What is a wallet?
A key, not a bag.
A wallet is a key, not a bag. Your coins live on Solana, not in the app. The wallet holds the key that proves they are yours.
Public address, private key. The address is like an account number: share it to receive. The private key signs for you. Share it and the wallet is theirs.
The app signs for you. When you click approve, the wallet signs the transaction with your private key. Read what you are approving.
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Connect, or hand over the keys? A site asks you to connect. Buy means paste what it asks for, skip means close the tab.
What is a wallet? · 2 min
A wallet is a key, not a bag.
Your coins live on Solana, not in the app. The wallet holds the key that proves they are yours.
Go deeper
The private key is derived from your seed phrase, and the public address is derived from the private key. It only works in one direction: the address cannot be turned back into the key. That is why sharing an address is safe and sharing the key or the phrase is not.