Glossary
Burner Wallet
A disposable, low-value crypto wallet kept separate from your main holdings so that risky actions like minting, airdrop claims, or testing unknown dApps can't drain your real funds.
A burner wallet is a secondary, throwaway address funded with only a small amount of crypto and used for interactions that carry elevated risk — minting a new NFT, claiming an airdrop, connecting to an untested dApp, or clicking a link you are not sure about. Because it holds almost nothing of value, it acts as a sacrificial buffer between the wider ecosystem and the wallet where your real holdings live.
The security logic is about blast radius. If a burner signs a malicious token approval or interacts with a scam contract, the most an attacker can take is whatever sits in that burner — not your entire portfolio. Many users spin up a fresh burner for each risky session and abandon it afterward, keeping their main wallet cold and never exposing it to unknown code.