70 stories mentioning it. Newest first.
The 604M-token stash in the named KOL's wallet is now worth more than the entire initial mints of several 2025 launches, with no mechanism in the token contract to dilute or unlock it.
A multisig wallet requires multiple signatures to send funds. Learn how M-of-N schemes work, when the extra complexity is worth it, and what can still go wrong.
A custodial wallet stores your crypto through a third party, meaning the exchange, not you, controls the private keys. Simpler to use, but FTX and Celsius show the hidden cost.
Self-custody smart wallets remove counterparty risk but add code bugs and key-management complexity. Qualified custodians add regulated oversight. Neither is universally safer.
Most crypto users treat their wallet like a black box. A few minutes of weekly labeling turns it into a personal ledger that pays off at tax time and during security reviews.
Smart wallets ditch seed phrases for features like social recovery and gas sponsorship, but they trade your dependency on a hardware device for a dependency on bundlers and paymasters. Here is what really shifts.
Multisig spreads signing power across devices and people so one compromised key can't drain the treasury. This walkthrough covers Safe setup, signer distribution, and recovery planning.
Social recovery wallets replace seed phrases with trusted guardians, trading self-custody purity for human-readable backup. Here's the trust you actually take on.
Most stolen crypto starts with a sloppy wallet setup. Here is the step-by-step method that closes the five holes phishers actually use.
BTC past $66K, ETH whales staking nine-figure hauls, ETFs pulling $227M a day, and a $2.3B stablecoin bleed nobody seems to want to reconcile.
A watch-only wallet lets you monitor a crypto address's balance and transactions without holding the private key. It is read-only by design, useful but not a vault.
Address poisoning sends a $0 dust transfer from a look-alike address, then waits for you to copy-paste it. Billions of transactions later, users keep losing millions.
A 2023 Ledger library breach drained wallets via a single malicious update. Here is how supply chain attacks actually compromise crypto wallets, and why they are so hard to defend against.
A smart-account transaction is not one transaction. It is a UserOperation that a shared EntryPoint routes, a bundler submits, and a paymaster may sponsor. Learn how to read each field before approving.
Phantom is the most widely used Solana wallet — and now multi-chain. Here is how to install it, back up the seed phrase and avoid the common first-day mistakes.
Passkey and social recovery wallets can replace seed phrases, but they trade one set of risks for another. Here is how to set them up without losing your crypto.
Most holders keep all their crypto in one place, creating a single point of failure. A tiered wallet setup with spending, savings, and inheritance layers reduces risk without becoming unmanageable.
A clipboard hijacker silently rewrites a copied wallet address in milliseconds. Copying BTC or ETH to a scammer has cost users millions. Here is how it works and the one defense that actually holds.
A watch-only wallet lets you monitor any address without holding the private key. Here is how to set one up on phone, browser, or a spare laptop in under ten minutes.
Wallet drainers are the dominant on-chain theft tool of 2024-2026 — malicious smart contracts that drain a wallet the moment you sign a single innocuous-looking approval. Here is how they work, the multi-million-dollar incidents, and how to stop one before you sign.
Lookonchain
Marco De Santis