How to check your crypto on-chain
Your balance exists on a public record, not only on our screen. Here is how to open that record and read your own address, without an account anywhere.
Every operation you make on Inkryptus is written to a public record that anyone can read, and you do not need our permission or our app to read it. You open a block explorer, paste your wallet address, and see the same balance and the same transactions the app shows you. This is how that works, and what it does and does not prove.
What does "on-chain" mean?
On-chain means the record lives on the blockchain rather than in a company's database.
That distinction is the whole point. A balance in an ordinary app exists because the company says it does, and if the company disappears so does the record. A balance on-chain exists on a network that thousands of computers keep a copy of, and it is still there whether or not the company is.
Inkryptus is built this way deliberately. Your address, your transactions and the contracts behind staking are on the public record. What that gives you is not a promise but a way to check.
What is a block explorer?
A block explorer is a website that reads the blockchain and shows it to you in plain rows.
It is not owned by us and it does not ask you to sign in. You give it an address and it lists what that address has done: what came in, what went out, when, and in what amount. For the network Inkryptus runs on, that explorer is BscScan.
Think of it as the public ledger's search box. Anyone can use it about any address, including yours, which is the same reason it is useful and the reason an address is not a secret.
How do I look up my own wallet?
Three steps, and none of them touch your account.
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Copy your address from the app. It is on the wallet screen, a long string starting with
0x. Copying it is safe: an address is what people send funds to, so sharing it gives nobody any power over the balance. -
Open the explorer and paste it into the search box. The page that opens is your wallet as the network sees it.
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Read the two things that matter. The balance at the top is what the address holds right now. The list below it is every transaction that address has ever been part of, newest first, each with a date and an amount.
If the balance on that page matches the balance in the app, you have just verified us against a source that is not us.
How do I read a transaction?
Open any row in that list and you get the same handful of fields every time.
Transaction hash. The long code that identifies this one operation, permanently. If support ever asks you which transfer you mean, this is the answer.
From and To. The two addresses. One of them is yours.
Value. How much moved.
Timestamp. When the network recorded it.
Status. Success or failed. A failed transaction did not move funds, though it can still have cost a network fee.
You will also see a fee, paid to the network rather than to us, on transactions that leave the platform. Transfers between two Inkryptus accounts do not carry one.
What this proves, and what it does not
It proves that the address exists, that the movements happened, and that the amounts and dates are what we said they were. It is a genuine check of our figures against a record we do not control.
It does not tell you the rule about who may ask the wallet contract to move funds, because that authorisation scheme is not published. On Inkryptus your wallet is a contract that Inkryptus operates, and how that works is its own article. Verifiability and trust are two different things, and honest copy should not blend them: you can verify the history without that meaning nobody is trusted.
Frequently asked questions
Is it safe to share my wallet address?
Yes. An address is public by design, the way an account number on an invoice is: it is what someone needs in order to send you funds, and it gives nobody the ability to take anything. What must never be shared is a seed phrase or a private key, and on Inkryptus neither of those exists for you to share in the first place. If anyone asks you for one, that alone tells you what the conversation is.
Why does the explorer show a different number from the app?
Usually because the two are measuring different moments or different things. A transaction takes a short time to be recorded, so a very recent operation can appear in one before the other. Staking balances can also sit in a contract rather than directly at your address, which is what the staking page explains. If a difference persists on an ordinary transfer after a few minutes, that is worth a message to support with the transaction hash.
Do I need an account on the explorer?
No. Reading is open to everybody with no sign-up, which is the property that makes it worth anything as a check. An explorer does offer accounts for extra features, and you do not need one to look up an address, open a transaction or read a contract.