Why You Should Create a New Email for Your Wallet Right Now (After Google’s Decision)
Google’s Gmail shifts in 2026 make email a higher‑value target. Create a fresh, hardened email for wallet recovery now—step‑by‑step guide and checklist inside.
Stop. Before you sign another transaction: create a new email for your wallet now
Short version: Google’s late‑2025/early‑2026 Gmail changes — including new ways to change primary addresses and deeper “personalized AI” access to Gmail data — increase the risk surface around any account that uses Gmail for wallet recovery. For both players and devs, the safest, lowest‑friction move today is to create a fresh, hardened email used only for wallet recovery and critical crypto accounts.
Why this matters to gamers and NFT projects — fast
If your wallet's recovery or exchange account is tied to a Gmail address that you use for socials, newsletters, and logins, you’re centralizing too much power in one account. That one account can become the single point of failure for wallet recovery, account takeover, and phishing.
Recent moves by Google — rolling out the ability to change primary @gmail.com addresses for some users and integrating
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