🔐 ZenGo review: security, features and score
79/100SCORE · BTrustedMPC, key split into shares
Grade B, very good
Someone who will absolutely lose a seed phrase and wants no seed phrase to lose.
The facts
- DEVELOPER
- ZenGo
- LAUNCHED
- 2018
- TYPE
- MPC, mobile
- CUSTODY MODEL
- MPC, key split into shares
- KEY MODEL
- MPC. The key is split into two shares, one on your device and one on ZenGo servers, and a full key never exists anywhere.
- CHAINS
- Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and 70 plus
- PLATFORMS
- iOS, Android
- OPEN SOURCE
- Partial
- AUDITS
- Audited, with a published bug bounty
- HARDWARE SUPPORT
- None
- SWAP COST
- Routing fee, and the spread is wider than a DEX.
What it can do
How the score breaks down
Each dimension is explained on the methodology page.
Where it is strong and where it is not
✓ Strengths
- No seed phrase exists, so it cannot be phished or lost
- Face recognition recovery
- Very easy for a complete beginner
- Long record with no reported breach
✗ Weaknesses
- You depend on ZenGo servers holding the second share
- Not fully open source
- Swap spreads are wide
Incident history
No security breach or significant incident on record.
Export and store the recovery file. It is what lets you recover if ZenGo ever disappears, and it is the one thing people skip.
Reputation and reviews
A reputation score out of 100, kept separate from the feature score above. It reflects what users actually report over time rather than a star rating scraped on one day.
REPUTATION
78/100
Claims never to have been hacked, and there is no public evidence to the contrary. The design removes seed phrase loss entirely, at the cost of depending on ZenGo continuing to exist, which they address with a recovery file.
Check current reviews yourself
Star ratings change constantly, so we link to the sources rather than printing a number that is out of date the day after it is written.
If something goes wrong
COMMON FIXES
Transaction stuck pendingYour transaction has sat as Pending for minutes or hours and nothing is moving.Transaction failed but the gas was still takenThe transaction reverted, you got nothing, and the fee left your wallet anyway.Token is not showing in my walletThe block explorer shows the tokens arrived, but the wallet shows nothing.I sent tokens to the wrong networkYou withdrew to your address but picked the wrong chain, and the balance is not where you expected.
RISK WARNING
Crypto assets are highly volatile and largely unregulated. You can lose everything you put in.
Nothing on this page is financial, investment or tax advice, and nothing here is a recommendation
to buy or sell any asset. Do your own research and never commit money you cannot afford to lose.