Short version: add one wallet address for each payout stream on your profile — a TEXITcoin address for TXC daily rewards, an EVM address for USDC commissions. You can add as many as you like and split the percentage between them. Whether each one is hot or cold is entirely your call.
What a crypto wallet actually is
A wallet doesn't hold coins. The coins live on the blockchain; the wallet holds the private key that proves they're yours and lets you spend them. That's why the backup — a long private key or a 12-word seed phrase — matters more than the app or the device. Lose the key and the coins stay on the chain forever, unreachable. There are no chargebacks, refunds, do-overs or support tickets that can undo it.
The three kinds you'll meet
Cold wallet
Offline storage — a safe deposit box. Best for holding. Our metal Cold Storage Coin is one: keep it safe and it can't be hacked, because it was never online.
Hot wallet
An app on your phone or computer — a checking account. Convenient for sending and receiving, exposed to digital risk. Back up the seed phrase before you use it.
Exchange wallet
Someone else's wallet holding your coins. Fine for the moment you're selling; a bad place to live. Remember FTX and Mt. Gox.
You'll use all three eventually. A common pattern: cold storage for the bulk of your holdings, a hot wallet for day-to-day moves, and an exchange only for the minutes it takes to sell.
Your Cold Storage Coin
Blockchain Mint manufactures a metal cold storage wallet — the Cold Storage Coin — and many miners' first payouts were linked to one. It's offline, effectively indestructible, and tamper-evident. Cold storage converts digital risk into physical risk: instead of hackers, you're guarding against fire, flood and forgetting where you put it.
When you're ready to use the funds, install an appropriate wallet app, peel the tamper seal (clean the residue with nail polish remover or WD-40 — never anything sharp), and use the app's import/scan function on the laser-etched private key. From that moment the coins are in a hot wallet, so treat the backup accordingly.
TXC daily rewards
Daily rewards are broadcast on the TEXITcoin chain to the TXC address on your profile. TEXITcoin has its own hot wallet that supports TXC — send and receive, transaction history, watch-only balance of your Cold Storage Coin, and an import function for when you're ready to move those coins. Node and protocol details live at texitcoin.org/build.
No TXC address on file? Nothing is lost — your rewards accrue in escrow and are released in full the moment you add one. See rewards & tokenomics.
USDC commissions
Commissions are paid in USDC on Ethereum, which means an EVM address — the ones that start with 0x. MetaMask is the easy free option: install it, create a wallet, save the recovery phrase somewhere safe, copy the address, and paste it into your profile.
Every pay center needs its own USDC address. Shared addresses make it impossible to attribute a payment to the right person, and we won't process a commission we can't assign. One wallet, one recipient, no mix-ups.
TSD commissions (legacy address only)
Texas Stable Dollar is an Omni Layer token — property 39 — issued on the TEXITcoin blockchain. That has one consequence you have to get right: Omni reference outputs only recognise legacy base58 addresses, the ones that start with a capital T. Find it in your wallet under Receive → Tokens.
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T…— legacy TEXITcoin, 26–35 base58 characters. This is the only thing TSD can be sent to. - ❌
txc1…— bech32. Omni ignores it and the tokens never arrive. - ❌
0x…— that's an Ethereum address; TSD on our books isn't an ERC-20.
We reject the wrong format before it ever touches the chain — same rule the TSD API enforces. No memo or destination tag is needed.
Setting yours up here
- Open Profile → Payout wallets and choose Add wallet.
- Pick the stream it's for — TXC / ISK / ZCU daily reward, or TSD / USDC commission.
- Paste the address. We validate the checksum, so a typo is rejected rather than paid.
- Set the share. Two TXC wallets at 50% each splits every reward down the middle; one wallet at 100% sends the lot.
- Approve the change: your authenticator code, then the "Was this you?" button in Telegram or the emailed confirmation link. Until you approve, payouts keep going to your existing wallet.
Rules that will save you
- Back up before you fund. Write the seed phrase on paper or metal. Not a screenshot, not a text to yourself.
- Never share a seed phrase or private key. Not with us, not with support, not with anyone. We will never ask.
- Test with a small amount first whenever you use a new address.
- Match the chain. TXC to a TEXITcoin address, USDC to an Ethereum address. Cross them and the funds are gone.
- Crypto transactions are permanent. That's the feature, and the reason for the caution.
Ready to add one?
Head to your profile — then check your rewards to watch payouts land.