Guides, tutorials, and deep dives to help you master crypto self-custody.
Foundational concepts every crypto user should know — wallets, keys, transactions, and blockchains explained.
16 articles
Protect your crypto: seed phrases, phishing, scam patterns, and hardware wallet best practices.
17 articles
Decentralized finance explained — staking, lending, swaps, yield, and how to use DeFi safely.
38 articles
NFTs, digital collectibles, and on-chain ownership: how they work and how to manage them.
13 articles
Step-by-step walkthroughs for common crypto tasks — sending, receiving, swapping, and recovering.
21 articles
Deep dives into individual coins and chains — what they do, how they work, and how to hold them.
51 articles
The GENIUS Act creates a federal framework for payment stablecoins, while new Federal Reserve rulemaking would help determine how safeguards work in practice. Here is what reserve quality, capital requirements, redemption rights, and issuer controls mean for people holding dollar tokens in self-custody wallets.
Nearly $20 million in XRP was reportedly drained from 6,678 DCENT wallets across six attack waves. The incident highlights why users must treat a compromised wallet app or key-management system as a reason to stop using old addresses and migrate funds.
On Ergo, a box unmoved for four years can be claimed by anyone. How storage rent works, what happened to Flux's reserve, and how to protect your tokens.
Binance is reported to have purchased a $100 million stake in Circle and agreed to a five-year USDC promotion partnership. The arrangement could improve USDC liquidity and access, but self-custody users should still evaluate networks, redemption assumptions, and exchange concentration.
Bitcoin reached roughly $85,000 this week as bearish leveraged positions were forced to close, contributing to a reported $648 million in liquidations. Here is what the move reveals about leverage, market volatility, and why self-custody wallets remain separate from exchange risk.
The reported Haruko cyberattack shows why exchange API credentials deserve the same care as passwords and wallet keys. Learn how broad permissions can expose trading accounts and connected funds without compromising a user’s main self-custody wallet.
The Blink Wallet breach reportedly drained a few dozen custodial accounts and highlights a central Lightning trade-off: convenience can require trusting a service with control over funds. Here is what custodial users should understand about keys, losses, pauses, and safer next steps.
Circle has launched Arc, a new Layer 1 where USDC is the native gas asset rather than a token used only for applications. That could simplify stablecoin payments, but self-custody users must still evaluate chain support, bridges, contracts, and recovery carefully.
Chainflip plans to reset affected TRON USDT liquidity-provider balances to zero after an exploit reported at about $736,442. The incident highlights how cross-chain messaging and transaction metadata can create losses even when the underlying USDT token contract is not the target.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points on September 16, 2026, its first increase since 2023. Here is how the decision can affect Bitcoin, altcoins, stablecoin yields, borrowing costs, and self-custody users.
A reported $7.8 million wallet drain shows that self-custody security does not end with protecting a seed phrase. Authorized smart contracts can spend tokens through existing approvals, making approval reviews and revocations an essential wallet habit.
The Symbiosis Bitcoin bridge exploit reportedly allowed an attacker to mint billions of syBTC without equivalent Bitcoin reserves, then exchange the synthetic tokens for real assets. Here is what bridge accounting means for anyone holding crypto in self-custody.
