Risk Analysis7 min read
Riskira: what a 0–100 wallet score is actually reading
A score is a compression of public data into one number. Knowing what went into it is the difference between a tool and a talisman.
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6 articles tagged Self-custody
Wallet Security9 min read
The wallet you installed from a search ad
Drainers increasingly arrive as software you install rather than a site you visit — a browser extension, a store listing, an update prompt. What to check before a wallet touches your keys.
Transaction Safety10 min read
Cross-chain bridges: where the risk actually sits
Bridges have lost more value than almost any other category in this space, and rarely through the cryptography. The failures cluster in three places you can check before using one.
Wallet Security9 min read
Smart accounts: what account abstraction changes about wallet risk
A wallet that is a contract rather than a key pair can do things a seed phrase cannot — social recovery, spending limits, session keys. It also introduces failure modes that did not exist before.
Security Research9 min read
Address poisoning: the address in your history is not the one you paid
Attackers send you worthless transactions from addresses that look like the ones you use, so that the next time you copy from your history you copy theirs. The defence is not vigilance.
Blockchain Security10 min read
What a hardware wallet does not protect you from
A hardware wallet keeps your private key off an internet-connected machine. That solves one class of loss completely and several others not at all — and the gap is where most people are still exposed.