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How I built a wallet risk scanner on a Raspberry Pi, and what it taught me about Web3 trust.

DEV Community·Oleksandr·about 1 month ago
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A few weeks ago I got frustrated with how Web3 security tools felt. Dark, aggressive, technical, intimidating. Every wallet scanner looked like it was designed to scare you rather than inform you. So I built my own. It runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 sitting in my room. It's live at scan.chlora.xyz and it's free . Here's what I built, how I built it, and what reading DeFi hack post-mortems at night taught me about why the trust problem in Web3 is much bigger than anyone's scanner can fully solve. At first, it all started on a sunday with just a C++ backend with CMake and an empty Raspberry Pi, I used Etherscan for the scanning part, and then with some algorithms I analyzed the protocols of the wallet. It flagged each protocol in different risk levels based on the control they had over the wallet, and made a clean smooth resulting output.…

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