Why Aureus has no connect button

Almost every crypto app opens with “Connect wallet”. You click, your wallet pops up, you approve, and the app can see what you hold.

Aureus doesn't do that. Not out of caution — it's a contradiction we didn't want to live with.

We teach you not to approve prompts you didn't go looking for. So we can't be the thing raising one. Hesitating at an unexpected approval window is the most useful habit in crypto, and any product that trains you out of it has taken something from you.

There's a simpler answer too. Connecting proves you own an address, and nothing here needs that proof. Reading is open to everyone, so we ask for no permission — which means you can paste an address you've only read about, on your first day, when you own nothing yet.

What it costs you: we can never say “your wallet”. We say “this address”, and we mean it.

And the part that isn't flattering to us. When you paste an address, we do send it somewhere — to a public block explorer, which is where the balance comes from. Your address travels in that request and lands in their logs.

We store nothing. No database row, no cache, not even a scrambled copy. But we can't un-send it, so we tell you where it went. The screen that shows you a balance shows you that too.