Phantom's withdrawal of support reflects not the risk to user assets, but the selective focus of wallet products in a multi-chain era. Public information shows that Phantom operates in a non-custodial manner, meaning users always retain control over their assets, which implies that the wallet's withdrawal of support will only change the access path, not the on-chain ownership.

From a capital perspective, such actions typically indicate that the wallet aims to concentrate resources on chain ecosystems with more certain growth, rather than continuing to maintain marginally profitable long-tail networks. Phantom had previously created access and guidance pages specifically for Monad, indicating that the current withdrawal is more of a product priority adjustment rather than a technical incompatibility.

Historically, multi-chain wallet strategies involve wallet companies initially casting a wide net to acquire users, then gradually narrowing the support range to concentrate operational, risk control, and product iteration resources on on-chain assets that can truly generate transactions, swaps, and activity. While Monad users can still migrate to compatible wallets using their mnemonic phrases, the narrowing of entry points will put pressure on new traffic and retention for the network.

This essentially represents a restructuring of the industry chain: wallets will no longer indiscriminately serve all chains, but will reallocate attention and technical resources, determining who can remain at the mainstream entry point and thus more easily gain user traffic and transaction depth.

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Wallets do not custody assets, but will custody entry points.
Once support shrinks, traffic will be redistributed.
In the multi-chain era, the truly scarce resource is the main entry point.