# Use Gnosis Safe as Circles Wallet **URL:** \ **Category:** Circles technical\ **Created:** [November 10, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338 "2020-11-10T20:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alculexum](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/alculexum/32/108_2.png) [@alculexum](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/alculexum)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/1 "2020-11-10T20:07:20Z")
Circles comes with circles.garden as a web wallet for Circles (CRC Tokens). Internally, during the setup, a smart contract is deployed as a multisignature wallet. This smart contract is a [Gnosis Safe](https://gnosis-safe.io/) contract, therefore the Gnosis Safe web wallet can be used to access the Circles wallet. ## Open Gnosis Safe in read-only mode This step-by-step-guide shows how to reuse the Gnosis Safe web wallet for Circles. 1. Login to [circles.garden/profile](https://circles.garden/profile), click on “Your Profile” ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aboutcircles/original/1X/b3ca6d67d206458b0a0822a91cc9a29caa96baaf.png) 2. Note down the address shown in the URL of your browser, eg. [Circles UBI | Wallet](https://circles.garden/profile/YOUR_PROFILE_ADDRESS) it starts with “0x” ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aboutcircles/original/1X/021c8d5ec667716cfde630593e674dffed53dea2.png) 3. Go to [https://xdai.gnosis-safe.io/app/#/safes/YOUR\_PROFILE\_ADDRESS/balances](https://xdai.gnosis-safe.io/app/#/safes/YOUR_PROFILE_ADDRESS/balances) So are now in read-only mode, but can see the current balances of your (and other) CRCs, but also xDai and other Tokens. ## Import wallet address for write access _Note: For write access you need xDai on your account, a small amount like $0.1 already allows for some dozen transactions. You can try [https://gnosisfaucet.com/](https://gnosisfaucet.com/) - if it doesn’t work, ask someone for sending $0.1 to your wallet address._ 1. Visit circles.garden in Google Chrome, open developer tools with Ctrl+Shift+I 2. Go to Storage/Local Storage/[https://circles.garden](https://circles.garden) 3. Copy private key (circles-production-mainnet-privateKey) ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aboutcircles/original/1X/fee4486d5ff79b95de9e64892556941133d8bb90.jpeg) 4. Install [Nifty Wallet](https://www.poa.network/for-users/nifty-wallet) or [MetaMask](https://metamask.io/) in Chrome 5. Import Account with copied private key ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/aboutcircles/original/1X/9fb0228f0a384688d1feb875cf53a2933b60b356.jpeg) Now you have “write-access” and can also send Tokens as the one Owner of the multisig Gnosis Safe is imported to the browser wallet. You can now add new multisig users, but be aware that this might conflict with the original garden wallet. ---
**Author:** ![MalthusJohn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/malthusjohn/32/101_2.png) [@MalthusJohn](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/MalthusJohn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/2 "2020-11-10T22:03:46Z")
Good work! Links do work here, would be nice to have them operational. Also, not sure what Martin had in mind specifically, but screenshots are very helpful to new users with low technical savvy. Each step depicted clearly so they know they’ve got it right, etc. Nice job though! ---
**Author:** ![martin\_koeppelmann](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/martin_koeppelmann/32/313_2.png) [@martin\_koeppelmann](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/martin_koeppelmann)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/3 "2020-11-10T22:20:03Z")
Thank you @alculexum - potentially a few screenshots would indeed improve further. Also a tipp to add: you will need xDAI on your account to pay transaction fees - you can get some which will be enough for many transaction here at this faucet: [https://xdai-faucet.top/](https://xdai-faucet.top/) ---
**Author:** ![alculexum](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/alculexum/32/108_2.png) [@alculexum](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/alculexum)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/4 "2020-11-11T08:19:57Z")
Yes, didn’t think of screenshots here, but totally makes sense, will add them - for the links, it is actually not possible to add more than two links in a post for “new users”. Seems like a quite useless spam protection. ---
**Author:** ![alculexum](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/alculexum/32/108_2.png) [@alculexum](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/alculexum)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/5 "2020-11-11T14:56:47Z")
Ok, should be more clear now - to me, the xDai faucet only worked some weeks ago, afterwards I couldn’t it get to run. Is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![martin\_koeppelmann](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/martin_koeppelmann/32/313_2.png) [@martin\_koeppelmann](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/martin_koeppelmann)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/6 "2020-11-11T15:40:54Z")
to me it still worked a few days ago - anyhow thanks for the screenshots! ---
**Author:** ![MalthusJohn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/malthusjohn/32/101_2.png) [@MalthusJohn](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/MalthusJohn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/7 "2020-11-12T14:00:07Z")
BAM! 🤩 Awesome level achieved!! ---
**Author:** ![johanbove](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/johanbove/32/113_2.png) [@johanbove](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/johanbove)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/8 "2020-11-14T14:27:45Z")
What’s an Xdai faucet for? Before Circles I hadn’t heard of Dai and xDai and didn’t own ETH. I managed to transfer XLM I got from Stellar and Keybase, to ETH, which I then converted to Dai and swapped to xDai, and now I found out there are xDai faucets 🙂 Did I just throw away tokens? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alculexum](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/alculexum/32/108_2.png) [@alculexum](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/alculexum)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/9 "2020-11-14T14:58:00Z")
Don’t know if it has to be so complicated, but you did the right thing, faucets were only meant for “easy onboarding” or “easy blockchain adoption” to enable someone to try out dapps without having to go through all the annoying centralized, not really regulated entities like Centralized Exchanges. But they would only provide enough for gas (like equivalent of $0.01 or something) and are completely dependent on a sponsor. So for example the faucet mentioned above stopped working for me at least. You can’t rely on the sponsors, exchanging other Tokens to DAI and then bridge to xDai is the way to go. ---
**Author:** ![johanbove](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/johanbove/32/113_2.png) [@johanbove](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/johanbove)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/10 "2020-11-14T15:10:03Z")
Thanks for that clarification. Makes sense. My path to xDai was like that because I didn’t own ETH, so it didn’t cost me a single Euro cent to get to xDai. ---
**Author:** ![adz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@adz](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/adz)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/11 "2021-03-22T13:05:06Z")
Thank you for this tutorial @alculexum! Would you be interested in writing a version for the [Circles Handbook](https://handbook.joincircles.net)? I think its a super introduction into Circles also for developers. It would be possible to write it directly in form of a markdown document inside the [GitHub - CirclesUBI/circles-handbook: Documentation of the Circles UBI system](https://github.com/CirclesUBI/circles-handbook) repository (`docs/developers` folder). I’m happy to review and help when needed! ---
**Author:** ![alculexum](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/alculexum/32/108_2.png) [@alculexum](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/alculexum)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/12 "2021-03-23T15:09:50Z")
Hi, I added a PR here: [Add tutorials section with sub-tutorials. by ice09 · Pull Request #22 · CirclesUBI/circles-handbook · GitHub](https://github.com/CirclesUBI/circles-handbook/pull/22) ---
**Author:** ![adz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@adz](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/adz)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/13 "2021-03-23T15:25:23Z")
Super! Thank you! 🤩 ---
**Author:** ![DeanCrowe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.aboutcircles.com/deancrowe/32/171_2.png) [@DeanCrowe](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/u/DeanCrowe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.aboutcircles.com/t/use-gnosis-safe-as-circles-wallet/338/14 "2021-04-21T03:47:02Z")
Thank you this is really useful ! 😉