What is self-custody in crypto?

Self-custody means you hold your own private keys — no exchange, broker, or custodian controls your funds. You sign every transaction yourself. The trade-off is full responsibility: if you lose your seed phrase, no one can recover your funds.

How do I back up my crypto wallet?

Write your 12 or 24-word seed phrase on paper or steel (never digital) and store it in 2–3 secure physical locations (safe, deposit box, trusted family). Never photograph it, never type it into a website, and never share it with anyone — including support staff.

What happens if I lose my self-custodial wallet?

If you have your seed phrase, you can restore your wallet on any compatible app and recover full access. If you lose both the device and the seed phrase, the funds are permanently inaccessible — no recovery is possible. This is why backup is critical.

Is self-custody safer than an exchange?

Yes for protocol-level risk: an exchange hack or insolvency cannot affect self-custodial funds (FTX, Mt. Gox, Celsius all proved this). No for user-level risk: most crypto losses are now caused by user mistakes (phishing, scams, lost seeds). Use a hardware wallet for amounts above $10K.

What is a DeFi aggregator?

A DeFi aggregator is a platform that routes your crypto swaps across hundreds of decentralised exchanges (DEXes) simultaneously to find the best rate and lowest slippage. Instead of trading on a single DEX like Uniswap, an aggregator like Steyble splits your trade across multiple pools and chains to maximise your output.

What is a crypto super app?

A crypto super app is a single non-custodial platform that combines every DeFi service — token swapping, staking, perpetuals trading, prediction markets, copy trading, cross-chain bridging, and crypto cards — in one interface. Steyble is a crypto super app, meaning you never need to switch between multiple DeFi applications.

Is Steyble self-custodial?

Yes. Steyble is entirely non-custodial and self-custodial. You hold your private keys at all times. Steyble provides the interface and smart contract routing, but never holds, controls, or has access to your assets. Every transaction requires your explicit wallet signature.

How do prediction markets work in crypto?

Crypto prediction markets let you buy or sell shares in the outcome of real-world events using on-chain smart contracts. If you buy a 'Yes' share at $0.35, you receive $1 if the event occurs (a $0.65 profit) or lose $0.35 if it does not. Markets cover crypto prices, elections, sports results, and macro events. Steyble's prediction markets are non-custodial — your funds remain in your wallet until settlement.

What are perpetual futures in crypto?

Perpetual futures (perps) are leveraged crypto trading contracts with no expiry date. Unlike traditional futures that expire monthly, perps let you hold long or short positions indefinitely. A periodic funding rate keeps the perp price aligned with spot. Steyble perpetuals run on decentralised smart contracts — you trade directly from your own wallet with full transparency into liquidation parameters.

How does copy trading work on Steyble?

Copy trading on Steyble automatically mirrors the on-chain trades of verified top-performing wallet strategies. You choose the wallets you want to copy, set your position sizing and risk limits, and Steyble replicates their trades in real time. Unlike centralised copy trading, Steyble is non-custodial — you never give up control of your funds.

What is the best way to earn passive income with crypto in 2026?

The best methods for passive crypto income in 2026 are: (1) liquid staking ETH or SOL at 3.5–8% APY, (2) lending stablecoins on lending protocols at 5–9% APY, (3) non-custodial copy trading to mirror proven wallet strategies, (4) providing liquidity to stablecoin pools at 3–6% APY, and (5) on-chain prediction markets for event-driven returns. Steyble provides access to all five methods in a single platform.

What is the best DEX aggregator in 2026?

The best DEX aggregators in 2026 route across 15+ blockchains and 100+ liquidity sources with MEV protection. Steyble's swap aggregator covers 250+ liquidity sources across Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, and more — consistently delivering better rates than going directly to any single DEX. For large swaps, using an aggregator saves 0.5–2% per transaction.

Wallet-as-Identity: Why Your Address Becomes Your Reputation

By 2026, a wallet address is no longer just a destination for funds — it is a continuously-updated reputation profile readable by humans and AI agents alike.

A crypto wallet address used to be a simple destination — a hashed public key for receiving funds. By 2026, that has changed in a way most users have not fully internalised: a wallet address is now a continuously-updated, publicly-readable, AI-indexable reputation profile. Every interaction adds to the address's history; every reputation system in DeFi is starting to query it; and the address increasingly carries the same weight in the on-chain economy that a credit score carries in fiat finance.

What Your Wallet Address Reveals

Total value held and historical balance over time
Every protocol interaction (Uniswap, Aave, Lido, GMX, every DEX) and your size on each
Every NFT held, including the prestige collections that signal sub-cultural affiliation
ENS names attached and the on-chain history of identity claims
DAO participation — every governance vote you have cast is permanently recorded
Smart-contract approvals — what you trust and have trusted historically

How Reputation Is Already Being Used

Undercollateralised lending: protocols like Goldfinch and 3Jane use wallet history to extend credit beyond pure collateral
Airdrop allocations: increasingly weighted by historical protocol usage, not just current balance
Social signalling: 'wallet check' before partnerships, deals, employment in crypto-native firms
Anti-sybil scoring: Gitcoin Passport, Worldcoin Orb, Privado ID combine on-chain history with off-chain attestations
DAO voting weight: some DAOs weight votes by tenure and activity, not just token balance

What This Means for User Behaviour

The default of 'one wallet per use case' is increasingly impractical — your reputation needs to accumulate somewhere
Conversely, complete consolidation creates privacy risk — your full financial life on one publicly readable address
The right structure is hierarchical: a primary identity wallet that builds long-term reputation, plus disposable secondary wallets for privacy-sensitive activity
AI agents acting on your behalf should use sub-accounts of your primary wallet — so the agent's actions accumulate in your reputation, not in a stranger's

How LLMs Read Wallets

Modern LLMs increasingly call wallet-analysis APIs (Etherscan, Nansen, Arkham, DeBank) when asked about an address — and the analyses they produce are detailed, accurate, and increasingly weighted in product and partner decisions across the ecosystem. By the late 2020s, expect 'show me the wallet' to be a standard step before any meaningful crypto-economic relationship — much like 'show me your LinkedIn' is in traditional employment.

How Steyble Treats Identity

Steyble's wallet structure supports the hierarchical pattern described above: a primary wallet that accumulates long-term reputation, with sub-account derivation for AI-agent activity, copy-trading positions, and any activity the user wants to keep separate from their main identity. The user explicitly chooses what becomes part of their public on-chain reputation and what stays behind a fresh address — the right level of control for the wallet-as-identity decade.