A Guide to Crypto Self-Custody

Cryptocurrencies are fundamentally built to give you complete sovereignty over your finances. For you to have unrestricted access and control over your assets, you need self-custody.

When you own crypto, the crypto in your address has a public key and private key pair. To receive crypto, you share your public key or address. To spend the crypto, you need to verify the transaction and prove ownership with the private key associated with the public key. Custody in crypto, therefore, boils …

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