Readability over hype — and the quiet strength of cold storage
Ava doesn’t open a settings menu. She sets three things on the table:
a laptop, a phone, and a small metal device that looks like nothing.
“Doors,” she says. “One you click. One you carry. One that sleeps.”
You already named your posture (Learner / Operator / Long-Hold). Now you’ll choose a door that matches it. Not the loudest logo. The door you can read.
Ava starts with the laptop.
“Desktop is where you see clearly. If your wallet can show you, in human words, what you’re about to approve, you cut half your mistakes before they happen.”
She slides two desktop wallets forward.
Ava’s line: “Vision beats courage. But sometimes gravity saves you.”
(Your course page labels: Rabby — Official page, MetaMask — Official page.)
Ava picks up the phone.
“Most people live here,” she says. “If your wallet can’t move with you, you’ll default back to exchanges. That’s not learning.”
She shows you two options:
Ava draws a line in your notebook: Desktop for depth, mobile for presence.
“Rabby gives you both. Trust is fine too. Just pick one you’ll actually open.”
(Labels: Rabby Mobile — Official page, Trust Wallet — Official page.)
The small metal device rests in your hand.
“Hardware,” Ava says, “is the part people skip in conversation and miss when it matters. Ledger. Trezor. The key never touches an online machine. You don’t buy this for speed. You buy it so your future self doesn’t have to bargain with the past.”
She sketches the choreography:
Hot wallet (Rabby, MetaMask, or Trust) interacts.
Cold wallet (Ledger/Trezor) stores.
Explorer mirrors.
Revoke closes windows.
She pauses on the last two lines.
“The explorer is your mirror. Every action you take, the mirror reflects it back—untainted, unspun. If the explorer doesn’t show it, it didn’t happen. You paste the Txn Hash into your notes, glance at the To address, and that’s the proof you keep.”
Then she taps the word Revoke.
“Every approval you grant is a window. Some need to stay open briefly, but if you walk away without closing them, the draft eventually chills the whole house. Revoke is the tool that shuts the window after you’re done. You click revoke, confirm once, refresh—and watch the approval vanish from the list. Security feels like silence.”
Hot for interaction. Cold for sleep. Mobile stays light even when you own a vault.
Ava rewrites the three roles as if they’re scripts:
She looks up. “Which one are you today?” The word you say aloud matters more than the tool.
One rule saves hours later: one wallet extension per browser profile.
If you want Rabby and MetaMask, each gets its own. No collisions, no ghost prompts. On mobile, install Rabby or Trust from the official page—not search, not ads. Lanes before speed.
The fan hums, the phone buzzes, the hardware sits heavy in your hand.
You feel the path settle under your feet.
Ava closes the notebook.
“Door chosen,” she says, voice even. “Next we cross the river—carefully, with receipts.”