About Vaultwise and Our Editorial Policy

Vaultwise publishes independent guides and reviews about hardware wallets and self-custody, with a heavy focus on Ledger devices because they are what most people end up buying.

What this site is not#

We are not Ledger. Vaultwise is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ledger SAS, SatoshiLabs, or any wallet manufacturer. Product names and trademarks belong to their owners. If you are looking for official support, go to the manufacturer's own site - and type the URL yourself rather than searching for it.

We will never ask for your recovery phrase. No article, form, email or comment on this site will ever ask you for your 24 words, your PIN, or your private keys. If anything claiming to be Vaultwise does, it is not us.

We do not give financial advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any asset. We write about how to secure what you already own.

How we write#

Security first, product second. The advice that saves people money is almost never "buy the expensive one." It is: back up your recovery phrase properly, verify addresses on the device screen, and do not blind-sign. We say that even when it costs us affiliate revenue - which it does, constantly, because we recommend the cheapest model to most readers.

We describe limitations. Every review has a "who should buy something else" section. A review with no downsides is an advertisement.

We date and update. Every article shows a publication date and a last-updated date. Prices, firmware behaviour and coin support change; a guide written two years ago and never revisited is a liability, so we revise rather than let pages rot.

We flag uncertainty. Where a figure moves - prices, supported-asset counts, staking yields - we say so and point you to the primary source rather than pretending a number is fixed.

Corrections#

If something here is wrong, we want to fix it, and we would rather be corrected than be confidently mistaken in public. Email the address on this page with the URL and what is wrong. Material corrections are made in the article itself and the updated date changes.

How we make money#

Some outbound links to hardware wallets are affiliate links. If you buy through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

The rules we hold ourselves to:

1. Affiliate status never changes a verdict. Our most-recommended device is one of the cheapest, which is the opposite of what commission-maximising would suggest.
2. We tell you when not to buy. Several articles here recommend spending less, or nothing.
3. No paid reviews, no sponsored posts, no "featured placement." If that ever changes, it will be labelled clearly on the page and not in a footer.
4. We recommend buying direct from the manufacturer rather than from marketplaces, because supply chain matters - even though marketplace affiliate programmes tend to pay better.

Full affiliate disclosure.

Who writes this#

Vaultwise is written and maintained by a small team with backgrounds in software and security who have been self-custodying since long before it was easy. We publish under a team byline rather than personal names, for the same reason we advise you not to advertise your holdings.

Contact#

Corrections, questions and tip-offs about new scam patterns are all welcome. We are particularly interested in phishing samples - if you receive something new, we would like to see it so we can describe it accurately for other readers.

Our one non-negotiable#

If you take a single thing from this entire site, take this: your recovery phrase never goes into anything with a network connection. Not a website, not an app, not a support chat, not a photo, not a password manager. Everything else here is optimisation. That one rule is the difference between owning your crypto and having owned it.