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Board Beginners & Help
Re: A question I should have asked on my first day here
by
Z390
on 19/09/2022, 07:27:30 UTC
-snip- I want to know what happens if your wallet is connected to a swap website like Voyager, Pancake swap and others, once you connect your wallet what access do you give the website for that period of time? Private key access? Recovery seed access? Or just control of your wallet for that limited time.
Mostly just to view your address, not your private key or seed phrase.
It's as simple as giving the site permission to view your address for them to be able to see your balance, txn history and use that as your receiving address.

But it may have different permissions per site, for example Pancake Swap has this permission when connected to Metamask:
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Permissions
You have authorized the following permissions:
See address, account balance, activity and suggest transactions to approve
(the most common permission)
Sigh, it looks like I don't really understand how transactions work still, thanks for putting a light on this darkness, I thought the safest way is moving out your assets from a wallet you've connected to swap platforms many times is the way, this is what I do from time to time.