# How to use the wallet These are basic instructions on how to create an account and obtain your first assets in the [Tiramisu wallet ](https://mainnet.tiramisuwallet.com/walletapp/)- a wallet for [Taproot Assets Protocol](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/taproot-assets/taproot-assets-protocol). ## How to create an account To create a [Tiramisu wallet](https://mainnet.tiramisuwallet.com/walletapp/) account press the [Sign Up](https://mainnet.tiramisuwallet.com/walletapp/user/login/?next=/walletapp/balances) button at the to right corner.

You will be redirected to a form where you will have to fill out your username and password.

After a successful sign up you should be able to [log in](https://mainnet.tiramisuwallet.com/walletapp/user/create/?next=/walletapp/user/login/) by using the same credentials you have used to create your account. [Tiramisu Wallet](https://mainnet.tiramisuwallet.com) intentionally does not require email address as a part of the sign up process to maintain a level of annonymity and as a proof that we do not intend to send you any spam / marketing communications. ## My first funds in the wallet Once you create your account you will may see that sometimes new users are awarded small amount of Bitcoin to start trading.

## Obtaining my first Taproot Assets Use the exchange functionality to obtain your first Taproot assets in the wallet. Clicking on the [Assets](https://mainnet.tiramisuwallet.com/walletapp/currencies/) button in the left menu will open a list of currencies available for exchange. Price of each currency is represented as number of SATs / Satoshis per unit of currency. Click on one of the currencies that you wish to purchase.

Then scroll lower and press [buy LP](https://mainnet.tiramisuwallet.com/walletapp/buy_taro_asset/?currency=MAXImalists) button.

Select the amount of currency units you wish to buy and then press Buy Assets button.

After a short period of time you will see a confirmation screen

Confirmation that an exchange was successful

Clicking on [My Wallet](https://testnet.tarowallet.net/walletapp/balances) in the left menu will show you that you now have the amount of currency that you decided to exchange and that an amount of your testnet BItcoin was deducted.

New currency in the wallet after exchange

You will now see two additional transaction representing the outgoing Bitcoin and he incomming currency.

## Withdrawing Taproot assets {% embed url="" %} At this stage in Taproot assets development most people use Tiramisu wallet to test their own taproot assets nodes (tapd nodes). In order to receive taro from Tiramisu wallet you will first have to generate a taproot assets address / taproot assets invoice. This requires an amount and a asset id.

To obtain asset id from Tiramisu wallet press My wallet in the left menu and click on the send button under one of the currencies. ( You can also see asset ids under every currency in your wallet and cn copy it by pressing the copy button. )

This will open the Send Taproot Asset dialog. Press the copy button to copy Genesis bootstrap info into your clipboard.

Paste your genesis asset ID as an input of your tarocli addrs new command.

The genesis bootstrap info can be very long string. The command will gelerate a json string. Copy the value under the key encoded.

and past the value into taro invoice textbox in the end taro assets dialog

Then press pay invoice button and wait for the transaction to be processed.

You should now see the asset after typing tarocli assets list comman

The amound you have sent will be deducted from your ballance.