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# What you need to get started

Welcome to Base. \
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A welcoming community, open to all ideas, creativity and connection. \
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To get started you are going to need a few things.\
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1\. A Wallet - known as an EVM Wallet - This is where you store all your tokens / NFTs and can control transactions / interactions with WEB3 applications. There are many available. The most common you may have heard of are Coinbase Wallet, Metamask, Phantom. Set one up and make sure you keep the private key / seed phrase safe\
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2\. You will need some Ethereum. This is the currency required on Base chain to main all transactions ( swaps, nft swap etc ).  See [how to obtain Base ETH page](/how-to-obtain-base-eth.md).\
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3\. Social presence and an ability to DYOR. We can't tell you exactly how to do this, its complication and theres information everywhere! Twitter, Warpcaste, Telegram, Drakula the list goes on. If you do want to chat with some Basejumpers, join our [Telegram.](https://t.me/basejumppro)