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# Creating a KnightSafe Account

### Step 1 - Get your MetaMask wallet ready

The MetaMask wallet address will be the default owner of KnightSafe Wallet on account creation.

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### Step 2 - Click on the Create New Wallet Button

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### Step 3 - Customize wallet initial setting and submit

Make sure your MetaMask is connected to KnightSafe Wallet

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Finish the initial settings or skip for now.  Except for the chain selection, owner could always change these settings after KnightSafe Wallet creation.

<details>

<summary>Chain Selection</summary>

Select the chain your KnightSafe Wallet to be deployed on, and the default chain would be Arbitrum.  Currently KnightSafe is supporting both Ethereum and Arbitrum. &#x20;

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<summary>Add Traders</summary>

Default setting would be no traders if you do not add any trader address here.  \
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Even the owner could not trade or withdraw any asset if the owner address is not added in the authorized trader address list. &#x20;

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<details>

<summary>Add Whitelist Address</summary>

Default whitelist will include the owner and the newly created KnightSafe Wallet address.  Assets could only be sent to whitelisted address.

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<summary>Whitelist Token</summary>

No token is whitelisted under the default setting.

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<summary>Whitelist Apps</summary>

No app is whitelisted under default settings.  You could customize your authorization by only enable certain function of the app.

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### Submit and pay the gas fee on-chain

That's it!  After the confirmations completed on-chain, your KnightSafe Wallet is good to go!&#x20;

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#### For the full definition of each role, please refer to our previous article How to Use.

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