Watch-only wallet tracking

Monitoring public addresses without ever being able to move funds.

What is watch-only tracking?

On a public blockchain, the balances attached to a public address can be viewed by anyone. Watch-only (read-only) tracking means monitoring those addresses to know their holdings, without ever being able to move the funds.

Key takeaway

A public address lets you see, never spend. The funds stay under your sole control.

What is never asked

A tracking service never needs your recovery phrase (seed), your private key, a keystore file or a signature. PortefeuilleZen refuses this information and offers no transaction, no transfer and no approval.

Attention

Anyone who asks for your recovery phrase can empty your wallet. No legitimate service asks for it. See the AMF warnings cited at the bottom of this guide.

What a balance shows (and does not show)

A balance read on the blockchain is an observed balance: it tells how much is held, not at what price it was acquired. Cost basis and performance therefore remain unknown until you enter them. Some tokens have no reliable market price; unsolicited ("spam") tokens can also appear and are not counted in your wealth.

In PortefeuilleZen

A personal wallet groups one or more public addresses tracked on the supported networks. A data-provider outage is never shown as a zero balance: the last known value is kept and flagged as outdated. For the difference with an account on an exchange, see personal wallet or platform.