Wallet
The software or device used to manage cryptographic keys, display balances and build transactions, or to access keys managed by a service provider. A wallet can manage multiple addresses. This glossary uses “wallet” in this technical sense; groups of addresses attributed through analysis to a common controller are called clusters.
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Essays
- The Strings Stay Public (Why Tracing Is Not Enough)
“The wallets are a marionette, and the strings run through other layers of the same data.”
- The Magic of Flash Loans (Part 2): The Next Octave
“Wallets and apps send them straight to a small number of specialised companies called builders, the ones who assemble the blocks that make up the ledger.”
- The Magic of Flash Loans (Part 1): Capital Was Never the Constraint
“Instead of monitoring every position across a lending protocol, I narrowed the search to wallets deployed through a specific contract that let users run recursive leverage loops, borrowing against their own collateral again and again to amplify their exposure to one product's incentives.”
- Two Sweeps Pointed at the Same Address
“His wallet had been emptied weeks earlier.”
- A Scam Made to Measure
“He was lured by a fake airdrop, a distribution of governance tokens to active users in an ecosystem, and signed a single drainer transaction: a malicious request that, once authorized, empties the wallet.”
- What a USDT Recovery Actually Looks Like
“A key cracked, the thief's wallet broken back into, the funds yanked out.”
- Welcome to Constraints
“The wallet has no owner.”
- Guess Who? (On-chain)
“I pulled a handful of wallets out of the noise, across multiple chains.”
- Wallet Balances
“So I built a single query that took every surviving combination of candidate tokens and searched, in one pass, for wallets that had held that exact set at the same time.”
- A Special Demixing Case
“The wallets went quiet for a long time.”
- Inside Inferno Drainer
“Fake airdrop, cloned site, one phishing link, one malicious signature, wallets drained.”