Degen wallet hygiene: how not to lose everything to a single approval

Degen trading means dozens of signatures a day at FOMO speed. It's an ideal environment for drainers: one careless signature and the wallet is empty. Protection isn't paranoia - it's architecture.

Three-wallet architecture

• Vault: a cold wallet that NEVER connects to sites. This is where locked-in profit goes.
• Working wallet: the main trading wallet - connects only to verified platforms from bookmarks.
• Burner: for mints, new sites and anything questionable - the loss limit equals its balance.

Approvals: the silent hole

An approval grants a contract permission to manage a token, and "unlimited" approvals pile up over years: any of these contracts (or a future exploit of it) can drain tokens without new signatures. Hygiene: audit and revoke old approvals once a month (revoke services), use limited approvals instead of unlimited ones, and revoke immediately after one-off operations.

Drainers: an industry of signatures

A modern drainer doesn't ask for a seed - it asks for a signature that looks like a mint/claim but is actually a Permit2/setApprovalForAll covering everything. Rules: read the transaction simulation (wallets show what will be sent out); a "free mint" requesting token approval is theft; urgency ("claim closes in an hour") is drainer marketing. And under no circumstances, in any scenario, is a seed phrase ever entered on a website.