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2FA App Preferable
2FA App Preferable is preferring app-based or hardware 2FA over SMS for exchange accounts.
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Approvals, phishing, malware, exploits, and wallet safety concepts for consumers.
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Allowlist Spend Policy
Allowlist Spend Policy is wallet rules permitting sends only to known addresses.
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Compromised Deployer Key
Compromised Deployer Key is leak of a project deployer key enabling malicious upgrades or mints.
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Compromised Hot Wallet
Compromised Hot Wallet is a hot wallet whose keys were stolen by malware or phishing.
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Counterparty Risk Crypto
Counterparty Risk Crypto is risk that the other party or platform fails to meet obligations.
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Cross-Chain Approval Confusion
Cross-Chain Approval Confusion is approvals on one chain do not revoke the same spender on another chain.
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Crypto Scam Report Evidence
Crypto Scam Report Evidence is preserving TX hashes, addresses, chat logs, and domains before reporting — not a recovery promise.
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Custodial Insolvency Risk
Custodial Insolvency Risk is risk that a custodian cannot honor withdrawals due to insolvency.
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Duress Wallet Concept
Duress Wallet Concept is optional secondary wallets some users prepare for coercion scenarios — advanced and easy to misuse.
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Hardware Confirm Every Detail
Hardware Confirm Every Detail is verifying full addresses and amounts on a hardware display before approving.
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Memo Tag Omission Loss
Memo Tag Omission Loss is losing exchange credits by omitting required destination tags — not always recoverable.
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No Recovery Guarantee Principle
No Recovery Guarantee Principle is the principle that no honest party can guarantee crypto recovery after irreversible sends.
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Official Domain Verification
Official Domain Verification is checking domains via official documentation rather than DMs or ads.
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Password Manager Seed Storage Risk
Password Manager Seed Storage Risk is storing seeds in password managers that sync online can create cloud exposure.
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Printed Seed In Wallet
Printed Seed In Wallet is carrying paper seeds in a physical wallet that can be lost or photographed.
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Proof of Reserves Misread
Proof of Reserves Misread is misinterpreting reserve snapshots as full liability coverage or insurance.
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Public Photo Seed Leak
Public Photo Seed Leak is accidentally posting a photo that includes a seed backup sheet.
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Replay Attack Confusion
Replay Attack Confusion is user confusion after forks when transactions could be replayed without protection.
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Revocation Hygiene
Revocation Hygiene is periodically reviewing and revoking unused token and NFT approvals.
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Royalty Bypass Confusion
Royalty Bypass Confusion is marketplace disputes around royalties — not itself a scam, but used in social engineering stories.
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Seed On Camera Risk
Seed On Camera Risk is displaying seed words on camera during streams or support calls.
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Seed Phrase Cloud Leak
Seed Phrase Cloud Leak is exposure of recovery words via photos, notes apps, or email drafts.
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Seed Phrase Email Attachment
Seed Phrase Email Attachment is sending yourself seeds by email — a high-risk exposure pattern.
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Seed Reuse Across Wallets
Seed Reuse Across Wallets is importing the same seed into many apps expands the malware attack surface.
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Shared Seed Household Risk
Shared Seed Household Risk is multiple people knowing a seed increases theft and coercion risk.
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ShouldEye Never Asks Seeds
ShouldEye Never Asks Seeds is a safety principle: ShouldEye never asks for seed phrases, private keys, keystores, or wallet passwords.
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Slippage Settings Confusion
Slippage Settings Confusion is very high slippage tolerances that allow unfavorable or malicious fills.
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Spending Limit Wallet
Spending Limit Wallet is policies capping daily transfers to limit blast radius of compromise.
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Stale Approval Risk
Stale Approval Risk is old unlimited approvals remaining dangerous years later.
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Time-Locked Vault
Time-Locked Vault is contracts delaying spends to reduce theft speed after key compromise.
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Unlimited Token Approval
An unlimited token approval lets a smart contract spend an unbounded amount of a specific token from your wallet until revoked.
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Valid Wallet Address
A valid wallet address is a string that passes format and checksum rules for a network — not proof the recipient is the intended or honest party.
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Validator Compromise
Validator Compromise is compromise of validator keys leading to slashing or network risk.
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Withdrawal Address Allowlisting
Withdrawal Address Allowlisting is restricting custodial withdrawals to pre-approved addresses.
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Wrong Asset Deposit
Wrong Asset Deposit is sending a token standard a platform does not support for that address.
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Wrong Network Deposit
Wrong Network Deposit is depositing on an unsupported chain/network for a custodial address.
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