Walendria never touches your money — you fund your own wallet, and you stay in control the whole way through. This is a step-by-step guide to getting the currency Walendria uses (xDAI on Gnosis Chain) into your wallet, wherever in the world you happen to be and whatever your country's normal way of paying for things is. Once you have funds, see How to Use the Walendria Website for what to do next.
What you're funding — and why Walendria doesn't do it for you
Walendria is a non-custodial protocol on Gnosis Chain. It has no account, no balance it holds for you, and deliberately no deposit button. That is not a missing feature — it is the whole point. The moment a service holds your money and moves it for you, it stops being a neutral protocol and becomes a money operator. Keeping that out means two things: you stay in control of your own funds at every moment, and Walendria stays a pure piece of on-chain infrastructure.
So funding is something you do, once, with a regulated provider you choose. What you need at the end is simple: some xDAI in your own self-custodial wallet, on Gnosis Chain (chain id 100). On Gnosis, xDAI is both the money you spend on listings and the token that pays gas — so keep a little spare for fees, which run a fraction of a cent.
The shape of it, in three steps
Wherever you are in the world, the path has the same three steps:
- Get a self-custodial wallet — MetaMask, Rabby, or Rainbow. No email, no account, no password; the wallet is your identity.
- Use a regulated on-ramp to convert your local money into crypto, paying however you normally pay for things.
- End up with xDAI on Gnosis Chain, in your wallet. Then open walendria.org and use the site.
One identity check, once, on the provider — never on Walendria
Because a regulated on-ramp converts real money, it will normally ask you to verify your identity a single time. That is the provider's legal requirement, not Walendria's. The check lives entirely with the on-ramp; Walendria never sees it, never stores it, and never asks for it. Once crypto is in your wallet, Walendria itself asks you for nothing.
Three routes, ordered by how widely they work
| Route | Best when | Steps |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Buy xDAI directly | An on-ramp serves your country | Fewest — no bridge, no swap |
| 2 — Any exchange, then bridge | Almost anywhere | Buy, withdraw, bridge, swap |
| 3 — Your country's own rails | Local payment methods only | Varies by country |
Route 1 — buy xDAI directly onto Gnosis Chain
The fewest-steps option is an on-ramp that sells xDAI directly onto Gnosis Chain and delivers it straight to your wallet address — card-or-bank gateways such as Ramp Network or Mt Pelerin both do this. You set the network to Gnosis Chain and the token to xDAI, paste your wallet address, pay, and the xDAI arrives. No bridging, no swapping.
Mt Pelerin is worth knowing about specifically because of how low it sets the barrier to a first, small purchase. It is a Swiss-regulated financial intermediary, and the rules it operates under let it exchange up to a published threshold — CHF 999 across a rolling 30-day window as its documentation currently states — with nothing more than a phone number and an email address. Past that threshold, or at their own discretion, they verify identity like anybody else. That limit is theirs to set and it can change, so read their current published limits rather than treating this paragraph as the rule.
Honest caveat: which on-ramps operate, what they charge, and the limits they set all vary by country. Check what is actually available where you live before relying on any one of them — and if none of them serve you, Route 2 almost certainly will.
Route 2 — any exchange, then bridge (the one that works almost everywhere)
Most exchanges in the world cannot withdraw straight to Gnosis Chain. That is normal, and it costs you one extra step rather than blocking you. Buy a widely-supported stablecoin — USDC or USDT — on whatever exchange is properly licensed where you live, withdraw it on whichever network that exchange charges least for, and then bridge it across.
For bridging, the official Gnosis Bridge at bridge.gnosischain.com handles Ethereum, and a routing aggregator such as Jumper will find a path from most other networks. Once your funds are on Gnosis Chain, swap the amount you need into xDAI on any Gnosis Chain exchange, and keep a little xDAI aside for gas.
Route 3 — your country's own payment rails
Most countries now have an instant domestic payment system that everyone already uses — a QR standard, an instant bank transfer, or an e-wallet. You cannot pay Walendria with one, but you can very often pay an on-ramp or a licensed local exchange with one, and that is the cheapest way in if card payments are expensive or unavailable where you are. The pattern is the same everywhere:
- Find a provider licensed by your own country's financial regulator — only use ones that actually appear on that regulator's published list.
- Pay it with whatever rail is normal for you: an instant QR payment, an instant bank transfer, an e-wallet, or a card.
- Take delivery of something widely supported — a major stablecoin, or a local-currency stablecoin if your country has a regulated one.
- Get it onto Gnosis Chain and swap into xDAI, per Route 2 if a bridge is needed.
Below is one country worked through in full, so you can see the shape concretely. Map the same four steps onto your own country's regulator, rails, and exchanges.
Worked example: Indonesia
Via a licensed exchange. Buy crypto with QRIS, a bank transfer, or an e-wallet on an Indonesian exchange that appears on the financial regulator's licensed/registered whitelist. If it can withdraw straight to Gnosis Chain, do that; if it can't, follow Route 2 — withdraw USDC or USDT and bridge across.
Note that Walendria settles in xDAI, the native currency of Gnosis Chain. Whichever route you take, the last step is landing xDAI on Gnosis Chain, and a rupiah-backed stablecoin, if you use one, is only a path from your currency onto the chain, not the spending currency itself.
Always check the network — this is the one that bites beginners
Whichever route you take, the funds must end up on Gnosis Chain (chain id 100). Sending to the wrong network is the most common and most painful first-timer mistake. Verify the network on both sides before you send, and the very first time, send a small test amount and confirm it arrives before sending the rest.
A short safety checklist
- Self-custody. Your wallet, your keys. Neither Walendria nor this guide will ever ask for your seed phrase or private key — anyone who does is trying to rob you.
- Use only properly licensed providers where you live — check your own country's financial regulator's published list rather than an advertisement.
- Confirm the network is Gnosis Chain (100) on both the sending and receiving side.
- Keep a small xDAI buffer for gas so you're never stuck part-way through a transaction.
- Do a small test transfer first, and confirm it lands, before moving a larger amount.
- Double-check the destination address character by character before you send.
Once you're funded
That's the hard part done, and you only do it once. With xDAI in your wallet on Gnosis Chain, head to walendria.org, connect your wallet, and follow How to Use the Walendria Website to buy, sell, or handle a dispute. If you want the reasoning behind why Walendria is built this way, read What Is Walendria?
Common questions
Why doesn't Walendria have a deposit button?
Because Walendria is non-custodial: it never holds or moves your money, by design. A built-in fiat deposit would turn Walendria into a money-handling operator. Keeping it out means you stay fully in control of your own funds and Walendria stays a pure on-chain protocol. So you fund your own wallet, once, using any regulated provider you choose — then you use Walendria.
Do I have to do KYC to use Walendria?
Not with Walendria — it has no accounts and asks for no identity or documents at any point. But a regulated service that converts real money into crypto (an exchange or an on-ramp) will normally verify your identity once, because that is their legal obligation, not Walendria's. Some regulated providers are permitted to exchange small amounts below a published threshold with just a phone number and email, which can be enough for a first purchase. Either way that check lives entirely with the on-ramp. Once you hold crypto in your own wallet, using Walendria itself requires no verification whatsoever.
Which currency do I actually need, and on which network?
xDAI, on Gnosis Chain (chain id 100). xDAI is both what you spend on listings and what pays gas, so keep a little spare for transaction fees — gas on Gnosis Chain is a fraction of a cent. If your funds end up on any other network, Walendria cannot use them.
My country's exchanges can't withdraw to Gnosis Chain. What do I do?
That's normal and it isn't a problem. Withdraw a widely-supported stablecoin such as USDC or USDT on whichever network your exchange charges least for, then bridge it to Gnosis Chain — the official Gnosis Bridge covers Ethereum, and a routing aggregator such as Jumper will find a path from most other networks. Swap into xDAI once you're on Gnosis, and keep a little xDAI for gas.
Can I pay with an instant local payment system like QRIS, UPI, PIX, or an instant bank transfer?
Yes — but you pay a regulated on-ramp or a licensed exchange with it, never Walendria directly. Whatever instant payment rail is normal where you live, the pattern is the same: use it to buy crypto from a provider licensed in your country, get the funds onto Gnosis Chain as xDAI, then use Walendria. See Route 3 for the general pattern and a fully worked example.
I bought a local-currency stablecoin. Can I spend it on Walendria directly?
Not today. Walendria currently settles in xDAI, so swap the amount you need into xDAI. If your local stablecoin already exists on Gnosis Chain, that's a same-chain swap with no bridge needed; if it lives on another network, bridge first. Either way, keep a little xDAI afterwards for gas. A local stablecoin is useful as a cheap path from your currency onto the chain, not as the spending currency itself.
My funds didn't arrive, or went somewhere I didn't expect.
This is almost always a network mismatch: the funds must land on Gnosis Chain (chain id 100), not Ethereum or another network. Look up the transaction on a block explorer, confirm which network it actually landed on, and next time verify the network on both the sending and receiving side before you send — and send a small test amount first.
How much should I start with?
Enough to cover what you plan to buy, plus a small xDAI buffer for gas (again, a fraction of a cent per transaction on Gnosis Chain). The protocol also has an immutable 100 xDAI per-transaction hardcap, so no single transaction ever needs more than that.
Still stuck?
Read the Rules for the precise behaviour of every on-chain action, or How to Use the Walendria Website for the step-by-step once your wallet is funded.