Chapter 5
Using the wallet
Your Blurt wallet brings balances, rewards and account actions together. Once you understand the difference between liquid BLURT and Blurt Power, you can move funds, grow your stake and review every transaction with confidence.
The wallet is an interface, not a vault
Your funds are not stored inside a website. Balances belong to your Blurt account and are recorded on the blockchain; a wallet reads that public account state and prepares the operations you choose.
If one wallet interface is unavailable, your account and balances remain on Blurt. You can use another compatible wallet with the appropriate authority, just as you can use another frontend to publish.
Verify the address
Open your wallet from a trusted bookmark or known source and inspect the complete domain before authorizing an operation.
Match the authority
Viewing public balances requires no private key. Transfers, Power Ups, Power Downs, savings and delegations require Active authority. Posting authority is sufficient to claim rewards.
Keep account control
A routine wallet action should never require your private Owner key or Master Key. Read the requested operation and sign only the action you intended.
Know what each balance means
A Blurt account can hold value in several forms. They belong to the same account but have different purposes and availability.
Liquid BLURT - BLURT available for transfers, Power Up, savings and blockchain transaction fees. This is the immediately spendable balance.
Blurt Power - The wallet-friendly display of your vesting stake. It supports voting influence, witness governance and delegations, but cannot be transferred directly as liquid BLURT.
Savings - Liquid BLURT placed in a separate on-chain balance. Returning it to a spendable balance starts a three-day waiting period under the current protocol.
Claimable rewards - Author and curation rewards waiting to be claimed. A claim moves their liquid and vesting portions into the corresponding account balances.
Send BLURT with confidence
A transfer moves liquid BLURT from your account to another Blurt account. Three checks make the operation clear before you sign it with Active authority.
- 1
Confirm the recipient
Enter the exact recipient account name. For a first transfer, verify the profile or confirm the name through another trusted channel before proceeding.
- 2
Check amount and fee
Keep enough liquid BLURT to cover the amount plus the current blockchain transaction fee. Fees are controlled by the network and a compatible wallet can estimate them before signing.
- 3
Choose the memo carefully
Treat a memo as public unless the wallet explicitly confirms encryption. Never include a private key, Master Key or other secret.
Put BLURT to work
Blurt Power turns tokens into long-term participation. You can increase it with a Power Up or gradually return a selected amount to liquid BLURT with a Power Down.
Power Up
Power Up converts liquid BLURT into vesting stake displayed as Blurt Power. Once the transaction is included, that stake can strengthen your content votes, witness votes and available delegation capacity.
Power Down
Under Blurt’s current protocol, Power Down converts the selected Blurt Power into liquid BLURT through four weekly payments. The first payment arrives approximately one week after the request.
A gradual four-week conversion
- 1 Payment 1
- 2 Payment 2
- 3 Payment 3
- 4 Payment 4
The remaining payments follow weekly until the selected amount is converted. You can change or cancel the request with Active authority; Blurt Power currently delegated to another account must first become available.
Claim and grow your rewards
After content payout, earned BLURT and vesting rewards appear as claimable balances. Claiming places each portion in its usable account balance; it does not change the reward you already earned.
Liquid portion
Claimed reward BLURT joins your liquid balance, ready to transfer, save or Power Up.
Vesting portion
Claimed vesting rewards join your Blurt Power and immediately contribute to the growth of your stake.
Posting can claim
Posting authority is sufficient to claim rewards. Active authority is needed only for the financial or stake action you may choose afterwards.
Use savings and delegation
Two additional wallet tools let you organize liquid funds and share some of your stake-based capacity without giving up ownership.
Savings adds a time delay
Moving liquid BLURT to savings creates a separate on-chain balance. A withdrawal completes after three days and can be cancelled while pending, giving you time to react before the funds become spendable.
Delegation shares capacity
Delegating Blurt Power lets another account use its associated voting influence and resource capacity while you retain ownership. Reducing or removing a delegation starts a one-week return period before that capacity is available again.
A confident wallet routine
Open the wallet from a verified address and confirm the account name shown. Choose the correct balance: liquid BLURT, Blurt Power, savings or claimable rewards. Read the complete operation and use Active authority only when the selected action requires it. Review the current estimated fee and keep enough liquid BLURT to pay it. After broadcast, confirm the result in account history and keep your private keys out of memos.