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Re: What is Trust wallet and is it safe?
by
Kavelj22
on 02/10/2022, 19:01:19 UTC
Trust wallet is not open source.

Here is their blog post announcing they are becoming closed source about 4.5 years ago: https://trustwallet.medium.com/why-open-sourcing-android-app-could-be-a-harm-to-the-crypto-community-fb3ae1707dc6

Here are the links to their Github repositories which show they are both archived and have had no updates in 4 years:
https://github.com/trustwallet/trust-wallet-android-source
https://github.com/trustwallet/trust-wallet-ios

They outright lie on their website when they claim to be open source. If being closed source isn't enough to convince you to stay away, then them outright lying to you should be. They are also owned and operated by Binance, so you can guarantee you will have absolutely zero privacy when using Trust wallet.

Avoid it.

Your answer summarizes all the points I wanted to clarify. Thank you.
To clarify also it was made by independent developer named Victor Viktor Radchenko and was purchased by binance later on. Before completing the purchase, it was open source and had an announcement thread on the forum. I forgot where i saved the link to that thread and searched for it, but found nothing.
I also never recommend using it as a main wallet but it may be useful for Binance users who can link their accounts on the platform to that wallet.