Redeeming Your Coin
Everything you need to take control of your coin’s address and move what it holds into a wallet of your own. Read it through before you peel the seal.
Before you start
Your coin’s key controls a Bitcoin address, and that address holds three things. Redeeming means taking control of that address and moving what it holds into a wallet of your own.
Peeling the seal is permanent. Once it is off, the coin is no longer a sealed bearer asset, and nothing can restore that — not a replacement seal, not us. Several of the steps that follow are also irreversible: a transaction sent to the wrong address cannot be recalled by anyone.
There is no hurry. The assets sit on Bitcoin whether you redeem today or in ten years, and an unopened coin stays verifiable by anyone at any time. Read this page through before you peel anything.
What you need
| Why | |
|---|---|
| TAP Wallet | Shows and can move all three assets. See section 02 below. |
| A small amount of bitcoin | Every step costs a network fee, and the coin carries none. See section 03 below. |
| An hour, unhurried | Nothing here is difficult, but a rushed step cannot be taken back. |
| A private room | The key is readable by anyone who can see it. |
Which wallet
Your coin controls three things, and they do not all work the same way. The UNAT is an inscription, and it rides one sat together with the coin’s 3D art, so the two always move as one. The two token balances belong to the address itself and move under TAP Protocol’s rules. Not every wallet or explorer displays TAP balances at all.
Use TAP Wallet. It shows the UNAT, the 3D art and both token balances, and it can move all of them. A wallet that handles inscriptions is not necessarily handling the tokens, and one that shows neither will show you an address that looks empty.
If you want to look at what an address holds without importing anything, Tapalytics and Ordinals Wallet both let you search an address for its TAP holdings.
Fees, and why the coin has none
No bitcoin was put on these coins. The small amount you will see at the address on a block explorer is the UTXO that carries the UNAT — it is the inscription itself, not spending money.
So every step costs a fee you bring in yourself. You will send a small amount of bitcoin to the coin’s address first, and that is what pays for the moves that follow.
Peel the seal and read the key
The key is printed on a waterproof sheet attached to the underside of the tamper seal on the coin’s back. Peeling the seal lifts the key away with it and exposes the engraving underneath — your coin number, an image, and its edition number.
Peel slowly and keep the printed sheet flat. It is the only copy of this key that has ever existed. No backup was kept, by us or by anyone.
Typing it in
The key is typed into TAP Wallet by hand. Take your time and double-check the characters as you go — the format carries a checksum, so a mistyped key is rejected rather than quietly importing a different address, but it is still easier to read it once carefully than to hunt for the character you missed.
Check the address your wallet shows against your coin’s address on the verify page. They must match exactly. If they do not, stop and do not move anything.
Move the three assets
Step 1 — send fee funds to the coin’s address
A small amount of bitcoin, from any wallet. This is what pays for everything below.
Step 2 — move the UNAT
Send the inscription to an address you control, using TAP Wallet’s inscription send. The UNAT and the 3D art share one sat and move together.
Wait for it to confirm before continuing.
Step 3 — move 1 DMT-CENT NAT
TAP balances move in two parts. First you inscribe a transferable inscription for the amount you want to move. Then you send that inscription to the address you want the balance to arrive at — one you control. The balance only moves when that second transaction confirms; until then it is still held at the coin’s address.
Step 4 — move 100,000,000 DMT-NAT
The same two parts again, for the second token. The balances are separate; moving one does nothing to the other.
Before you put the key away
Confirm all three have arrived before the key leaves your hand. The token balances are not carried by the sat and do not travel with it.
| Asset | Confirmed when |
|---|---|
| UNAT and 3D art | They appear at your destination address in TAP Wallet. |
| 1 DMT-CENT NAT | The balance appears at your destination address in TAP Wallet. |
| 100,000,000 DMT-NAT | The balance appears at your destination address in TAP Wallet. |
Until all three read as arrived, keep the printed key somewhere safe and private. Once they have, the key opens an empty address.
Afterwards
Your coin’s status on the verify page will change from intact to moved, usually within half an hour.
The coin itself remains what it is: a numbered piece from a hundred, with its engraving now visible and its certificate still matching. The 3D art reveals the engraving once the sat has moved, so the on-chain artwork changes to match the object in your hand.
You can check the address yourself at any time from the Verify link beside your coin on the verify page. Bitcoin is the authority, not this site.