ValiDAO wallet

What is ValiDAO (VDO)?

ValiDAO sits on the infrastructure side of crypto rather than the application side: it runs validators and node services that other networks and protocols depend on. VDO is the token attached to that operation, which puts it in the category of holdings people acquire once and then leave alone for a long stretch - infrastructure tokens are not spending money and rarely see weekly transfers.

What matters to you as a holder is that VDO exists on two EVM chains. On Ethereum it is a standard ERC-20 with ETH covering gas. On HyperEVM the same token standard applies but the fee coin is different, so a small balance of that chain's native coin has to be sitting at the address before anything can move. Your address string is the same on both, and that sameness is exactly what trips people up: the balance is not, and a transfer only exists on the chain it was signed for.

Holding it over a long horizon

A token you touch once a year is a key-management problem more than a transaction problem. Tangem generates that key inside the card's secure element and it never comes out, and the straightforward backup is a second identical card kept somewhere else, with a seed phrase available if you specifically want one. Storing VDO this way means the hard part - still having access in two years - is handled by an object rather than a piece of paper you have to find again.

Supported networks in Tangem (2): Ethereum, HyperEVM.