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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8 articles tagged Wallet security
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.
Scam Prevention9 min read
Drainer kits: what the victim sees, and what is actually running
Wallet drainers are sold as a product, with dashboards, support and a revenue split. Understanding the business explains the design — and the design is what you can recognise.
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.
Risk Analysis11 min read
How to read a token approval before you sign it
An approval is not a payment. It is a standing permission for a contract to move your tokens, and most wallets show it as an unreadable hex blob. Here is what each field means.
Web3 Security8 min read
Signing without a transaction: the messages that empty wallets
A signature request that costs no gas and never appears in your history can still hand over every token you hold. Permit, Permit2 and eth_sign explained without the hex.
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.