Using Your Vesseo Backup Phrase for Transactions on the Stellar Network

To demonstrate one method to make transactions outside of Vesseo, here is a tutorial on how to send transactions from your Vesseo account’s underlying Stellar address without using Vesseo.

Before you start, make sure that you have the following ready:

1. Your Stellar address - You can find this by going to Profile > Stellar address
2. Your 12-word backup phrase - You can create this by going to Profile > Privacy & Security > Back up your account
3. Funds in your Vesseo account - You can’t make transactions without funds

Then, follow these steps:

1. Launch Stellar Laboratory and build a transaction. 
   • Here are the required fields:
     • Source account: Your Stellar address
     • Operation type: Payment.

Note: You can also do other operations with this wallet address

• Be sure to tap “Sign in Transaction Signer” when you’re done

2. Extract your secret key from your backup phrase. You can do this from your terminal with the stellar-hd-wallet package. That said, any Stellar key derivation library (SEP-5) will do.

From Terminal: 

npm install stellar-hd-wallet && node

const StellarHDWallet = require('stellar-hd-wallet');
const mnemonic = "<insert your 12 word backup phrase>"
const wallet = StellarHDWallet.fromMnemonic(mnemonic);
console.log("Secret Key:", wallet.getSecret(0));

3. Sign your transaction
   • Back in Stellar Laboratory, enter your secret key under “Add Signer” 
4. Submit your transaction 🎉 That’s it!