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Let’s say you bought some crypto, and now you’re faced with a choice to store your assets within the exchange account or move it to a crypto wallet. Technically, you can leave your funds on an exchange and not use a personal wallet at all. After all, you won’t need to create another account, store or remember another password, and learn how to use another service, right? Partially. OneArt weighs some pros and cons and gives top reasons why you do need your<a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/crypto-wallets-why-consider-looking-into-it-d6ef01df673" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> personal wallet</a>.<h3 id="strong-x1f5dd-not-your-keys-not-your-coins-strong">&#x1f5dd; Not your keys, not your coins</h3>Your crypto wallet grants you control over your assets via private keys. Not owning them means giving control to a third party, such as an exchange or a custodial wallet provider. Owning the key identifies you as the true owner of the assets. <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/f91b71991ae24956a8f895ef2733b790.png" />❗️You should keep in mind two crucial points:<ul><li>The fact you can access your crypto on your custodial wallet or exchange doesn’t mean it’s truly yours. Technically, it’s the service provider that owns your assets, so they can withhold them, set restrictions and limits, block your account, go bankrupt, and so on.</li></ul>It’s the same as with a bank account. You can’t be sure the bank won’t suspend it, or it won’t be robbed/fall under a sanction regime, etc.<ul><li>Since you own the key, you’re in charge of its safety. If you lose, forget, or reveal it to a 3rd party, no one will be able to <a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/how-to-retrieve-your-hacked-crypto-wallet-760ab060ce49" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">retrieve your crypto</a>.</li></ul><h3 id="strong-x1f6e1-secure-your-crypto-strong">&#x1f6e1; Secure your crypto</h3>This point follows directly from the previous one. If no one except you stores your private key, your assets are more secure. Keeping your assets on an exchange account may be too risky: as of 2019, they were losing<a href="https://books.google.nl/books/about/Blockchain_and_Trustworthy_Systems.html?id&#61;LtozzAEACAAJ&amp;hl&#61;en&amp;output&#61;html_text&amp;redir_esc&#61;y" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> $2.7 million</a> per day on average, and the number was predicted to soar.<a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/most-crypto-wallets-arent-secure-what-about-yours-2bfc3c39dba4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">According to CryptoHead</a>, breaches of exchanges are the most common. <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/743d9afc7f6d43a4be2f04420a019377.png" />❗️ The exchange may have sort of an insurance policy to reimburse stolen assets but<ul><li>There’s no guarantee you’ll be refunded (check out<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/07/cryptocurrency-theft-bitmart-still-owes-victims-of-200-million-hack.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> BitMart’s case</a>).</li><li>It may take too much time. For example, the Bitfinex exchange was hacked<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-08/cryptocurrency-of-hacked-exchange-surges-59-after-fund-recovery" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> in 2016</a>, and most funds were recovered only this year. Mt. Gox lost 850,000 bitcoin in 2014 and filed for bankruptcy. Its creditors were allowed to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-07/mt-gox-creditors-inch-closer-to-repayment-as-bitcoin-dump-looms" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">register for repayments</a> in July 2022.</li></ul><h3 id="strong-easier-and-quicker-access-to-your-funds-strong">⏰Easier and quicker access to your funds</h3>Have you ever been annoyed by too much info you don’t even need when trying to buy/sell/swap your tokens? <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/96f6d467ed094f9eb267261aaf1c99f4.png" />It really looks like it was made by crypto natives for crypto natives. An average user, especially a newbie, is usually overwhelmed by such an amount of extra information. It makes them think the crypto space is too hard to jump into, requires special knowledge and skills, is not for everyone, etc. Almost 15% of the<a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/oneart-community-stats-geos-pains-favorite-blockchains-46147f6ca3aa" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> OneArt survey respondents</a> say too much information hinders decision making.However, creating a user-friendly and still secure crypto space is challenging. Poor UI/UX is the most<a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/%D1%82op-7-problems-of-crypto-wallets-and-how-they-could-be-solved-e702524597fa" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> common problem</a> of crypto wallets: many of them are hard to navigate through. <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/03dcfac6fca54677b43567c073eee2ea.png" />At OneArt, we believe that chipping away all the unnecessary complexity and adding walkthroughs, hints, and prompts can help seamlessly onboard new users. <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/9e06f3ae9f754de3bbb778f5f7cd9fde.png" />For example, reminding them to secure their wallets <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/8e38ebec9fde444d9458cc43cd8e0ff4.png" />Or explaining what gas fee is <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/83476b41869042c287b114b35b5d6f2e.png" />And warning about priority fees. <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/2bae9be78d1b4c2096b8e2b2e310f5fc.png" /><h3 id="strong-x1f3a8-store-and-manage-your-a-href-https-art-wallet-medium-com-what-nft-is-really-about-6405e8995fb8-rel-noopener-noreferrer-nofollow-nfts-a-securely-strong">&#x1f3a8;Store and manage your <a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/what-nft-is-really-about-6405e8995fb8" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">NFTs</a> securely</h3>The ‘Not your keys, not your coins’ principle mentioned above applies to digital collectibles as well. You’d better not store them on exchanges or marketplaces that are often targeted by hackers. Remember the <a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/1-7-million-opensea-hack-explained-d42afa599740" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$1.7 million OpenSea hack</a>? It’s just one example. As of May 2022, NFT-related crimes have already caused financial losses that are <a href="https://www.top10vpn.com/research/cybercrime-statistics/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">667% higher</a> this year than over all of 2021. <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/70f74f2548f74d328c79c38a2bf9cf88.png" />So as not to be exposed to malicious activities, store your assets in a wallet that is truly yours. <img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/srd-optimized-uploads/f2b3ba6e62a149f4ac6e204916b1b22c.png" /><h3 id="strong-x1f3c6-how-to-choose-the-best-crypto-wallet-strong">&#x1f3c6; How to choose the best crypto wallet</h3>As per Cryptowisser, there are <a href="https://www.cryptowisser.com/wallets/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">over 140 wallets</a> to choose from. Check out our <a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/which-crypto-wallet-is-the-best-d3a16b5cd400" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">comparison article</a> and consider these criteria:<ul><li>What security features does the wallet have?</li><li>Does it support all needed blockchains?</li><li>Can you manage your NFTs?</li><li>Is it easy to use?</li><li>Finding the best wallet that meets all your needs might be a daunting task as there’s still no all-in-one solution on the market. That’s the issue <a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/here-comes-the-team-people-behind-crypto-projects-and-challenges-they-face-6bfeef019d28" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the OneArt team</a> is striving to solve. We’ve already launched secure and easy-to-use<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oneart-nft-wallet-browser/id1600729515" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> crypto and NFT wallet</a> on iOS, supporting multiple blockchains. And that’s just the beginning followed by the Android version, web extension,<a href="https://art-wallet.medium.com/what-if-you-had-all-in-one-crypto-profile-c63c904a8e6c" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> crypto profiles</a>, and more.</li></ul> Stay tuned! <a href="https://oneart.digital/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Website</a> |<a href="https://twitter.com/BNBCHAIN" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> </a><a href="https://twitter.com/art_wallet" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Twitter</a> |<a href="https://t.me/BNBchaincommunity" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> </a><a href="https://t.me/artwallet_official" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Telegram</a> |<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/bnbchainofficial/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> </a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/oneart/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">LinkedIn</a> |<a href="https://www.buildnbuild.dev/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> </a><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oneart-nft-wallet-browser/id1600729515" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">OneArt app (iOS)</a>

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