VigiBank: a view of your capital, not a bank
You will know what VigiBank shows you, where the numbers come from, and why the name is the most dangerous thing about it.
What it is
A reading of what an address actually holds.
VigiBank asks the chain what a given address controls — native VIGI and the on-chain assets recognised by the protocol — and presents it as a portfolio. Every figure comes from a live chain read, not from a database this project keeps, which is why the page is empty for an address that holds nothing.
What it is not
Not a bank. No deposits, no custody, no interest.
Nothing is deposited anywhere. There is no account, no balance held by anyone on your behalf, and no yield of any kind — the keys stay with you, exactly as in the wallet lesson. The name describes the shape of the view, and this project states the boundary on the page itself because a name that suggests deposits is a name that has to be corrected in public.
Where external assets sit
Anything not native arrives through an authorised provider.
Assets that originate outside this chain reach it only through custody arrangements that are named and audited, and wrapped assets stay switched off by default until that custody has been reviewed. If a page ever offers you an external asset without naming who holds the reserve, that is the moment to stop reading and start asking.
How to read it
Check the address, then check it somewhere else.
The view is only as trustworthy as the node answering it. Read the same address in the explorer, or against your own node, and confirm the figures match. This is the habit that makes every other claim on this site checkable, and it costs about ten seconds.
In short
- Every figure is a live read of the chain for one address, not a stored balance.
- There is no deposit, no custody and no yield: the keys never leave you.
- External assets arrive only through named custody, and wrapped assets are off by default.
- Confirm the same address against a second source before you trust the numbers.