Is Shieldz safe?

Short version: Shieldz is non-custodial. It never holds your money, never asks you to connect a wallet or approve a token allowance, and cannot move or freeze your funds. Here's exactly why — and how to verify it yourself.

No wallet connection. No approvals. No drainer.

Crypto "wallet drainers" steal funds by getting you to connect a wallet and approve a token allowance — an "unlimited allowance" that then lets a contract spend your balance. Shieldz never does this. Buyers pay by sending crypto to a one-time address — or scanning a QR — exactly like any normal transfer. There is no smart contract to approve and no allowance to grant, so the one mechanism drainers depend on simply isn't there.

If you sign in to the dashboard with a wallet, that's a plain message signature proving you own the address (Sign-In with Ethereum). A message signature moves no funds and grants no spending access.

And Shieldz never asks for, receives, or stores your private key, seed phrase, or mnemonic — a non-custodial tool never needs them, and there's no field for one. It only ever holds a public key (your address, an xpub, or a view-only key), which can generate your receive addresses but mathematically cannot spend. If any site ever asks you for your seed phrase or private key, close the tab — we never will. See the cryptographic proof →

Shieldz never holds your money

You give a receive address (or an extended public key); Shieldz derives a payment address that belongs to you, watches the chain, and notifies you when funds land. There's no Shieldz balance, no pooled funds, and no private key on our side — so there's nothing for us to freeze, lose in a hack, or run off with.

Verify it yourself

• The receiving address is shown on the checkout. With a single settlement address, every invoice pays exactly the address you set — check it.
• Payments happen on public blockchains: any payment is verifiable on a block explorer, and a confirmed payment is final and already in your wallet.
• There's no "withdrawal" step and therefore no withdrawal trap. The classic scam — "pay a network/activation fee to release your balance" — is impossible here, because Shieldz holds no balance to release.

Who's behind it

Shieldz is built by Deniz Yanbollu (@dnzynbl) and the team behind LeoKit — the open-source cross-chain routing aggregator that also powers LeoDex. Reach us in the open on X, Telegram, or at [email protected]. Our security contact (RFC 9116) is published at security.txt.

No KYC, $0 fees, no lock-in

No KYC to start, $0 platform fees, and your funds are never held — see how it stays free, why there's no KYC, and how it works.