> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.aeralend.app/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.aeralend.app/getting-started/connect-a-wallet.md). # Connect a wallet Aera is non-custodial. There is no account, no sign-up and no email. Your wallet **is** your account, and every action is a transaction you sign yourself. ## Open the app [aeralend.app](https://aeralend.app) opens straight onto the market. You can read the rates, the liquidity and the collateral terms without connecting anything. ## Connect **Connect wallet** is the lime button at the top right. It opens a dialog listing whichever wallets are installed in your browser.
Pressing Connect wallet and choosing a wallet

Press Connect wallet, pick one, approve it in the extension. The header then shows a short form of your address.

Aera does not choose a wallet for you, and it never connects on its own — if you approved it on an earlier visit, it still waits for you to ask. ## If you do not have a wallet yet Get [**Nightly**](https://nightly.app). It is the wallet Cookie Chain supports, and it is the one Aera suggests when nothing is installed. Install it, create or import a wallet, fund it with COOK, then reload Aera and press **Connect wallet**. ## Once connected The header shows a short form of your address; pressing it opens a panel with the full address, copy, and disconnect. Nothing else changes until you do something. Once you have lent, borrowed or locked, a **Your position** block appears above the market with your balances and — if you have debt — your health factor. ## Wrong network Aera runs on Cookie Chain and nowhere else, and verifies it by reading the chain's genesis hash rather than asking your wallet what network it thinks it is on. If it is reading the wrong chain, the whole page is replaced.
The wrong-network wall

No figures, no buttons. If you see this, sign nothing.

{% hint style="warning" %} This wall means **Aera** is misconfigured, not your wallet — switching networks in your wallet will not clear it. It is re-checked automatically, so if it is being fixed the page recovers on its own. {% endhint %} ## What Aera can and cannot do | It can | It cannot | | ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | | Read your public balances | Move anything without a transaction you sign | | Ask you to sign a transaction | Sign on your behalf | | Read your Aera position | See your seed phrase or private key | Every action builds a transaction, simulates it, shows you the result, and only then asks you to sign. If a simulation fails, nothing is sent. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter, and the optional `goal` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.aeralend.app/getting-started/connect-a-wallet.md?ask=&goal= ``` `ask` is the immediate question: it should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. `goal` is optional and describes the broader end goal you are ultimately trying to accomplish on behalf of the user. GitBook uses it to tailor the answer towards what is most useful for that goal. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.