Locus Chain wallet

What is Locus Chain (LOCUS)?

Two things carry the name LOCUS, and only one of them can sit in a wallet today. Locus Chain is a project building its own layer 1 network, aimed at high throughput without handing consensus to a small set of operators. The token you can actually hold is the ERC-20 that the Locus Chain Foundation issued on Ethereum ahead of that network, and it behaves exactly like any other Ethereum token: it lives at your normal Ethereum address, it needs ETH in the same wallet to move, and there is no separate account to open or activate for it.

The part worth planning for is the handover. Tokens sitting on Ethereum cannot be spent on the Locus Chain network directly, so the design has always called for a one-to-one exchange of the ERC-20 for native coins once that chain is running. A holder's job in the meantime is unremarkable: keep the ERC-20 somewhere you will still control when the swap window matters, and keep enough ETH beside it to sign the transaction when the time comes.

Supported networks in Tangem (1): Ethereum.

That waiting period is where a card earns its place. The private key is created inside the card's secure element and never leaves it, so the Ethereum address holding your LOCUS stays the same no matter how long the pre-mainnet phase runs, and a second identical card covers you if the first is lost. Holding a token whose future depends on a swap you have not done yet is a good argument for storage that does not depend on you remembering anything.