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Move to self-custody

Coins on an exchange are a claim on the exchange. Coins in a wallet whose keys you hold are yours, and no pause or insolvency can freeze them.

Step by step

  1. Pick a wallet: a hardware wallet for savings, a mobile wallet for small amounts.
  2. Write the recovery phrase on paper, never in a photo, a note app or an email. Anyone with it owns the coins.
  3. Copy the receiving address from the wallet, for the right network (for example USDT on Tron is not USDT on Ethereum).
  4. Send a small test amount from the exchange first, and check it arrives.
  5. Then send the rest. Keep only what you trade on the exchange.
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