How to Create a Solana Crypto wallet in 2026

Its a new year and there are a great many ways to begin when it comes creating a wallet to hold your crypto currency in 2026 in the past years the process of creating a wallet has been getting easier and easier but with all the options out there let me break down into 10 steps you can take to be on your way. Step one: Pick a wallet application

When it comes to When it comes to Solana you have two paths to go on; One Hardware wallets and Two Browser wallets for the sake of simplicity we will focus on browser wallets in this article. The current eco-system has many wallet providers which the most prominent is Phantom, followed by Soleflare and Jupiter.

Step two: Create a passphrase once you have selected a wallet provider the process is similar across the board the next step is you have to create and record the passphrase each wallet will give you a 12 to 24 word memonic pasphrase which you need to record in some fashion you can copy paste it into a file take a photo or do the most secure thing and write it down.

Step three: Create a password and add assets.

Now that you have your passphrase you should be prompted to create a password that you can use to login to your wallet. after you login you can see your public wallet address and you can use that to aquire funds by sharing that with your a Central exchange or a Decentralized exchange or with a friend who wants to share some cryto currency.

With that you have all the steps to create and use a wallet simply. If you would like to learn more about wallets you can find a more advanced guide in the future.