How to create and verify your Usko account

Beginners3 min readUpdated

A step-by-step guide to opening a Usko account, confirming your email address and logging in for the first time.

What you need first

  • An email address you can open right now.
  • A phone, tablet or computer with a browser.
  • About five minutes. Creating an account is free.

This guide covers the very first step on Usko: making an account and proving that the email address belongs to you. It does not cover identity verification (KYC) — that is a separate guide, linked at the end.

Step 1 — Open the sign-up page

Go to usko.in and select Sign Up in the top right corner of the page. If you are on a phone, tap the menu icon first and the sign-up button appears in the menu.

You will see a short form asking for your name, your email address and a password.

Step 2 — Choose a strong password

Your password is the first lock on your money, so make it a good one:

  1. Use a long password — a phrase of several unrelated words is both stronger and easier to remember than a short jumble of symbols.
  2. Never reuse a password you already use somewhere else. If that other website is ever breached, attackers will try the same password here.
  3. Store it in a password manager, or write it down and keep the paper somewhere only you can reach.

The form tells you as you type whether the password meets the minimum requirements.

Step 3 — Submit the form

Check that your email address is spelled correctly — everything from here on is sent there — then select Register. Usko creates the account immediately and sends a verification email to the address you entered.

Step 4 — Confirm your email address

Open your inbox and look for the message from Usko. Select the confirmation link inside it. Your browser opens Usko again and shows that the address is confirmed.

If the email is not there after a few minutes:

  1. Check your spam or junk folder, and any “Promotions” tab.
  2. Search your mailbox for Usko rather than scrolling.
  3. Use the resend option on the site.
  4. Mark the message as “not spam” and add the sender to your contacts so future codes arrive properly.

Step 5 — Log in for the first time

Select Log In, enter your email address and password, and you land on your dashboard. The dashboard is the home of your account: your wallets, your recent activity and the links to every other part of Usko.

Step 6 — Look around before you fund anything

Spend a few minutes clicking through the sections so nothing is a surprise later. In particular find:

  • Wallet — your balances.
  • Trade — the market screen where buying and selling happens.
  • Profile → Security — where two-factor authentication lives.
  • Support — how to reach a human if something goes wrong.

Do not put money into any account — on Usko or anywhere else — before you have switched on two-factor authentication. That is the very next guide.

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