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# 3. Hot wallets: generate, fund, back up and sweep

Create a strategy wallet, fund it, back it up, and get your funds back out.

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Every Surge strategy trades from its own hot wallet, not your main wallet. That keeps each strategy's funds separate and lets strategies sign their own trades without a wallet pop-up every time.

### What you'll learn

* How to generate hot wallets
* How backups and exports work
* How to fund a wallet with ADA and tokens
* How to send, sweep and safely remove wallets

### Generate a wallet

1. Open **Wallets** and click **Generate**.
2. Choose how many wallets to create and give them a label. You can hold up to 20.
3. Optionally, assign a strategy right away.

Surge creates a fresh Cardano key in your browser. There's no 24-word seed phrase. Each wallet is secured by a single private key, which is encrypted in this browser and backed up to your account.

### Fund a wallet

1. Open the wallet and click **Fund**.
2. Choose ADA and any tokens from your connected wallet.
3. Sign once in your wallet. The balance updates when the transaction confirms.

### Wallet actions

| Action | What it does                                                         |
| ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Fund   | Moves ADA and tokens from your connected wallet into the hot wallet  |
| Send   | Sends assets from the hot wallet to any address                      |
| Sweep  | Pulls funds from your hot wallets back to your main wallet in one go |
| Export | Downloads your wallets as JSON or CSV                                |
| Import | Restores wallets from an exported file                               |

### What each wallet card shows

* Balance and tokens held
* How many strategies use the wallet
* Whether the wallet is backed up to your account

### Before you delete a wallet

* **Withdraw first.** Sweep or send its funds out before deleting.
* **Keep a copy.** Export your wallets and store the file somewhere safe.
* **It can't be undone.** If a wallet isn't backed up or exported, its assets are lost for good once deleted.

### Next

[4. Dashboard, Portfolio and Activity](/tutorials/4.-dashboard-portfolio-and-activity.md)


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