# BSC wallet MetaMask Plugin Installation Tutorial

**What is MetaMask?**

‌MetaMask is a plugin-type of wallet used on Google Chrome. The wallet is light weighted, robust, safe, and reliable. It’s one of the best wallet tools that blockchain users must have.

**Google Chrome browser installation**

‌Install Chrome browser to use MetaMask

‌Download address: <https://www.google.com/chrome/>

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**Install the MetaMask plugin**

‌Get the MetaMask plugin on the official website: <https://metamask.io/download.html>

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**Create or** **import a wallet**

‌After installing the MetaMask, users can choose to create or import a wallet.

Users who choose to create a new wallet must pay a lot of attention to the mnemonic phrase because whoever has the mnemonic phrase owns the wallet. If the mnemonic phrase is lost, it can’t be restored.

‌**Configuring the Binance Smart Chain**

‌After creating or importing a wallet, users need to configure the corresponding information before accessing the Binance Smart Chain.

Click the button above the wallet to switch/configure to the different chains.

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**The configuration information of Binance Smart Chain:**

‌Mainnet (Binance Smart Chain main chain)

‌Network Name: BSC Mainnet

‌RPC URLs: <https://bsc-dataseed.binance.org/>

‌ChainID: 0x38 or 0x56

‌Symbol: BNB

‌Block Explorer: <https://bscscan.com>

‌Fill the above configuration into the configuration table according to personal

needs, as shown in the figure below:

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