# Begin with your own source

Open your identity, preserve your originals, and complete a first operation whose result you can inspect.

Canonical: https://docs.bankeiz.com/getting-started/
Reviewed: 2026-10-25; coordinated packages 129.0.0; ruleset 127.0.0.

## One identity, a connected history

The proof-native economy is the economic system. Reality-grade banking is the standard for interacting with it. Receiz supplies the reality-grade infrastructure through SDK, MCP and AI Skills. Bankeiz is an open implementation of that standard. Your identity, owned originals, value sources and recorded operations have distinct proofs; the interface brings them into one usable account.

**Your first complete operation**

1. Open: Continue the established identity.
2. Choose: Select a supported source and recipient.
3. Review: Approve the exact operation.
4. Retain: Keep its confirmed result and original.

## Open the established account

1. **Enter the bank** — Use the existing account entry. On a new supported device the current flow can establish local identity.
2. **Continue existing identity** — Open a supported Identity Record, Identity Seal or Receiz Key, or use the supported PBI recovery path.
3. **Inspect the account** — Check that the identity and available account state are yours before starting a financial operation.

> **An unreadable original is a recovery problem**
>
> Do not replace it with a new identity to make the screen continue. Preserve the file and use the matching recovery path.

## Save what you need to carry

Save the private identity original with the existing backup control. Keep any required phrase separately and privately. Identity backup and proof backup are different: the first carries supported identity continuity; the latter carries the exact supported originals and recovery evidence held on the device. Neither automatically restores hardware-bound Note custody.

- [Prepare a backup](https://docs.bankeiz.com/backup/)
- [Understand protected custody](https://docs.bankeiz.com/offline/)

## Choose a first useful task

**Start from the outcome you need**

| Outcome | Where to begin | What to keep |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Receive payment | Open Receive and share the supported link, button or QR. | The actual receiving result and payment reference. |
| Pay someone | Resolve the recipient, review amount and funding, then approve. | The original payment attempt and confirmed receipt. |
| Inspect proof | Open the supported original in the appropriate reader. | The complete original and its verification scope. |
| Publish an original | Use Public original or the separate backed-creation option. | The authored source and publication result. |

## Confirm, then continue

An approved request and a completed financial result are separate states. If a response is lost, retain the saved attempt and use its status/recovery action. A timeout does not establish that nothing happened. A receipt or original should bind the intended participants, amounts, asset and operation. Continue from that result instead of creating a replacement operation.

- [Payment recovery](https://docs.bankeiz.com/recovery/)
- [Read the basic terms](https://docs.bankeiz.com/glossary/)

## Implementation sources

- [Current implementation and operating boundaries](https://github.com/kojibai/reality-grade-banking/blob/6c5d582/docs/current-function-boundaries.md)
- [Exact backup and import behavior](https://github.com/kojibai/reality-grade-banking/blob/6c5d582/docs/proof-backup-and-recovery.md)

## Related documentation

- [Read the account without losing the source](https://docs.bankeiz.com/concepts/)
- [Identity and account access](https://docs.bankeiz.com/identity/)
- [Fund the next operation](https://docs.bankeiz.com/funding/)
- [Approve a payment and retain its receipt](https://docs.bankeiz.com/payments/)