diff --git a/examples/react/w3console/src/components/Authenticator.tsx b/examples/react/w3console/src/components/Authenticator.tsx
index a5499fb6..35773ff6 100644
--- a/examples/react/w3console/src/components/Authenticator.tsx
+++ b/examples/react/w3console/src/components/Authenticator.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import React from 'react'
 import {
   Authenticator as AuthCore,
+  SpaceRegistrationPhrase,
   useAuthenticator
 } from '@w3ui/react-keyring'
 
@@ -33,8 +34,15 @@ export function AuthenticationSubmitted (): JSX.Element {
     <div className='authenticator'>
       <div className='bg-gray-400 px-24 py-16 rounded-md'>
         <h1 className='text-xl'>Verify your email address!</h1>
-        <p className='pt-2 pb-4'>
-          Click the link in the email we sent to {email} to sign in.
+        <p className='py-2'>
+          We've just sent an email to {email}.
+        </p>
+        <p className='py-2'>
+          Please verify that the phrase in the email matches the following words:
+        </p>
+        <SpaceRegistrationPhrase className='block font-mono font-lg bg-white/75 my-4 p-2'/>
+        <p className='pb-4'>
+          If it does, please click "Verify email address" to sign in.
         </p>
         <AuthCore.CancelButton className='w3ui-button w-full'>
           Cancel
diff --git a/packages/keyring-core/src/index.ts b/packages/keyring-core/src/index.ts
index ba33db3e..9ee176af 100644
--- a/packages/keyring-core/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/keyring-core/src/index.ts
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ export interface KeyringContextState {
   agent?: Signer
 }
 
+export interface RegisterSpaceOptions {
+  onPhrase: (phrase: string) => void
+}
+
 export interface KeyringContextActions {
   /**
    * Load the user agent and all stored data from secure storage.
@@ -117,7 +121,7 @@ export interface KeyringContextActions {
    * storage. Use cancelRegisterSpace to abort. Automatically sets the
    * newly registered space as the current space.
    */
-  registerSpace: (email: string) => Promise<void>
+  registerSpace: (email: string, options?: RegisterSpaceOptions) => Promise<void>
   /**
    * Abort an ongoing account registration.
    */
diff --git a/packages/react-keyring/src/Authenticator.tsx b/packages/react-keyring/src/Authenticator.tsx
index fcad710e..2520cb29 100644
--- a/packages/react-keyring/src/Authenticator.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-keyring/src/Authenticator.tsx
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ export type AuthenticatorContextState = KeyringContextState & {
    * A callback that can be passed to an `onSubmit` handler to
    * register a new space or log in using `email`
    */
-  handleRegisterSubmit?: (e: React.FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) => Promise<void>
+  handleRegisterSubmit?: (e: React.FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) => Promise<void>,
+  /**
+   * A short phrase generated by the access API that should be presented to 
+   * the user on the email verification wait screen. Users should be instructed
+   * to verify that the phrase in their email matches this phrase.
+   */
+  spaceRegistrationPhrase?: string
 }
 
 export type AuthenticatorContextActions = KeyringContextActions & {
@@ -103,6 +109,7 @@ export const AuthenticatorRoot: Component<AuthenticatorRootProps> =
     const { createSpace, registerSpace } = actions
     const [email, setEmail] = useState('')
     const [submitted, setSubmitted] = useState(false)
+    const [spaceRegistrationPhrase, setSpaceRegistrationPhrase] = useState('')
 
     const handleRegisterSubmit = useCallback(
       async (e: React.FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) => {
@@ -110,7 +117,7 @@ export const AuthenticatorRoot: Component<AuthenticatorRootProps> =
         setSubmitted(true)
         try {
           await createSpace()
-          await registerSpace(email)
+          await registerSpace(email, { onPhrase: (phrase) => { setSpaceRegistrationPhrase(phrase) } })
         } catch (error: any) {
           throw new Error('failed to register', { cause: error })
         } finally {
@@ -122,10 +129,10 @@ export const AuthenticatorRoot: Component<AuthenticatorRootProps> =
 
     const value = useMemo<AuthenticatorContextValue>(
       () => [
-        { ...state, email, submitted, handleRegisterSubmit },
+        { ...state, email, submitted, handleRegisterSubmit, spaceRegistrationPhrase },
         { ...actions, setEmail }
       ],
-      [state, actions, email, submitted, handleRegisterSubmit]
+      [state, actions, email, submitted, handleRegisterSubmit, spaceRegistrationPhrase]
     )
     return (
       <AgentLoader>
@@ -194,6 +201,16 @@ export const CancelButton: Component<CancelButtonProps> = createComponent(
   }
 )
 
+export type SpaceRegistrationPhraseOptions<T extends As = 'button'> = Options<T>
+export type SpaceRegistrationPhraseProps<T extends As = 'button'> = Props<CancelButtonOptions<T>>
+
+export const SpaceRegistrationPhrase: Component<SpaceRegistrationPhraseProps> = createComponent(
+  (props) => {
+    const [{spaceRegistrationPhrase}] = useAuthenticator()
+    return createElement('span', {...props, children: <>{spaceRegistrationPhrase}</>})
+  }
+)
+
 /**
  * Use the scoped authenticator context state from a parent `Authenticator`.
  */
diff --git a/packages/react-keyring/src/providers/Keyring.tsx b/packages/react-keyring/src/providers/Keyring.tsx
index 80e8bfd4..76f13ad3 100644
--- a/packages/react-keyring/src/providers/Keyring.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-keyring/src/providers/Keyring.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ import {
 import type {
   KeyringContextState,
   KeyringContextActions,
-  ServiceConfig
+  ServiceConfig,
+  RegisterSpaceOptions
 } from '@w3ui/keyring-core'
 import type { Agent } from '@web3-storage/access'
 import type { Abilities } from '@web3-storage/access/types'
@@ -102,13 +103,13 @@ export function KeyringProvider ({
     return did
   }
 
-  const registerSpace = async (email: string): Promise<void> => {
+  const registerSpace = async (email: string, opts?: RegisterSpaceOptions): Promise<void> => {
     const agent = await getAgent()
     const controller = new AbortController()
     setRegisterAbortController(controller)
 
     try {
-      await agent.registerSpace(email, { signal: controller.signal })
+      await agent.registerSpace(email, {...opts, signal: controller.signal })
       setSpace(getCurrentSpace(agent))
       setSpaces(getSpaces(agent))
     } catch (error) {