| Protection | Covers | Does not cover |
|---|---|---|
| The signature check | Whether you are where you think you are | Whether the party is honest, whether your machine is trustworthy, anything after login |
| Escrow | The platform moving funds alone | A vendor who does not ship, your own account compromised, anything paid outside it, a parked balance |
| A second factor | A leaked or reused password | A live copy of the login page, anything running on your machine |
| The currency | The chain hop | The exchange record, timing at the boundary, custodial services, your own device |
| A vendor record | Who to deal with | When somebody changes their mind, and accounts that changed hands |
| The published address list | What is currently in use | Whether the party answering is genuine |
| Reading the middle | A near miss address | A wholesale substitution on your own machine, which needs the ends instead |
The false confidence this creates
People who follow the per session routine carefully sometimes become less careful about everything else, because they feel covered. That is the predictable consequence of holding one strong guarantee in a situation full of weak ones, and it is worth watching for in yourself.
A verified arrival at the genuine market still leaves you exposed to a vendor who does not ship, a balance sitting where it should not, a password reused somewhere else, and a machine you have not thought about. None of those are affected by the signature at all.
The one thing no task here reaches
Your own machine. Verification runs locally, so a system that can be made to lie about the result makes the whole schedule theatre. Nothing on this site establishes that your computer is trustworthy, and pretending otherwise would be the most dangerous thing it could say. On a shared or managed device the honest answer is not to do this at all.
Six questions and what answers them
| Question | What answers it |
|---|---|
| Am I where I think I am? | The signature check, and nothing else |
| Is my account safe if a password leaks? | A second factor, and credentials used nowhere else |
| Is my machine trustworthy? | How you set it up and what you install. Nothing here establishes it. |
| Will this vendor deliver? | Their record, with all its known limits |
| Is my money exposed? | Whether it is committed to an order or sitting as a balance |
| Can this be linked back to me? | What happened at the boundary, before any of this started |