# Oath articles

Guides, security notes and stories from the people building Oath.


## [Your Crypto, Their Permission: The $388 Million Bitget Wake-Up Call](https://articles.oathwallet.org/bitget-388-million-hack-self-custody)

Bitget’s $388 million breach exposes the difference between a protected balance and control of your money. A sourced examination of exchange failures, self-custody, and the responsibilities that come with your keys.

English · 2026-09-28 · 14 min read

## [Oath 3.5.5: A Better Feel for Every Transfer](https://articles.oathwallet.org/oath-3-5-5-slide-to-send-transaction-activity)

Meet Slide to Send, clearer transaction activity, better Max fee handling, and simpler transaction details. A complete guide with real app screenshots and a hands-on video.

English · 2026-09-14 · 12 min read

## [Inside Oath 3.5.4: Recovery With More Range](https://articles.oathwallet.org/oath-3-5-4-bitcoin-recovery-clearer-sending)

A detailed guide to broader Bitcoin recovery, BRD wallets, Silent Payment output exports, clearer Coin Control, fee funding, and everyday improvements—with real app screenshots.

English · 2026-09-13 · 17 min read

## [Bitcoin, Address by Address](https://articles.oathwallet.org/bitcoin-settings-oath-address-types-indexes-complete-guide)

The complete guide to Bitcoin in Oath: address types, custom indexes, change, Silent Payments, coin control, fees, and recovery. Illustrated with real app screenshots.

English · 2026-09-11 · 23 min read

## [The Feature Is the Boundary: Why Oath Has No Swaps, Perps, Web3 Browser, or WalletConnect](https://articles.oathwallet.org/why-oath-has-no-swaps-perps-web3-walletconnect)

Swaps, trading, dApp browsers, and wallet connections can be useful. They also expand what a wallet must connect to, decode, approve, and trust. Oath’s smaller surface is a deliberate security boundary—not an unfinished roadmap.

English · 2026-09-04 · 25 min read

## [Coldcard’s Weak-Seed Crisis: Complexity Is Not the Same as Security](https://articles.oathwallet.org/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

The 2026 Coldcard incident did not remotely compromise the devices. It exposed something more fundamental: a sophisticated enclosure cannot protect a seed that was predictable at birth.

English · 2026-09-03 · 18 min read

## [Oath 2.40.12: Monero, Major Bitcoin Upgrades, and Safer Sending](https://articles.oathwallet.org/oath-2-40-12-monero-bitcoin-safer-sending-wallet-tools)

Oath 2.40.12 adds complete Monero mainnet support, five Bitcoin receiving standards, EVM permission controls, safer sending, local wallet tools, seven languages, and system-wide reliability improvements.

English · 2026-09-02 · 18 min read

## [Send to a Name, Not a String: ENS, .sol, SPACE ID, and Payment IDs](https://articles.oathwallet.org/send-to-name-ens-sol-space-id-payment-ids)

Oath resolves human-readable recipient names into validated mainnet addresses—while keeping the network, final address, and your verification in control.

English · 2026-08-31 · 12 min read

## [Understand Any Transaction: Status, Hash, Fees, Addresses, and Local Notes](https://articles.oathwallet.org/understand-transaction-status-hash-fees-addresses-local-notes)

Read an Oath transaction from status to settlement: verify its ID, separate the network fee, inspect both addresses, and attach a private local note.

English · 2026-08-31 · 13 min read

## [Add a Custom Token Without Trusting Its Name or Symbol](https://articles.oathwallet.org/add-custom-token-without-trusting-name-symbol)

Add a token by the identity that matters—mainnet plus contract or mint address—then understand what names, symbols, decimals, logos, and prices can and cannot prove.

English · 2026-08-31 · 12 min read

## [Lock Oath Down: Passcode, Face ID, Auto-Lock, and App Switcher Privacy](https://articles.oathwallet.org/lock-oath-down-passcode-face-id-auto-lock-app-switcher-privacy)

Build a practical local access boundary with Oath’s app passcode, Face ID shortcut, automatic locking, and balance-redacting app-switcher privacy.

English · 2026-08-31 · 10 min read

## [What Never Leaves Your iPhone: Oath’s Self-Custody Security Model](https://articles.oathwallet.org/what-never-leaves-iphone-oath-self-custody-security-model)

See exactly where Oath keeps spending authority, what public wallet data reaches network providers, and how optional encrypted backup and direct transfer change the boundary.

English · 2026-08-31 · 12 min read

## [Receive Crypto Safely: Network, Address, QR Code, and Requested Amounts](https://articles.oathwallet.org/receive-crypto-safely-network-address-qr-requested-amounts)

Choose the exact asset and mainnet, verify the public destination, understand what the QR carries, and treat every requested amount as a request—not an authorization.

English · 2026-08-31 · 13 min read

## [Find Anything in Your Wallet: Oath Universal Search](https://articles.oathwallet.org/find-anything-wallet-oath-universal-search)

Search wallet actions, settings, managed wallets, mainnets, assets, prices, and selected-wallet activity from one local field—then jump directly to the result.

English · 2026-08-31 · 13 min read

## [Silent Payments in Oath: Release Support and Recovery Limits](https://articles.oathwallet.org/silent-payments-oath-reusable-bitcoin-address-without-reuse)

Understand what the public Oath 4.0.0 release supports, why receiving and discovery are unavailable, and what to check before restoring or moving a wallet.

English · 2026-08-30 · 14 min read

## [Why Bitcoin Wallets Generate Fresh Receiving Addresses](https://articles.oathwallet.org/why-bitcoin-wallets-generate-fresh-receiving-addresses)

A Bitcoin wallet is not one address. See how Oath derives fresh receiving and change destinations from one recovery credential while keeping every satoshi in one spendable wallet.

English · 2026-08-30 · 12 min read

## [One Wallet, Many Mainnets: How Oath Keeps Accounts and Networks Separate](https://articles.oathwallet.org/one-wallet-many-mainnets-accounts-networks-separate)

One Oath wallet can manage many mainnet identities, but every address, asset, balance, fee, nonce, and transaction remains attached to its exact network.

English · 2026-08-30 · 10 min read

## [Recovery Phrase, Private Key, iCloud, or iPhone Transfer? Choose the Right Import](https://articles.oathwallet.org/recovery-phrase-private-key-icloud-iphone-transfer-import)

Four ways in—but four very different results. Choose the credential that matches what you still have, whether you need one account, one wallet, a deterministic multi-network wallet, or your complete Oath setup.

English · 2026-08-30 · 11 min read

## [Where Crypto Network Fees Actually Go](https://articles.oathwallet.org/where-crypto-network-fees-actually-go)

A network fee is not one universal charge. Follow it through miner rewards, validator tips, burns, L1 settlement, storage funds, and protocol pools—and see exactly what Oath does with none of it.

English · 2026-08-30 · 12 min read

## [Send Crypto Without Guesswork: From Recipient to Finality](https://articles.oathwallet.org/send-crypto-without-guesswork-recipient-to-finality)

Oath turns a transfer into a chain of explicit checks: exact asset, validated destination, lossless amount, visible network fee, locally bound authorization, one-shot broadcast, and exact-hash finality.

English · 2026-08-30 · 12 min read

## [Move Everything to a New iPhone—Directly, Encrypted, and Serverless](https://articles.oathwallet.org/move-oath-to-new-iphone-direct-encrypted-serverless)

Move wallets, accounts, activity, contacts, and settings straight from your old iPhone to a clean new one—through a short-lived, mutually authenticated, encrypted nearby connection with no Oath transfer server.

English · 2026-08-30 · 8 min read

## [Lose Your Phone, Not Your Wallet: Backup and Restore in Oath](https://articles.oathwallet.org/backup-restore-oath-wallet)

A phone is replaceable. Your recovery access is not. Learn how Oath combines verified manual backups with passkey-encrypted iCloud restore—and what to prepare before a device disappears.

English · 2026-08-30 · 8 min read

## [One Recovery Phrase. A Separate Wallet: BIP-39 Passphrases in Oath](https://articles.oathwallet.org/add-bip39-passphrase-oath-wallet)

Add an optional BIP-39 passphrase to derive a separate wallet from the same recovery words—then back up both secrets without confusing one wallet for another.

English · 2026-08-30 · 5 min read

## [One Amount, Every Context: Meet Oath’s Currency Converter](https://articles.oathwallet.org/oath-currency-converter-crypto-fiat-metals)

Convert crypto, fiat currencies, and precious metals together in one editable view—then keep the tool one tap from Home.

English · 2026-08-30 · 4 min read

## [Make Randomness Physical: Build an Oath Wallet with Dice, Coins, or Digits](https://articles.oathwallet.org/build-wallet-with-dice-coin-flips-random-digits)

Oath turns fair physical outcomes into the exact 256 bits behind a 24-word BIP-39 recovery phrase—entirely on your device.

English · 2026-08-30 · 4 min read

## [Coldcard-এর দুর্বল-সিড সংকট: জটিলতা নিরাপত্তার সমার্থক নয়](https://articles.oathwallet.org/bn/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

2026 সালের Coldcard ঘটনায় ডিভাইসগুলো দূর থেকে আপসকৃত হয়নি। ঘটনাটি আরও মৌলিক এক সত্য উন্মোচন করেছে: জন্মমুহূর্তেই অনুমানযোগ্য ছিল—এমন সিডকে পরিশীলিত আবরণও সুরক্ষিত রাখতে পারে না।

বাংলা · 2026-09-03 · 19 min read

## [Кризис слабых сид-фраз Coldcard: сложность не равнозначна безопасности](https://articles.oathwallet.org/ru/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

Инцидент с Coldcard в 2026 году не был удалённым взломом устройств. Он выявил более фундаментальную проблему: сложный корпус не способен защитить сид-фразу, которая была предсказуема с момента создания.

Русский · 2026-09-03 · 19 min read

## [Crisis de las semillas débiles de Coldcard: complejidad no equivale a seguridad](https://articles.oathwallet.org/es/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

El incidente de Coldcard de 2026 no comprometió los dispositivos de forma remota. Reveló algo más fundamental: una carcasa sofisticada no puede proteger una semilla que era predecible desde su creación.

Español · 2026-09-03 · 23 min read

## [Coldcardの脆弱シード危機――複雑さはセキュリティと同義ではない](https://articles.oathwallet.org/ja/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

2026年のColdcard事件で、デバイスがリモートから侵害されたわけではない。この事件が露呈させたのは、より根本的な問題だ。どれほど高度な筐体でも、生成時点から予測可能だったシードは守れない。

日本語 · 2026-09-03 · 29 min read

## [Coldcard کے کمزور سیڈ کا بحران: پیچیدگی سکیورٹی کے مترادف نہیں](https://articles.oathwallet.org/ur/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

2026 کے Coldcard واقعے میں آلات کو دور سے قابو نہیں کیا گیا۔ اس نے ایک زیادہ بنیادی حقیقت آشکار کی: نفیس غلاف ایسے سیڈ کی حفاظت نہیں کر سکتا جو پیدائش ہی سے قابلِ پیش گوئی ہو۔

اردو · 2026-09-03 · 25 min read

## [Coldcard 弱种子危机：复杂性不等于安全性](https://articles.oathwallet.org/zh-Hans/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

2026 年 Coldcard 事件并非设备遭远程攻破。它揭示了更根本的问题：再精密的外壳，也保护不了一个从诞生之初便可预测的种子。

简体中文 · 2026-09-03 · 22 min read

## [Krisis Seed Lemah Coldcard: Kompleksitas Tidak Sama dengan Keamanan](https://articles.oathwallet.org/id/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

Insiden Coldcard 2026 tidak membobol perangkat dari jarak jauh. Insiden itu mengungkap persoalan yang lebih mendasar: selubung canggih tidak dapat melindungi seed yang sudah dapat diprediksi sejak dibuat.

Bahasa Indonesia · 2026-09-03 · 19 min read

## [Coldcards Krise um schwache Seeds: Komplexität ist nicht gleich Sicherheit](https://articles.oathwallet.org/de/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

Beim Coldcard-Vorfall von 2026 wurden die Geräte keineswegs aus der Ferne kompromittiert. Er legte etwas Grundlegenderes offen: Ein ausgeklügeltes Gehäuse kann keinen Seed schützen, der schon bei seiner Entstehung vorhersehbar war.

Deutsch · 2026-09-03 · 20 min read

## [La crise des graines faibles de Coldcard : la complexité n’est pas synonyme de sécurité](https://articles.oathwallet.org/fr/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

L’incident Coldcard de 2026 n’a entraîné aucune compromission à distance des appareils. Il a mis au jour une réalité plus fondamentale : un boîtier sophistiqué ne peut protéger une graine qui était prévisible dès sa création.

Français · 2026-09-03 · 24 min read

## [Coldcard का कमजोर-सीड संकट: जटिलता और सुरक्षा एक ही बात नहीं हैं](https://articles.oathwallet.org/hi/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

2026 की Coldcard घटना में उपकरणों को दूर से अपने नियंत्रण में नहीं लिया गया था। उसने कहीं अधिक मूलभूत समस्या उजागर की: परिष्कृत आवरण भी उस सीड की रक्षा नहीं कर सकता जिसका जन्म के समय ही अनुमान लगाया जा सकता था।

हिन्दी · 2026-09-03 · 23 min read

## [Coldcard 취약 시드 위기: 복잡성이 곧 보안은 아니다](https://articles.oathwallet.org/ko/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

2026년 Coldcard 사건은 기기가 원격으로 침해된 사건이 아니었다. 오히려 더 근본적인 사실을 드러냈다. 아무리 정교한 외장이라도 생성 순간부터 예측 가능했던 시드는 보호할 수 없다.

한국어 · 2026-09-03 · 17 min read

## [A crise das sementes fracas da Coldcard: complexidade não é o mesmo que segurança](https://articles.oathwallet.org/pt-BR/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

O incidente da Coldcard em 2026 não comprometeu remotamente os dispositivos. Ele expôs algo mais fundamental: um invólucro sofisticado não pode proteger uma semente que era previsível desde sua criação.

Português (Brasil) · 2026-09-03 · 23 min read

## [Coldcard’ın Zayıf Tohum Krizi: Karmaşıklık Güvenlikle Aynı Şey Değildir](https://articles.oathwallet.org/tr/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

2026’daki Coldcard vakasında cihazlar uzaktan ele geçirilmedi. Vaka, daha temel bir gerçeği açığa çıkardı: Gelişmiş bir muhafaza, oluşturulduğu anda öngörülebilir olan bir tohumu koruyamaz.

Türkçe · 2026-09-03 · 18 min read

## [أزمة البذور الضعيفة في Coldcard: التعقيد ليس مرادفًا للأمن](https://articles.oathwallet.org/ar/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

لم تتعرض أجهزة Coldcard للاختراق عن بُعد في حادثة عام 2026. بل كشفت الحادثة عن أمر أكثر جوهرية: لا يستطيع غلاف متطور حماية بذرة كان من الممكن التنبؤ بها منذ لحظة إنشائها.

العربية · 2026-09-03 · 18 min read

## [Khủng hoảng seed yếu của Coldcard: Phức tạp không đồng nghĩa với bảo mật](https://articles.oathwallet.org/vi/coldcard-weak-seed-crisis-complexity-verifiable-wallet-security)

Trong sự cố Coldcard năm 2026, các thiết bị không hề bị xâm nhập từ xa. Sự cố ấy phơi bày một vấn đề căn bản hơn: lớp vỏ tinh vi không thể bảo vệ một seed vốn đã có thể dự đoán ngay từ khi ra đời.

Tiếng Việt · 2026-09-03 · 31 min read