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Moving Your Assets Urgently: What to Prepare and What to Expect

Updated 2026-09-21

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MovingWallet cannot recover funds that were already stolen, and it cannot stop an attacker. It has no special rescue flow. If someone else controls your wallet's keys, they can move your assets at any moment — before, during or after anything you do here. No tool can change that.

What MovingWallet does is the same thing it does for everyone: it builds a plan to move the assets you choose to another address, shows you the steps, the route and the estimated costs, and lets you sign each transaction from your own wallet. If you want to move assets urgently, you use that same standard flow. This guide is about preparing for it and using it carefully.

Prepare Before You Need It

Have a destination wallet ready. A wallet whose seed phrase you generated yourself, wrote down on paper and stored securely, and that has not been connected to any website. A hardware wallet that has never been used is a good choice.

Do not use another account derived from the same seed phrase as the wallet you are leaving: if that seed is exposed, every account under it is exposed.

Know what you hold. Assets are often spread across several networks. Decide in advance what matters most to you, so you are not deciding under pressure.

Step 1: Connect the Wallet You Are Leaving

Connect the wallet that holds the assets. Connecting is read-only; you need this wallet to sign the outgoing transactions later. If you can no longer sign from it, MovingWallet cannot move anything from it.

Step 2: Start the Standard Flow

On the portfolio screen, "Move everything now" takes you into the standard flow with a wallet-wide move already selected. It is a shortcut into the same flow, not a different one: you still review the plan and sign every transaction yourself.

Step 3: Enter the Destination Address

Enter the address of the wallet you prepared. Check it carefully — at minimum the first and last six characters — and check it again on your wallet's confirmation screen before signing. A transfer to a wrong address cannot be undone.

Step 4: Review the Plan

Review what the plan shows before anything is signed: the assets, the steps, the route and the estimated costs. This review is not skipped when you are in a hurry. Mistakes made in a rush — wrong address, wrong network — are as irreversible as any other.

Step 5: Sign Each Transaction

Sign each transaction as your wallet prompts you. Nothing is submitted automatically, and nothing is batched into a single click on your behalf.

Step 6: Afterwards

  1. Revoke token approvals on the old wallet with a tool such as Revoke.cash or Etherscan's token approval checker. MovingWallet does not do this for you.
  2. Stop using the old wallet for anything valuable, and do not fund it again.
  3. Report the incident to the relevant platforms if you were phished.

What This Cannot Do

  • It cannot recover stolen funds, reverse a confirmed transaction, or retrieve a lost or exposed seed phrase.
  • It cannot stop or outrun someone who already has your keys.
  • It cannot move assets from a wallet you can no longer sign from.
  • It cannot move staked assets with lock-up periods, or cancel a transaction that was already submitted.
  • Bridge steps, where used, still take real time.
  • It does not replace your own security measures.

For stuck transfers, wrong-network assets and other transfer problems, see Wallet Transfer Problems & Safe Migration. For the standard step-by-step flow, see How to Migrate Your Crypto Wallet.

Not Financial Advice

MovingWallet is a tool. It cannot guarantee that assets stay safe or prevent losses. Use it as one part of a broader security practice.

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