose the files or change computer. Or if this isn't a machine you wish to keep a copy on.
Think of that copy as a spare key. The real files are the ones you downloaded, so save them somewhere you will find them again.
Align takes 60+ minutes, best done in one sitting. A laptop or desktop is easiest. You can stop and come back to finish in the same browser, so start on the device you'll finish on.