Wallet scanning, Bitcoin and six EVM chains

This page is a stub. The full guide is written against the shipped app version and is on its way.

If some of your history lives on-chain rather than in an exchange, paste the address into Wallets and the app reads its public history for you, Bitcoin plus six EVM chains, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Gnosis, Optimism and Polygon.

What actually happens. The app fetches the address’s transactions from public block explorers, the same pages anyone can open in a browser, mempool.space for Bitcoin and the Etherscan family for the EVM chains. This is one of the three optional network features stated plainly in the privacy model. What is sent is the address you typed, which is already public information on a public ledger. What is never sent is anything else in your workspace.

What comes back. Incoming and outgoing movements with dates and amounts, ready for the same preview and reconciliation as any file import. Transfers between your own addresses link up once both sides are in the workspace, which is exactly why it is worth adding all your addresses, not just the busy one.

What scanning cannot know. A public ledger shows movements, not meanings. The scan cannot tell a purchase from a gift or an income payment from a loan repayment, so anything ambiguous queues in Reconcile for your judgment. It also cannot see your exchange balances, exchanges are off-chain, which is what file imports and exchange sync are for.