Wallet hygiene for points farming: a setup that contains blast radius

Points farming pushes you into the highest-risk DeFi behavior: connecting wallets to unfamiliar sites, signing many transactions, bridging, and granting approvals. The safest response is not “be fearless.” It’s “contain blast radius.”

This post gives you a wallet setup you can implement quickly and a few habits that prevent most avoidable drains.

If you want sourced starting points for campaigns, use the directory: points directory.

Quick take

• Keep a vault wallet that never touches quests.
• Use a dedicated farming wallet with limited balances.
• Bookmark official domains; stop searching for them.
• Treat unlimited approvals as high-trust mode.
• Record approvals and exit paths for every position.

Nothing here is financial advice. This is operational safety.

The goal: one mistake should not be fatal

Most people don’t lose money because they lacked “alpha.” They lose money because they made one rushed click and that click had access to too much.

Wallet hygiene is about designing for mistakes:

• you will misclick sometimes
• you will get tired sometimes
• you will sign something you didn’t fully parse sometimes

You want those mistakes to cost you a lesson, not your net worth.

The four-wallet model (simple and effective)

This model is enough for most people as of 2025-12-30.

If you only adopt two of these, adopt vault + farming. That single change prevents the worst outcomes.

Funding hygiene: avoid “linking” risk across wallets

Segmentation works best when you don’t constantly shuttle funds directly from your vault into high-risk contexts.

Practical habits:

• Fund the farming wallet with an amount you can afford to lose; keep it small by default.
• Don’t connect your vault wallet to new apps “to check”; treat that as a rule.
• When you rotate wallets, update bookmarks and notes so you don’t fall back to searching.

If you’re tracking multiple positions, the recordkeeping template makes this easier: questing recordkeeping.

Link hygiene: the easiest win

The highest impact security habit is boring:

Bookmark official domains and stop searching for them.

Search results can be poisoned, ads can be malicious, and lookalike domains are common during hype cycles.

Use sourced hub pages to start:

• Protocols
• Networks
• Categories

And if you want a full verification workflow, read: how to verify a points program is real.

Approval hygiene: treat permissions like loaded weapons

Approvals aren’t a formality. They’re permission that can persist.

Safer habits:

• Avoid unlimited approvals on new or unclear contracts.
• Review and revoke approvals after quests.
• Prefer smaller approvals in high-risk wallets.

Deep dive: token approvals and Permit2.

Operational hygiene: reduce the chance you sign the wrong thing

These small habits matter:

• Use a separate browser profile for farming sites.
• Keep a notes file with your current positions and exit steps.
• Don’t do quests when you’re tired or distracted.
• If a site pushes urgency, treat it as suspicious.

If you want a template for notes, use: questing recordkeeping.

A simple “approval review” routine

Approvals aren’t scary when they’re intentional and reviewed.

Once per week:

• Check recent approvals for your farming wallet.
• Revoke approvals you no longer need.
• If you can’t explain why an approval exists, treat it as suspicious and investigate.

If you use multiple devices, keep the same bookmarked source links across them. Most phishing happens when you “quick check” something from a fresh device.

Bridging and LPing: keep risk-sized balances

Points quests often require bridging and LPing. Both increase operational and market risk.

Before bridging, compare routes: bridge fee comparison.

Before LPing, sanity-check downside: impermanent loss calculator.

If you can’t tolerate the downside, reduce exposure or skip it. Points are not a shield.

FAQ

Do I need multiple wallets to farm points?

You don’t “need” them, but segmentation is one of the simplest ways to reduce catastrophic losses. One wallet is one blast radius.

Should I use a hardware wallet for farming?

A hardware wallet can reduce some risks, but it doesn’t fix phishing or bad approvals. The most important factor is link and approval hygiene.

Is a new wallet always safer?

A new wallet can be cleaner, but safety comes from behavior: sourced links, careful signing, and limited balances.

What’s the #1 habit if I do nothing else?

Vault wallet stays isolated. Everything else can be rebuilt.

Next step

• Browse sourced campaigns: points directory
• Review the safety baseline: airdrop farming checklist
• Learn approvals: token approvals and Permit2

Sources and further reading

• ERC-20 token standard (allowances): https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-20
• EIP-712 typed structured data signing: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-712