SECURITY & CUSTODY
Trade Non-Custodially. Trade Carefully.
Self-custody, seed phrase export, MEV protection modes, the phishing sites currently targeting Axiom users, and an honest account of the 2026 insider-access incident.
Axiom Is Non-Custodial
Axiom never holds your funds or keys. Wallet infrastructure runs on Turnkey's air-gapped AWS Nitro Enclaves, and every account gets a 12-word seed phrase, retrievable any time from Settings, that you can export into Phantom, Rabby, or Solflare. Axiom's own docs recommend doing this so you keep access to your funds "under any circumstances" — including the August 2025 outage that briefly left users unable to sell through the app at all. Read is Axiom Trade safe for the full picture.
MEV Protection
Axiom offers three MEV modes on every buy — Off, Reduced (routes through Jito), and Secure (whitelisted validators only, slower). An October 2025 study found Axiom users made up roughly 70% of Solana sandwich-attack victims over the prior year, likely a mix of the platform's sheer volume and traders leaving protection off for speed. Setting MEV protection to Secure is the single highest-leverage setting change on the platform.
The February 2026 Incident
In February 2026, investigator ZachXBT published evidence that an Axiom employee abused an internal support dashboard to look up users' wallets. Axiom confirmed the abuse, said it removed access to the tools involved, and said it would investigate further. No user funds or private keys were compromised — this was a privacy and trust failure, not a security breach. Read the full timeline in what actually happened.
Security & Custody
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