iMe and MetaMask wallets privacyiMe and Metamask are non-custodial crypto wallets, which means that only the Seed phrase owner has access to their funds. But wallets can store not only funds, but also user data information, which somehow can be used by third parties which are involved in the wallet’s maintenance and infrastructure solutions.
Recently, ConsenSys company announced that it will collect certain users’ IP addresses and financial information from MetaMask customers who use Infura as their RPC provider. In simple terms, Infura is a cluster of nodes that connects the user interface to an external smart contract in the blockchain, such as Ethereum. The Infura provider can handle transaction signing as well as connecting to the Ethereum network without the need to synchronize the node.
Of course, Metamask is convenient to use Infura to avoid raising its own nodes and not wasting resources on it, but this leads to a loss of wallet independence, which users may suffer from.
iMe does not use the Infura service, moreover, all user requests for operation related to transfers, purchases, swaps etc. are received by our server and then forwarded directly to the DEX request executor, for example to Ethereum, BNB Chain, Uniswap , PancakeSwap etc. Thus, even if one of our partners or third-party services want to collect user data, they simply cannot do this physically and get, for example, the same IP address of the user, because our server acts as a intermediary and a guarantor of data storage.
The iMe server part has no functionality to track and save users’ IP addresses, we do not see any sense and necessity in it.
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