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If you have never used Volta Circuit before, read the first four guides in order — they run from an empty wallet to a funded vault that can pay people. The rest cover issuing an asset and calling contracts, and can wait until you need them.
Getting started
Install a Stellar wallet, fund it, and connect it to your account.
Read the guide →Creating a vault
Deploy a multi-signature contract account and get assets into it.
Read the guide →Owners and thresholds
Who votes, how votes are counted, and how many it takes to move funds.
Read the guide →Sending and receiving
Move XLM and other Stellar assets in and out of a vault safely.
Read the guide →Buying XLM
Fund a Stellar vault by card, without opening an exchange account.
Read the guide →Day to day
Where to find balances, history, and who is allowed to act on them.
Read the guide →Assets and swaps
Issue your own Stellar asset controlled by the vault, and trade what a vault holds.
Read the guide →Soroban contracts
Call any Stellar contract from a vault, with a form built from the contract itself.
Read the guide →What you need
- A Stellar wallet. Use Freighter. Your wallet signs transactions; it never gives Volta Circuit custody of your keys.
- A little XLM. Stellar charges a small fee for every transaction, and accounts carry a reserve. Keep a modest XLM balance in the wallet you sign with.
- A Volta Circuit account. Sign up at the dashboard, or accept an invitation if a colleague has already made one for your organisation. You connect your wallet from there.
How a vault differs from a wallet
A Stellar wallet is controlled by one key. A Volta Circuit vault is a contract account with several owners and a threshold: the number of Yes votes a transaction needs before it can be submitted. The threshold is at least two, so nothing ever moves on one person's say-so, and every proposal is visible to the whole team while it waits.
The practical consequence is that losing one key does not lose the funds, and no single person can move them alone.
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