[SERIOUS] Link Your Reddit Vault to MetaMask

Today Reddit went down for a brief period of time. For those of you who experienced the outage and tried to access your account it may have looked as though you were banned. No post history was showing up, I couldn't see my user profile, and worst of all I didn't have access to my Vault. I was however able to verify that my Moons were safe and sound in my Vault because I linked it to my MetaMask. Now, if you were to get banned or suspended for whatever reason, you wouldn't be able to access your Vault. See Reddit's terms of service agreement here:

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If your Account is suspended, then you will be unable to access your Vault (including any Verified Virtual Goods in it) until the suspension ends. If your Account is banned, then you may, at Reddit’s discretion, be unable to access your Vault (including any Verified Virtual Goods in it) indefinitely.

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Today's outage basically mimicked what it would look like if you were banned. You wouldn't be able to access your own Moons without Reddit's discretion. This is the anti-thesis to self-custody.

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Here is a quick guide to link your Vault to MetaMask (credit to u/Wargizmo):

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• Go to the reddit app and go to your reddit vault. You'll need

1) your public address

and

2) and your seed phrase

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• Open metamask and create a new account using your seed phrase. (You'll need a fresh install of metamask because for some reason it only lets you import using a private key instead of a seed phrase if you already have an account active; make sure you remember your old account details so you can get it back - there are also tools to convert seed phrase to private key but be careful with these and make sure you aren't connected to the internet if you use them)

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• NOTE: if you install it on a separate device or browser you can then export the private key from the new metamask and then use the exported key to import into your regular old metamask as a new imported account.

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• Now you need to add the Arbitrum Nova network to metamask. In settings -> network input the following: Newtowk name: Arbitrum Nova, RPC Url: https://nova.arbitrum.io/rpc , Chain ID: 42170

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• Now switch to the Arbitrum Nova network in the top right corner

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• You now need to add moons token. You can get the token address by going to https://nova-explorer.arbitrum.io and copying your public address from your reddit vault and pasting it into the explorer. Under tokens you should see your moons (and bricks or other reddit tokens you might have). Click on moons and where it says "contract" copy this string of characters. If you don't see it, it means your moons haven't been transferred to the new network yet, give it time.

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• From your metamask wallet (which should now be set to the Arbitrum Nova network) you'll be able to click "import tokens". Under token address, paste the contract address you copied from the previous step, for token symbol MOON should come up automatically, set token decimal to 18 and click import.

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• Congratulations, you now have self-custody of your Moons without needing Reddit to access them.

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