If you sent mainnet Ethereum to your friend.tech account, you are not alone. We’re excited to see the UX of bridging improve but in the meantime, here’s a quick guide to get access to your assets on any network.
Note that the friend.tech app allows you to easily withdraw Base Eth from your profile directly so this tutorial is for people who sent non-Base eth to their accounts, using a third party wallet to easily switch between networks.
<aside> ⚠️ You’ll need to transfer some actual Base Eth to your friend.tech account. You’ll be stuck on onboarding before you do and won’t be able to follow these instructions.
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<aside> 💡 You need a third-party wallet to transfer assets back out of friend.tech. I’ll use Phantom here as an example but you can use any third-party wallet. Check out the below for more great options!
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Once you are done with this, your friend.tech wallet will be usable both from the friend.tech app and the third-party wallet you imported it into. Accordingly, I don’t recommend using it in the third-party app beyond this asset recovery case.
Account abstraction will do a lot to improve the state of the art here (and we at Privy are really excited to help make this easy for users) but in the meantime, it’s always safer to keep wallets segregated for distinct uses.
<aside> 💪 Better wallet interoperability is essential to better UX in web3! There is a long way to go to improve the UX of asset transfer and embedded wallet controls. If you’re working on a wallet, I’d love to talk with you!
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