Go Pocket Wallet 101: Basic features explained
By: Go Pocket
Tags: Arbitrum, Ethereum, Wallet, Layer2, Crypto

What’s Go Pocket?

Go Pocket is an Ethereum scaling focused, Layer-2 native crypto wallet.

It supports Ethereum ecosystem and its scaling network Arbitrum in the first release. You can easily access your asset and move them between Ethereum Mainnet and Arbitrum network with Go Pocket.

Installation of Go Pocket

In Go Pocket official website choose iOS or Android.

For iOS user you will get a testflight link and an APK for android user. We’ll upload to App Store and Google Play later.

Desktop

Go Pocket Desktop will be released later.

Create new wallet or import from seed phrase

Launch Go Pocket. Choose “Create New Wallet” or “Import Seed Phrase”.

Create new wallet

Create a password for Go Pocket to protect it from unexpected exposure.

iOS users can enable Face ID to avoid input password everytime open Go Pocket.

Android user also have an option to disable password input after launch but we don’t recommend you to do it unless you’re pretty sure your phone won’t be lost.

2. Backup your seed phrase. This is strongly recommend to be done on any medium without connection to Internet or any 3rd party access, like a physical paper. You should save it carefully in a secret place. Once your seed phrase is lost, your asset could be in danger. We can’t recover recover your seed phrase.

3. You’ll be asked to verify your seed phrase after backup.

4. Congratulations! Now it’s time to go with Go Pocket.

Import from seed phrase

Create a password for Go Pocket to protect it from unexpected exposure.

iOS users can enable Face ID to avoid input password everytime open Go Pocket.

Android user also have an option to disable password input after launch but we don’t recommend you to do it unless you’re pretty sure your phone won’t be lost. Enter your seed phrase and good to go.

Asset Management

Asset List

You can check your Ether and ERC20 tokens in asset list.

Switch between Total Assets and Assets on Arbitrum

Swipe left and right to show all assets both on Mainnet & Arbitrum or Arbitrum assets only.

Badges & States

No badge: The asset is on Ethereum Mainnet.

Arbitrum badge: The asset is on Arbitrum.

Lock badge: The asset was moved back from Arbitrum to Ethereum Mainnet, but it’s still in lock period (around 7 days). You’ll see multiple items for one coin if there are mulitiple ongoing and locked migration tx.

You can check the estimated remaining time for each migration tx by tapping it.

Move assets between Ethereum Mainnet & Arbitrum

Move assets back and forth is pretty handy in Go Pocket.

Tap Migration button

2. Then choose one asset and move it to destination.

You can also achieve this by swiping left on single coin item.

In coin detail page there’s also a migration button.

Additional explanation for withdraw from Arbitrum to Mainnet

Lock period If you use normal Arbitrum withdraw your asset will be locked for around 7 days since your migration started.

This is a security measure that Arbitrum takes to secure L2 safety, the so called Challenge Period in Arbitrum terminology.

You need to Claim your asset after Challenge Period expires. Just enter corresponding coin item on homepage and tap Claim.

Fast withdraw But , there’s always better solution. You can receive your assets immediately with the help from Fast Withdraw service, while a small portion of service fee will be charged.

We are cooperating with Arbitrum Fast Withdraw providers like Connex and hop soon to make your assets migration faster and smoothly. This feature will release soon.

Manage ERC20 tokens

Tap the + button on homepage then you can:

Add. Normally, Go Pocket will scan all of your non-0 balance ERC20 tokens. You can also add custom tokens by searching token name or contract address.

Toggle visibility on L1 and L2.

Send

Find the coin you want to send in asset list and tap it to open coin detail page.

Fill out address (or scan code) and amount and good to go.

Receive

Provide your address to others by copying address or QR code and they can send something to you.

Check Transactions

You can find the correspoding tx history in coin detail page. Including migration between L1 & L2 logs.

dApp Interactions

Connect with a desktop website

On your computer,

Open a dApp website -> Click “Connect a Wallet” Select Wallet Connect

Then it will show you a QR code.

3. Tap Scan button on the top-right corner of Go Pocket and scan the QR code.

After approve the connection request you’ll see a connection status bar in the bottom of Go Pocket. You can disconnect from it anytime.

Use a mobile dApp directly

In the DeFi tab, you can:

Select L1 or L2 dApps we listed directly

Enter an URL

When connect to mobile dApps, you should also select WalletConnect.

Security Settings

Change password

Change your password anytime if necessary.

Reveal seed phrase

You can reveal your seed phrase after enter password. But beware, this is not a fallback plan for recover your seed phrase. If your phone is lost or Go Pocket reinstalled and your paper backup is missing , no one can help you to recover it.

More Features are being developed.