🔐 Security

Understanding offline key storage

Cold-storage practices aim to keep signing credentials away from connected devices. They do not remove the need for trusted hardware, secure backups and careful transaction verification.

A clear sequence of checks

Cold-storage practices aim to keep signing credentials away from connected devices. They do not remove the need for trusted hardware, secure backups and careful transaction verification.

Understand what you are changing

Make sure the operation fits your purpose and risk tolerance.

Check the trusted source and environment

Independently confirm that the app or instruction is genuine.

Proceed carefully and verify each detail

Compare each field rather than accepting defaults without review.

Record the outcome and store backups securely

Keep any recovery material in a protected offline location.

IMPORTANT BOUNDARIES

Know what the interface cannot guarantee

Illustrations help explain decisions. They do not guarantee product functionality, transaction outcome or the safety of a third-party network.

✓ Secret phrases should never be entered in a website verification form.

✓ Product behavior and actual availability must be verified within the official application.

✓ Network and signing checks are still required even when a screen looks familiar.