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self-custody
Keeping your crypto coins in your own wallet, so only you control them and only you are responsible for them.
The fuller meaning
Holding crypto in a wallet whose keys you control rather than on a platform. It removes the risk of a platform failing or halting withdrawals, but puts all the responsibility on you: a lost or shared recovery phrase means lost coins.
self-custody.
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