# Use Polkadot with Nova wallet A hands-on workhsop on staking and participating in governance on Polkadot with Nova wallet. --- ## Agenda - Download wallet and send address to receive KSM _(~10 minutes)_ - Learn by doing: staking, voting, delegating _(30 minutes)_ - Q&A --- ## Workshop overview  1. ⬇️ Download Nova wallet on your phones 1. ✍️ Create a wallet, save your seed phrases securely 1. 🙋‍♂️ Raise your hands and I'll send you some KSM Note: **Why KSM?**: in order to use features that aren't available on other chains, experimental network. **⚠️About saving your seed phrase:** Th, so it is reasonable to save it in a way that is not "Best practice". Security is contextual, and given that this is just for practice, it is ok for you to save your seed phrase into a password manager. Please don't just leave it on your desktop. That is sloppy. When you are ready to start making serious transactions and meaningly practicipate in governance processes, please set yourself up with a properly secured seed phrase. This is important for protecting your access and a cruicial part of responsible community participation. While everyone sends me their addresses, go over things to note about Nova wallet and its key features. Show block explorer or Polkadot JS apps to see on-chain activity. --- ## Let's discover * Staking: nominating and joining a pool * Governance: proposals, voting mechanism Note: unstaking, ensure you have enough balance for transaction fees, make sure not to send tokens below ED. Voting: lock-up periods, meaning behind passing and failing proposals. --- ## More things to discover.. * Create a proxy account * Swap tokens * Use in app app-browser --- ## Other things to help you use Polkadot * Account overview with: https://sub.id/ * Polkadot staking dashboard: https://staking.polkadot.network/