Wrapped FIO wallet
The most secure hardware wallet for your Wrapped FIO
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How to secure your Wrapped FIO with Tangem?
When you buy or hold Wrapped FIO in Tangem, it secures your private keys in many ways:
- With Tangem's seedless setup and multi-card backup, your Wrapped FIO stays in your hands only.
- IP69K water/dust protection keeps the cards safe from heat, cold, shocks, and X-rays.
- Access code + biometric lock inside Tangem Mobile prevent unauthorized use.
- Private keys are generated and stored inside the EAL6+ secure element — never leaving the card.
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What is Wrapped FIO (WFIO)?
FIO Protocol built its own chain around one idea: replacing long wallet addresses with a readable handle in the form username@domain, so that a payment can be requested and sent the way an email is. Native FIO is the coin of that chain - it pays the fees for registering and renewing handles, for sending requests, and it carries voting weight in the chain's delegated proof of stake.
WFIO is that coin represented on Ethereum, issued one for one against native FIO locked on the FIO side and burned again when someone unwraps. What a holder should understand is what the wrapped form does not do. Handle registration, payment requests and chain governance all happen on FIO Chain and require the native coin; an ERC-20 balance sitting in an Ethereum wallet takes no part in any of it. WFIO is there so the value can travel on Ethereum rails. If you want the protocol's actual functions, the balance has to be unwrapped first.
Holding it day to day
Everything about moving WFIO is Ethereum's business: transfers are ERC-20 transfers, and every one of them costs ETH, including the transaction that starts an unwrap. In Tangem the ETH for that fee lives in the same wallet as the token, and each signature is a tap of the card against the phone - no cable, no charging, no separate device to keep alive. That is a practical fit for a token whose every action begins with an Ethereum fee.
Supported networks in Tangem (1): Ethereum.
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See all supported cryptosWrapped FIO FAQ
- A top wallet for WFIO should strike a balance between safety and usability. Tangem provides this by securing keys offline while allowing quick access through your phone.
- Yes, software wallets are generally free. Hardware wallets, such as Tangem Wallet, come with a purchase because they include secure physical components.
- A strong Wrapped FIO wallet uses dedicated hardware to safeguard private keys. Tangem uses a specialized security chip, similar to those found in banking cards and passports, which keeps keys isolated and reduces the risk of unauthorized access or data compromise.
- It’s a digital or hardware device that holds the private keys needed to access and manage your Wrapped FIO. Without it, you cannot control your funds.
- No. Handle registration and renewal are paid in native FIO on FIO Chain. WFIO is the Ethereum representation and has to be unwrapped into native FIO before it can pay those fees.
- Native FIO locked on the FIO Chain side, at one to one. Wrapping locks the native coin and issues the ERC-20; unwrapping burns the ERC-20 and releases the original.
- ETH. WFIO is an ordinary ERC-20 token on Ethereum, so gas comes out of your ETH balance, not out of the token.
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