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# What is a crypto wallet?

In short, a crypto wallet is a piece of software for storing and managing your crypto assets and tokens, as well as a tool for interacting with other blockchain applications. 

Crypto wallets allow you to truly own the crypto assets, as long as you can control the private key, you can control everything in the crypto wallet.