After a Drain: Recovery, Reporting, and Damage Control
Your NFT wallet was drained. Here is what to do in the next hour, how to build a paper trail, what recovery actually looks like, and the scam wave targeting victims days later.
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Digital collectibles, royalties, and what "owning" an NFT really means.
An NFT is a record on a blockchain that says a specific token belongs to a specific address. That's it. The art, the music, the membership pass — those are things pointed to by the token. The ownership itself is a line in a public ledger that only the holder of the matching private key can move.
Which is exactly why custody matters for collectors. If your NFTs sit on an exchange or inside a custodial app, you don't actually own them — the platform does, and you have a claim. Lose access to the platform and you lose the collection. Zelcore's non-custodial approach means the keys are yours, the tokens live at addresses you control, and no middleman can freeze, delist, or rehypothecate what's yours.
This section is still being built out. Expect guides on connecting Zelcore to major marketplaces, storing NFTs safely across chains, understanding royalties and metadata, and managing collections without exposing your keys to every site that asks to sign.
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