Updated Articles

  1. Avoiding Crypto Drainers, Approval Phishing and Malicious Smart Contracts

    Learn how crypto wallet drainers, approval phishing, and malicious smart contracts work—and how to revoke approvals and protect your crypto assets.
  2. What's the difference between a hot and cold wallet?

    Learn the difference between hot wallets and cold wallets, how each protects your crypto, and which option may be better for security and storage.
  3. What's the most secure cryptocurrency wallet?

    Learn which cryptocurrency wallets are most secure, how hardware and cold wallets protect crypto, and why seed phrase security and safe wallet practices matter.
  4. Should You Use a Hardware Wallet? Security Benefits and Risks

    Should you use a hardware wallet for crypto? Learn the security benefits, potential risks, costs, and when a hardware wallet may be worth using.
  5. Is it safe to store crypto on an exchange?

    Compare the risks of keeping cryptocurrency on an exchange with the risks and responsibilities of using a self-custodial wallet.
  6. Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Recommendations and Advice

    Utilizing adequate Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), particularly for any accounts with any links to cryptocurrency accounts or financial accounts is critically important for users to implement in order to ensure accounts are relatively secure and much less prone to being hacked or compromised.
  7. How to Store a Crypto Seed Phrase Safely: Dos and Don’ts

    Learn how to store a cryptocurrency seed phrase safely, protect wallet backups from theft and damage, and avoid common recovery-phrase mistakes.
  8. Types of Cryptocurrency Frauds and Scams and How They Work

    A pig butchering scam or Sha Zhu Pan involves a scammer reaching out to a victim (using a fake name/profile), and working to slowly build up rapport with the victim over weeks or even months
  9. Is this crypto exchange platform legit?

    About 99% of the time when people ask us the question, the answer is no, the crypto exchange platform is not legit; on the contrary, it's fraudulent
  10. Am I Being Scammed?

    If you have been trying to withdraw your funds, and the platform has not allowed you to perform a withdrawal, and has instead come up with various excuses (e.g. you have to pay a 'tax' first, or some bogus fee), it is undoubtedly a scam.