With the start of 2022, Asia’s biggest self-custodial wallet is in its 6th year 🎉 That’s why we want to share with you some interesting insights we gathered in 2021: User support insights, new features and more in our Year in Review. Read on: We also successfully cracked down on 29 impersonating websites together with our security partners, and blocked 120+ fake apps from various channels. And, improved our risk control system detecting scams, and improved risk reminders for well-known scams. Also, supporting Tezos with XTZ staking as the first major mobile wallet. And, introducing all Ethereum testnets, for developers to test their DApps and send transactions before going mainnet. Supporting 10+ mainstream EVM chains, too: 1 click to switch to BSC, Heco, Polygon, Fantom, Gnosis Chain (former: xDAI), Celo, Avalanche, Cronos and more. Many thanks to you, the user, for supporting us on this journey!   Find the latest update on: Google Play | Apple App Store Follow us: Twitter | Support | token.im

Recently, imToken added support for the Celo chain. Helping users to manage their digital assets on the Celo chain and have a chance to experience the Celo’s ecosystem on imToken.  Compared to Ethereum mainnet, Celo has lower fees for on-chain transactions and better network performance. Since Celo is EVM compatible, developers can easily and quickly deploy smart contracts and DApps on Celo.  EVM is the abbreviation of Ethereum Virtual Machine, which executes smart contracts on Ethereum environments. To fulfill Celo’s mission of building a better, more equitable financial system. Ubeswap is a decentralized exchange and automated market maker protocol optimized for mobile-phone. At its core, Ubeswap enables Celo users to swap between any two Celo ERC-20 tokens with negligible transaction fees (less than 0.01$).  Ubeswap’s mission is to bring the benefits of mobile-native DeFi to any person with a mobile phone, and believes that the first step to getting there is to make it cheaper for users to trade on-chain by increasing liquidity. The Ube team is working hard on building an easy, cross-chain, and secure user experience for yield farming and swapping on Celo. Currently, Ubeswap supports 6 Layer-1 bridged assets and more. Celo’s users can generate additional rewards – $UBE token by participating in the yield farming of Ubeswap.  Bridged assets refer to the tokens bridged to the Celo network using bridges like Optics bridge, Allbridge, Multichain Bridge, etc. Users can bridge them back to their naive/any other supported network they want. Yield farming is a way to generate additional rewards on their existing crypto by staking or lending crypto assets in order to generate high returns or rewards in the form of additional cryptocurrency.  Ubeswap will launch the incentivized lending/borrowing market, NFT & Metaverse markets in the future.    Event Start 2022/01/14 11:00 - 2022/01/20 18:30 (SGT) Event Rules Follow imToken and Ubeswap’s Twitter, share the form link with at least one friend who fills it out for a chance of some of $7,000 in UBE imToken Twitter Ubeswap Twitter During the campaign period, one 1 lucky user will be awarded $1,000 in UBE each day, with the highest scores and then fastest completion of the questions. The lucky user prize will last for 3 days and the total prize pool will be $3,000 in UBE. Please fill in your imToken’s Ethereum wallet address after completing the quiz. The winner list will be announced in the imToken Discord community within 7 business days with the rewards releasing. Join the imToken Discord community. How can the winner check their UBE rewards? Click on "Ethereum Mainnet" at the top of the imToken asset page and select Celo. Click "+" → "Custom Token" on the asset page, enter the UBE contract address in "Token Contract Address": 0x00Be915B9dCf56a3CBE739D9B9c202ca692409EC and save. Return to the assets page to see the UBE reward.   Event Entrance: https://landings.token.im/en-US/r/ubeswap We will announce the relevant information on Discord 👇 https://discord.com/invite/fjX85Ww4Nw 

We are always working on new ways to protect users. This update brings more warnings and anti-fraud explainers in the app. New on the latest v2.9.9 : Supporting more EVM chains, including Aurora and Cronos Updated Authorization Notification  Squashed some bugs, and other improvements  Support Aurora & Cronos Chain  What is Aurora Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) built on the NEAR Protocol, providing a solution for developers to deploy their apps on an Ethereum-compatible, high-throughput, scalable and future-safe platform, with low transaction costs for their users. Aurora is backed by top VCs such as Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Three Arrows Capital, and Alameda Research. Read more on our blog: https://medium.com/imtoken/imtoken-now-fully-supports-aurora-3279671ab224  What is Cronos Cronos is the first Cosmos EVM chain for DeFi, NFTs and Metaverse. It aims to massively scale the DeFi and decentralized application ecosystem, by providing developers with the ability to instantly port apps from Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains. With low cost, high throughput, fast finality, and built-in interoperability, Cronos is poised to bring decentralized applications to the 10M+ user base of the Crypto.com ecosystem and beyond. Read more on our blog: https://medium.com/imtoken/launching-full-support-for-cronos-on-imtoken-e2ce004209d4  How to try it on imToken Entering the wallet and switching to ‘Cronos’ in the menu on the top. Then click the ecosystem button to use the DApps on Cronos chain.  Upgraded Authorization Notification  Recently, there have been a lot of authorization scams. Scammers instigates users to "invest” the project, like “Mine with high APY” or “stable high APY” for transfering users’ assets at any time without users permission.  For protecting users’ assets from such scams, imToken 2.9.9 has enhanced the authorization risk warning to add triple security protection. First Protection｜Third party website risk alert Scammers often trick users to access third-party websites through the imToken browser to commit fraud.  imToken has optimized the risk warning when users access third-party websites within the common scams at the same time to help users to identify scams and strengthen their security awareness. Risk Warning page in imToken Second Protection｜Risk Tips for Transfer Authorization Fraudulent websites are usually disguised as "airdrop coin exchange" or "deposit coins to earn", in fact they want the transfer authorization and steal your money secretly.  imToken has optimized the risk warning for transfer authorization. Since a user clicks the transfer button on the website, it will trigger the transfer authorization page to pop up. 👇 Transfer Authorization Page Note: Since there are many types of authorized scams with hidden techniques, if you do not receive a risk alert when you visit a third party website to participate in an investment, it does not mean that your operation is safe. Please improve your scam identification skills. You can contact us at  support@token.im if you need any help. Third Protection｜Authorization details alert Scammers often set up the authorization quantity that is infinite or ‘9999999’ to obtain the permission for transferring all the tokens in the user's wallet.  We optimized the description so that the "Allowance Details” page clearly shows the relevant number of tokens approved.  In addition, imToken has also released a tutorial about authorization and cancellation to check whether your token allowance has been leaked. 👉 Security Alert｜Please be aware of token authorization scam How to Update?  Android users: You can download from the official website https://token.im or at your favorite App store (Google Play). iOS users: You can download from the App Store. Always Backup Your Keys Before upgrading, please make sure that all wallet identities have been backed up properly. Please write down the Mnemonic phrase on a physical paper, never store it in the network; Please refrain from sharing your private key, Mnemonic phrase or Keystore to anyone! If you find potential hacking activities in imToken, please report to us via email at hack@token.im to prevent more people from being deceived; Please have a look at our Help Center at https://support.token.im/hc/en-us  for more detailed information about imToken. Download imToken: Google Play | Apple App Store And follow us: Twitter | Support | token.im

What are Ethereum gas fees? You need to pay ETH as gas fees when you start a transaction on Ethereum with an ETH wallet, and the gas fees can only be paid with ETH. The Ethereum network will prioritize the transactions with higher gas fees. What is EIP-1559? Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 aims to change the way gas fees are estimated so as to help users save costs and effectively increase the probability of their transactions being confirmed by the Ethereum network. Further reading: Ethereum’s London hard fork: What is EIP-1559? How are gas fees calculated? Before calculating, you need to know the following 5 concepts first. Gas: the Ethereum network consumes computational resources to execute each transaction, and gas is the unit of measuring resources. BaseFee: the lowest price of gas calculated by the Ethernet network to ensure a successful transaction. PriorityFee: the tip you pay for each unit of gas to speed up the transaction. MaxPriorityFee: the maximum tip you pay for each unit of gas. MaxFee: the maximum price you pay for each unit of gas Gas Fees = Units of Gas Used * (BaseFee + PriorityFee) You can think of the process of transferring a certain amount of tokens as driving a car, and the gasoline consumed during the journey is Gas. The costs(i.e. the gas fees) are the gasoline consumed for the journey multiplied by the price of gasoline (baseFee + PriorityFee). BaseFee is calculated by the Etheruem network to ensure the car arrives at the destination successfully; PriorityFee is the tip you set to speed up the car's arrival. The more the tip you pay, the faster the transfer will go through. How to set gas fees imToken supports two ways of setting gas fees: Set priority and Customize Open imToken ETH wallet and tap on the token you want to make a transaction. We’ll take ETH as an example here. Set priority There are three transaction speeds: "Fastest" ,"Standard" and "Slow". Different speeds means different transaction confirmation times, the higher the gas fees you pay, the faster the transaction is confirmed. Please note that imToken's estimated range of gas fees are based on the current Ethereum network conditions, with a minimum value of (BaseFee + PriorityFee) * Gas and a maximum value of MaxFee * Gas. Customize For advanced users, who understand the mechanism of EIP-1559, you can manually set gas fees by modifying maxFee, maxPriorityFee, and Gas through the Customize feature. If you want to speed up the transaction, set a higher MaxPriorityFee and make sure MaxFee ≥ BaseFee + MaxPriorityFee. If you want to modify the Gas (which is usually not recommended, imToken will set a Gas based on the type of transaction you’re making to ensure its success), you can check the appropriate Gas of similar transactions via Etherscan, an Ethereum blockchain explorer. For example, if you want to sell an NFT on OpenSea, you can use Etherscan to find out the Gas Used by this type of transaction. As you can see from the chart below, the Gas Used for trading 1 NFT for some Ether is around 210,000, so the Gas you set must be greater than that. Note The gas fees are charged by the Ethereum network rather than imToken. The transaction is likely to fail if the Gas is too low. The gas fees you paid to Ethereum network will not be refunded even if the transaction fails. It is recommended to set a higher Gas  to avoid losing gas fees due to failed transactions.

We are happy to announce that imToken is now offering full support for Celo. Our non-custodial iOS and Android wallet lets users experience DApps on Celo and handle their assets with full control. Celo recently announced the ‘DeFi For The People’ initiative with industry heavyweights Aave, Curve, Sushi, PoolTogether, 0x, UMA, and others as a show of support for growing the ecosystem. The latest version of imToken lets users manage their asset balances,  monitor all tokens with prices, and send and receive them—just as they do from browser wallets. On top of that, users can view tokens prices and watch their portfolio grow. And to experience DApps like Ubeswap, Moola Market and PoolTogether, users can simply enter the long list of Celo DApps right in the wallet. To start using Celo and Celo dApps on imToken follow these steps Start using Celo on imToken To get started, download the latest imToken from Google Play, Apple App Store or directly at https://token.im/. Entering the wallet and switching to ‘Celo’ in the menu on the top opens the wallet as well as the DeFi portfolio. Clicking the ecosystem button on the main page, that brings the user to their favorite DApps on Celo chain.  Let’s take UbeSwap as example ~ After you enter the Celo ecosystem, click “Connect Wallet” to connect your wallet with DApp. Now you can start to do the action, like swap, adding liquidity, farm on DApp.  DeBank’s support:  In addition, Celo has also reached a partnership with DeBank, a leading DeFi project information collection platform. Users now can easily review Celo transaction and DeFi data information in real-time through the built-in DeBank. About Celo Celo is a mobile-first, open-source ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, Proof-of-Stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), stablecoins (cUSD, cEUR), and the Celo Alliance for Prosperity, with over 150 organizations around the world, including Deutsche Telekom, PayU, Opera, Andreessen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem. For more information, please visit: celo.org About imToken imToken is a decentralized digital wallet used to manage and safeguard a wide range of blockchain- and token-based assets, identities and data. Since its founding in 2016, it has helped its users transact and exchange billions of dollars in value across more than 150 countries around the world. imToken allows its users to manage assets on 20+ mainstream blockchains, as well as seamlessly connect with DApps via a decentralized applications browser. Download imToken: Google Play | Apple App Store Follow us: Twitter | Support | token.im

Available on Ethereum mainnet and xDAI, we now also support Swapr on the Arbitrum layer 2 We have been ramping up our support for Layer 2’s, with our native support for zkSync, Arbitrum and Optimism. We here to introduce one Arbitrum DApp to use in imToken: Swapr, the AMM fork of Uniswap governed by DXdao. The Swapr team has been supporting Ethereum mainnet for a while, but also pioneered the xDAI chain, a chain powered by MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin. On xDAI they gathered a total liquidity of $7 million, which is quite impressive for a project building on top of an Ethereum side chain. Recently, Swapr announced their token on Arbitrum, following a growth in assets over there as well: Up to $27.45 million, which should be account for around ~1% of Arbitrum’s current >$2.77 billion in total value locked (see https://defillama.com/protocol/swapr and https://l2beat.com/projects/arbitrum/). How to use Swapr on imToken To use Swapr in your imToken wallet, open the app, switch to Arbitrum (or xDAI or Ethereum mainnet), enter the DApp browser and search for Swapr. Download imToken to check out Swapr! Google Play | Apple App Store Follow us: Twitter | Support | token.im

Asia’s largest crypto wallet, imToken, and Singapore major payment institution FOMO Pay, jointly announce a strategic partnership   Singapore, November 8, 2021 - imToken, a world-class blockchain technology company in Singapore best known for its reliable decentralized crypto wallet, and FOMO Pay, a Singapore-headquartered major payment institution, which has been granted the first Digital Payment Token (DPT) Service licence by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), jointly announce a strategic partnership to integrate blockchain technology into payment solutions and other services for consumers and businesses.    Crypto innovation and blockchain technology are widely regarded as the next generation of digital finance. The MAS has emphasized its priority to be well positioned for the “economy of tokenization” that may come. It is necessary to overcome the gaps around compatibility, compliance and interoperability with traditional finance. The cooperation between imToken and FOMO Pay creates the exact synergy needed to help bridge the gaps and accelerate new financial paradigms in Singapore and beyond.   Bin He, Founder and CEO of imToken, said, We are thrilled to be partnering with FOMO Pay to provide next-gen payment and non-custodial wallet services under Singapore’s regulatory regime. Since our inception 5 years ago, imToken wallet has been trusted around the world and we continue to work hard to make blockchain technology more intuitive and accessible to everyone. With FOMO Pay’s digital payments vision and diverse merchant network along with imToken’s trusted brand and blockchain know-how, we are confident to integrate blockchain, digital assets and payments to improve financial efficiency and convenience to everyone’s daily life.   Zack Yang, Co-founder at FOMO Pay said, As the first DPT licensee in Singapore, we are glad to announce our partnership with imToken to empower our clients with next-gen payment and non-custodial wallet services. Since 2015, FOMO Pay has been consistently focusing on enabling digital payment to foster financial inclusion. With imToken’s world-standard technology, we are now able to further expand our product offering to blockchain space. We believe that this partnership will bridge the gap between the traditional financial system and Web 3.0 on financial services, and bring the benefits of payment technology innovation to society.   About imToken Singapore-based decentralized digital wallet imToken is used to manage and safeguard a wide range of blockchain and token-based assets, identities and data, to build the most intuitive and reliable digital wallet that gives equal access to everyone to the tokenized world. Since its founding in 2016, it has helped its users transact and exchange billions of dollars in value across more than 150 countries around the world. imToken allows its users to manage assets on 12 mainstream blockchains, as well as seamlessly connect with DApps via a decentralized applications browser. For more information, please visit official website: https://token.im About FOMO Pay FOMO Pay Pte Ltd (“FOMO Pay”) is a major payment institution (License No. PS20200145) in Singapore, licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to conduct Cross-border Money Transfer Service, Domestic Money Transfer Service, Digital Payment Token Service, and Merchant Acquisition Service. Founded in 2015, we have become a leading one-stop digital payment solution provider, enabling merchants and financial institutions with a comprehensive suite of payment methods in emerging markets across Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including the acceptance of card payment, QR payment and upcoming crypto currency which has surged as regulators push an agenda for cashless society and financial inclusion. The company has been trusted by over 10,000 clients. FOMO Pay is also one of the founding members of the Singapore Quick Response Code (SGQR) taskforce, contributing to creating the national standard to unify all e-wallets and moving towards promoting a cashless society in Singapore.

We are happy to announce that imToken is now offering full support for Avalanche via EVM integration. The non-custodial iOS and Android wallet let users experience DApps on Avalanche and handle their assets and DeFi portfolio in one place. The latest version of imToken lets users watch their asset balances, to watch all tokens with prices, to send and receive them just like they are used to from browser wallets. Moreover, Avalanche is launching its #RUSH campaign to empower more DApps in the ecosystem, giving an incentive of mining grant and airdrop program from the Avalanche Foundation that seeks to deploy decentralized finance applications on the Avalanche platform. Thus, users are able to view their DeFi protocol such as Aave and Curve since the program is planning to bring them into Avalanche. And to browse Avalanche DApps, users can simply search the long list of Avalanche DApps right in the wallet and start experiencing new DApp in the ecosystem. About Avalanche Avalanche is one of the fastest smart contracts platforms in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol. Avalanche is fast, low cost, and green. That’s why Avalanche promises smart contract-enabled applications to be able to outperform its competitors by deploying on Avalanche.  About imToken imToken is a decentralized digital wallet used to manage and safeguard a wide range of blockchain- and token-based assets, identities and data. Since its founding in 2016, it has helped its users transact and exchange billions of dollars in value across more than 150 countries around the world. imToken allows its users to manage assets on 20+ mainstream blockchains, as well as seamlessly connect with DApps via a decentralized applications browser.

You might have read our recent series on crypto scams - for example part 3 on fake apps.  Today our security team prepared a tutorial on how to spot fake websites and apps. Read on to learn more.   Stay safe in app stores When downloading an app like imToken, you might go to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. When visiting one of those two app store, simple tips can help you to stay safe: Search for the app name and be careful if you find multiple apps, because usually only one is real and fake apps try to look similar to real ones An app with many reviews and downloads is less likely to be fake, because fake apps will be taken offline before getting many downloads If you don’t download from the two big app stores, be careful, because smaller app stores are - generally speaking - less safe. Why? Because in our security team’s experience, they are less strict in taking down fake apps. If you don’t download from app stores at all, you might use an official website - such as imToken’s https://token.im/ . In this case, here are our recommendations:   Three steps to tell if a website is real and safe Make sure that the domain name you entered in the browser is: https://token.im/Note: Be sure to use HTTPS instead of HTTP. Make sure there is a security icon such as 🔒 or 🛡 in front of the domain name. Click the security icon, the website is real and safe if the pop-up shows “Connection is secure”. Otherwise, the website is fake and you can contact us via support@token.im. We’ll get you the help you need. Before downloading imToken, please make sure you have completed the three steps.    How can I verify the authenticity of an imToken APK file I downloaded? If you downloaded an imToken APK file through a third-party website or a friend, please check the authenticity of the APK by checking its hash before installing it.  The SHA-256 of a file is a kind of digital fingerprint which ensures that data is not modified or tampered with. The simplest way is to get the SHA256 through online tools. Move the APK file to desktop Open the website: https://emn178.github.io/online-tools/sha256_checksum.html Click “Drop File Here” and upload your APK file to get the result Compare the SHA256 of the APK file with that of different versions of imToken listed in the table below. If the result is identical to the SHA256 in the table, it can be said that your APK file is original and safe.If you encounter any problems during the process, please feel free to contact us via support@token.im   Mac users Move the APK file to desktop Open Terminal (default path: Launchpad - Other - Terminal) and enter cd desktop/ Enter shasum -a 256 + the name of the file, and press “Enter” to get the SHA256 of the file. Compare the SHA256 of the APK file with that of different versions of imToken listed in the table below. If the result is identical to the SHA256 in the table, it can be said that your APK file is original and safe.If you encounter any problems during the process, please feel free to contact us via support@token.im Windows users Move the APK file to desktop Open the command line tool(press Win and R, enter CMD, press Enter) and enter cd desktop/, press Enter Enter certUtil -hashfile + the name of the file + SHA256, and press “Enter” to get the SHA256 of the file. Compare the SHA256 of the APK file with that of different versions of imToken listed in the table below. If the result is identical to the SHA256 in the table, it can be said that your APK file is original and safe.If you encounter any problems during the process, please feel free to contact us via support@token.im APK from our official website Version SHA256 2.9.10.1539 3647beaed797f927fd030ef20ed6dc2c86b6591b4320166346caab0f8206f376 2.9.9.1514 6bd13c0ba674049aedba062a56cc72c8f4e4d578a10fb051d38c7d804c16d656 2.9.8.1471 bacb7cff0f38ef68803c1ce16c04b51a2f2b3066d12f59847f652cfef37f1b45 2.9.7.1413 cb11455f40758a0f8b4be9f1f06c290bf1f80b3129613b342925f6ff14da139f 2.9.6.1387 b98d21b5a5955983dff49b3cbc5d37a05450cf8201c554c7f7d51df4e8b3b9df 2.9.5.1370 55325d89fdbb29695a5964c006b78b74cb05bef5bf4dd2ad25f935328826fb13 2.9.4.1335 88392aa940b326b5e920b44d18152e26b84be635edba908e58a87ce7f0bca541 2.9.3.1293 9eda05d46d7e595c7ef6c67dd3ba3bf60e6cf6d37f1ee5459a6a32384c488f5c 2.9.2.1270 f1876987f35a2ecac7f579793df5823f28ff7f5c4e0835e30b0c35bdeed0f89a 2.9.1.1257 ea248e1503101a3f35bde8a5fc546e73c613dd08c0de367b5f4c1397cd8305a7 APK from Google Play  Version SHA256 2.9.10.1539 31c9b620f913d34f1b0a47fe0d7b1d7f91cbc20decd713329b0c2664888b7dcc 2.9.9.1514 03d4703f7f73cabc0d92b5a25629db404ddc32df5cdce29efd61627271e08e76 2.9.8.1471 7f34ef22ab16f3ff81100c05ff84014f6ccd88d33aa0e6cd3a00e8665a8f0207 2.9.7.1413 5193a936f17227d6d14531a69e95d889fdb8f130afca61f43f64719ce10b7986 2.9.6.1387 8a5ed55d6a9577e66889735e9bdd7f3aef6a1a2f130b72ac004f50c1813712a5