Wallets
Your main wallet, the account wallets ftw.trade holds for you, and the project wallets that trade. How keys are kept, and how wallets move between projects.
Three kinds of wallet#
| Wallet | What it is | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Main wallet | Your account's own, on every EVM chain and Solana | Deposits, withdrawals, and funding everything else |
| Account wallets | Keys ftw.trade holds for your account | A pool of wallets to place in projects |
| Project wallets | Account wallets placed in a project, labeled and grouped | Trading: everything on the project trades from them |
A wallet has one EVM address on every EVM chain and its own Solana address. A wallet is in at most one active project at a time; when a project ends, its wallets go back to the account.
How keys are kept#
- Keys are made and held by an isolated signer, a separate service whose only job is signing. The app asks it to sign; it never hands a key out.
- Each key is sealed to its account and address, and checked against its address every time it's opened.
- No strategy, script, workflow or AI ever sees a key. Scripts trade through wallet handles held to the policy you approved.
- You can export any account wallet's key (it asks you to have signed in within 15 minutes), or import one you already have.
More in Security.
Groups and labels#
Within a project each wallet has a label and any number of groups ("buyers", "fleet", "lead"). Everything that trades picks wallets by id or by group, and a workflow can move wallets between groups, so a desk can rotate buyers or retire a spent wallet.
Many wallets#
A project holds up to 200 wallets. To get many with history:
- Warm new ones: fund each on a staggered schedule and run small round trips, so they have history before you need them.
- Buy aged wallets from the marketplace on the Wallets page, filtered by age and transaction count. Payment comes from your main wallet, approved with a signature.
Gas#
Every wallet pays its own gas. Keep a little ETH in each on the chains it trades (SOL on Solana). Strategies on protocols bring their own gas to the market's chain.