# Access your account through a seed & a keyring

### Prerequisites

Before getting started, please ensure that you have the following prerequisites in place:

1. [Create a Ternoa account](/getting-started/wallets/ternoa-wallet.md) with [Alphanet CAPS](broken://pages/ej9gceaLIhCN2PgUBh42) from the [faucet.](https://faucet.ternoa.network/)
2. Install and configure your preferred code editor (for this tutorial, we will be using Visual Studio Code \[VSC]).
3. Install [NodeJS v.14+](https://nodejs.org/en/download/), along with NPM.

{% hint style="success" %}
If you are not familiar with the process of creating a transaction on the Ternoa chain, we highly suggest first reading the Getting Started section of the documentation with a focus on the [Ternoa-js workflow](/getting-started/javascript-sdk/ternoa-js-library/workflow.md) and the two transaction [approaches](/getting-started/javascript-sdk/ternoa-js-library/workflow.md#to-build-applications-within-the-ternoa-sdk-we-provide-two-approaches-for-each-primitive-extrinsic). 
{% endhint %}

Most of our examples in this documentation use the **automated approach** and involve creating the Keyring to sign and submit a transaction. 

{% hint style="info" %}
 Polkadot ***Keyring's*** definition: *The Keyring allows you to manage a set of keys in a consistent environment, allows you to perform operations on these keys (such as sign/verify), and never exposes the secretKey to the outside world.*\
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Learn more on keyring in the[ Polkadot's documentation.](https://polkadot.js.org/docs/keyring) 
{% endhint %}

### Generating a keyring

{% hint style="warning" %}
We assume you have already created a new wallet for development purposes with no CAPS on Ternoa Mainnet. You must use a development wallet with *NO REAL MONEY* in it when learning, practicing, and testing.\
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**The 12 worlds' seeds must be stored in a .env.variable file. Be sure to NEVER make your seed publicly accessible or visible in a browser.**
{% endhint %}

```typescript
import { initializeApi, getKeyringFromSeed } from "ternoa-js";

const main = async () => { 
	try { 
		await initializeApi();	
		const ACCOUNT_SEED = "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SEED"; // 12 worlds seed
		const keyring = await getKeyringFromSeed(ACCOUNT_SEED);
		console.log(`The keyring address is ${keyring.address}`);
		process.exit(0)
	} catch (e) {
		console.error(e);
		process.exit(1)
	} finally {
		process.exit(0)
	}
};
main();
```

You can now provide your keyring as function parameters to create some transactions like we do to [mint an NFT.](/build-1/javascript/nft-features-and-pallets/basics-nft-and-collections/nft/mint-a-basic-nft.md) \
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See more examples in the [NFT features & Pallets section. ](/build-1/javascript/nft-features-and-pallets.md)


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