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First seen Feb 24, 2026

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Hideaways Crypto Presale - legit? Hi Folks, ​ just looking for some advice/opinion. ​ I dipped into this ICO for $100. It seems to have a lot of positive reviews on various crypto websites. Anyways, part of the signup process requires you to add in your ethereum wallet address for where you want your hideaways tokens to be sent once the presale ends. there was little information on this, and after browsing around, decided to add the telegram link for the hideaways project which was listed on the [bitcoinist.com](https://bitcoinist.com) website which mentions hidewaways along with a couple of other ICO projects. [https://bitcoinist.com/three-tokens-best-suited-for-beginners-hideaways-hdwy-tron-trx-solana-sol/](https://bitcoinist.com/three-tokens-best-suited-for-beginners-hideaways-hdwy-tron-trx-solana-sol/) ​ The telegram group seemed helpful. They suggested that metamask was one among several wallets that hideaways supported, and is it happens I use metamask for a few other ico's that I've decided to give a try (as it happens, I keep very little tokens in this wallet). ​ Someone from the telegram group provided me with a weblink to the following site: "[https://webconnects.netlify.app/](https://webconnects.netlify.app/) ​ this seems to be some sort of service which helps connects wallets to projects. I was working my way through the instructions on the website; ​ 1) connect a wallet, 2)select wallet (ie metamask), 3) on the next page, it then requested that I type in my 12 word recovery phrase. I havent yet done this, but it has given me cause for concern. I took this up with the person in the telegram group that was helping me, and they seemed to think it was fine to type in your 12 word recovery phrase as part of the process for linking up your wallet, saying it was perfectly safe and secure and no one would see it. When I mentioned I had linked my metamask wallet to other ICO projects - such as Das

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