Is revoke.cash safe?

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I need more information on revoke.cash https://revoke.cash/ ​ How safe is it? How does it work? How does it help in saving against wallet compromise? How to be more careful about compromised smart contracts? ​


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This is an amazing tool that will stop the bleeding if you connect to a malicious site. Normally when you connect to a bad site you unknowingly approve access for a bad actor to have unlimited access to your connected wallet. An "approve all" is issued that will allow this bad actor to move assets from your wallet to theirs. ​ Revoke.cash removes this access :) ​ NOTE: if your seed phrase is compromised then revoke.cash won't work. You will have to move assets manually to a new wallet with a different seed phrase. ​ How to be more careful? ​ Don't rush and take your time. If it's for an nft launch make sure you use official links only. Also cross reference official channels like discord and twitter account.

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Thanks for the great question Mohib! Just like Chesco said, Revoke.cash (and https://etherscan.io/tokenapprovalchecker, which does the same thing and is also super safe to use from a very trusted company, Etherscan), both work by allowing you to revoke approvals you gave to various smart contracts to spend your ERC-20 and ERC-721/ERC-1155 tokens on your behalf. ​ When you use a platform like OpenSea to sell NFTs or Uniswap/Sushiswap to sell your ERC-20 tokens, you have to give OpenSea/Uniswap/Sushiswap's smart contracts approval to spend/transfer all your NFTs/ERC-20 tokens on your behalf. ​ If you accidentally give this approval to a malicious contract on a phishing website, you can revoke their access so that they won't forever have access to transfer your tokens from your account. ​ Revoke.cash is fully open source and is a trusted platform, but if you want an even more trusted platform to do the same thing that's been around even longer, https://etherscan.io/tokenapprovalchecker does exactly the same thing. ​ Either platform will work fine for this purpose - hope that helps! Thanks for the great question!

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