Risks

Risk disclosure

A non-custodial wallet hands you full control, and full control means full responsibility. This page says what can go wrong, without softening it.

Last updated: 29 September 2026

You are your own bank, including the bad parts There is no password reset, no support desk that can restore access, no chargeback and no insurance. Every safeguard a bank gives you is absent by design, and in exchange nobody can freeze or seize what is yours.

Losing your recovery phrase

Your recovery phrase is the wallet. Lose it and the tokens are unreachable forever; share it and whoever has it can take everything immediately. Nobody from ORD20 or ORDnet will ever ask you for it — anyone who does is trying to rob you. Write it down, keep it offline, and keep it somewhere a fire or a flood would not take with it.

Transactions are final

A signed and broadcast transaction cannot be recalled, reversed or amended. Send to the wrong address and the tokens are with whoever controls that address. Check the address and the amount before approving, every time.

Token value

An ORD20 unit is backed by one satoshi, and the holder can always release it back to plain BSV. That is a floor in satoshis, before fees — it is not a floor in euros, because the value of BSV itself moves. Beyond that floor, what a token is worth is whatever someone will pay, which can be nothing.

Anyone can deploy a token on the ORD20 standard. The standard does not vouch for the people behind a token, their promises or their intentions. Read the token card before you mint: the cap, the premint, the mint fee and whether issuance can still be closed are all visible, and they are fixed at deploy time.

Software and protocol

The ORD20 protocol is at version 1 and is not frozen. The apps, the extension, the index and the contracts are tested, but no software is free of defects. A bug, a chain reorganisation or an outage can cost you fees or leave a transaction in an unclear state for a while.

Regulation and tax

Rules on crypto-assets differ per country and change. Whether you may use these tools, and what you owe in tax on what you do with them, is your responsibility to find out. Nothing here is legal or tax advice.

Scams

Most losses in this field are not technical failures; they are people being talked into something. Treat unexpected messages, giveaways, "support staff" and urgent requests as hostile until proven otherwise. We communicate from ord20.io and from hello@ord20.io, and we never ask for keys or recovery phrases.