Guides

Custody, payments and what actually goes wrong

Short, specific explanations of the decisions people get wrong with crypto wallets. No hype, no affiliate rankings, and we say where our own model is weaker.

What is an MPC wallet?

Key sharding without the jargon, and what it does and does not protect you from.

How to recover a wallet without a seed phrase

Guardians, WebAuthn, email OTP and TOTP, and how a recovery doubles as a revocation.

Self-custody vs custodial wallet

The trade between counterparty risk and personal responsibility, stated plainly.

MPC wallet vs hardware wallet

Both stop a single stolen secret. They fail in opposite ways, and both still blind-sign.

Paying gas fees in USDT

Why a stablecoin balance normally cannot pay for anything, and how to fix it.

Cashing out crypto to a bank account

Closing the gap self-custody wallets usually leave at the fiat edge.