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Safety

• Private keys: generated and stored encrypted in the Hounds signing service; the web server never sees them in plain text. Partners, referrers and Hounds will never ask for your private key, seed phrase, passwords or verification codes. Partners and referrers will never ask you to send them funds or pay on your behalf. Hounds is free to use and charges no membership fee; we will never ask you to send funds or "pay to activate" in a private message or group chat. Never confirm a login link, a link request or a code that someone else sent you. Only use hounds.fun, and check the address bar.
• Protection on money movements: placing orders needs no password; web withdrawals and key exports need a trading password + a 2FA code. New recipient addresses can be used right away (24 hours later on accounts under 24 hours old or flagged by our security checks). After security changes such as changing the login password (including a reset by email), adding a login email, turning off two-step verification, or changing or resetting the trading password, withdrawals and key exports are paused for 24 hours (the Wallet page shows "Withdrawals paused" and the time left).
• No-password money paths only pay out to wallets generated on Hounds: bridging, transfers and rebate withdrawals only go into your own Hounds wallets; imported wallets count as external addresses, so to send to one, use Withdraw.
• New devices: a device logged in for less than 24 hours can only buy tokens pushed in the last 24 hours, and raising slippage or turning anti-MEV off only takes effect after 24 hours (2.8).
• One-click freeze: after you turn two-step verification on or off, set / change / reset the trading password, register a withdrawal address, start a withdrawal or export a key, besides the in-app notification we also send a security email to your verified email with a freeze link (valid for 7 days, works once). If it was not you, open the link → Freeze account. Freezing right away: signs out every device logged in to this account; blocks withdrawals and key export for 24 hours; disables the login password (set a new one later with "Forgot password" for this email); removes two-step verification turned on after this change; and rolls back changes left by new devices. Wallets and positions are not touched, and buying and selling keep working. If you did not freeze the account yourself, someone can read your email: change your email password first.
• Devices: Account → Security → Devices lists every logged-in device (first login, last activity); you can Sign out one or Sign out all.
• Security events: the same page lists security events from the last 30 days.
• Notifications: the bell in the top bar (Notifications) gathers four kinds: Trades, Funds, Security and System; anything from the last 30 days can be read back. Under Account → Notifications you can turn off in-app notifications for trades / funds / system (a category you turn off stays out of the bell and the unread count, but its notifications are still kept); security notifications are always on and cannot be turned off.
• Anti-MEV (on by default): sends orders through a protected route to reduce front-running and sandwiching. Turning it off may land faster, but you may get sandwiched.
• Login protection: 5 wrong passwords in a row for the same email from the same network lock it temporarily (15 minutes first, doubling after each further miss).
• Platform protection: when something is abnormal, the platform may pause transfers out, and the top of the page shows "Hounds has temporarily paused fund transfers out (withdrawals, private key export, cross-chain, rebate withdrawals). Your tokens and balances are safe and you can continue once it resumes. Buying, selling and cancelling work as usual." When trading volume across the platform is abnormal, buying and selling pause for about 15 minutes ("Buying is paused platform-wide. Try later; selling still works." is a separate case that pauses buying only).
• Region: Hounds does not serve users in mainland China or in sanctioned regions; visiting from mainland China shows "Service not available in your region".
• Official channels only: the website is only hounds.fun; the bot is @Houndsbot; X is @houndsmeme; the community is @Houndsfun. Watch out for fake websites, fake "desktop apps" and pinned ads.