Security and risks
OrdiFi is an experimental Bitcoin project. Using it involves technical, financial and smart-contract risk. This page outlines the most important points so that users can make informed decisions.
General on-chain risks
- All transactions on Bitcoin are permanent and cannot be reversed.
- Fees can change quickly; interacting with ordinals may become more expensive than expected.
- Wallet software, browsers and nodes can have bugs or be misconfigured.
Soft cases
Soft cases do not take custody of the underlying ordinal. They only read references and display whether the content appears in the connected wallet. The main risk is incorrect display or configuration, not loss of the ordinal itself.
Hard cases and vaults
Hard cases and vault products can hold assets directly. This creates custody risk: if a vault contract, script or operational setup fails, the locked assets may be lost and there may be no way to recover them.
For that reason hard cases and vaults should only be used with amounts a user can afford to lose and, ideally, only after they understand the underlying mechanisms.
Best practices
- Use separate wallets for art, vaults and day-to-day funds.
- Test new flows with very small amounts first.
- Keep backups of wallet seeds in secure offline locations.
- Be cautious with links, signatures and any request that feels unusual.
