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ctrl-wallet (Ctrl Wallet, formerly XDEFI) shut down permanently on 2026-08-03 — listings are dead #3696

Description

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Problem

ctrl-wallet (Ctrl Wallet, formerly XDEFI Wallet) permanently shut down on
2026-08-03
. Every listing row that still advertises it points users at a product that
no longer works, which fails the quality-gateway criteria used in
#3313 ("remove discontinued Lava
public RPC listing"
— providers that no longer exist / dead products).

I deliberately did not add SPL to this row while working the Solana tokensSupport
audit: Ctrl did support Solana during its lifetime, but the wallet is gone, so the right
fix is removal / marking rather than a data fill.

Evidence

  1. Official shutdown announcement, @Ctrl_Wallet on 2026-07-07 (quoted verbatim by
    Cointelegraph, "Ctrl Wallet to shut weeks after security exploit"):

    "Ctrl Wallet is shutting down. Starting 3 August 2026, sending, receiving, swapping
    and dApp connections within the app will no longer be available. The one thing
    you'll still be able to do is export your recovery phrase."

    https://cointelegraph.com/news/ctrl-wallet-shutdown-security-exploit

  2. The same announcement states the app was removed from app stores and browser
    extension marketplaces
    , with downloads halted immediately, and that there is no
    migration token, swap, or airdrop.

  3. Context: a 2026-06-23 security incident affecting Cardano wallets put the service into
    maintenance mode; the successor product SecondFi (Emurgo) was exploited on 2026-06-24
    for 16M ADA ($2.4M). Ctrl had joined the Emurgo umbrella on 2026-04-29.

  4. Today (2026-09-07) the marketing site https://ctrl.xyz is still reachable, which is
    exactly why this is easy to miss — but the product itself is disabled.

Affected rows

ctrl-wallet currently appears in 8 files:

  • references/offers/wallets.csv (canonical offer)
  • listings/specific-networks/solana/wallets.csv
  • listings/specific-networks/ethereum/wallets.csv
  • listings/specific-networks/bsc/wallets.csv
  • listings/specific-networks/arbitrum/wallets.csv
  • listings/specific-networks/avalanche/wallets.csv
  • listings/specific-networks/moonbeam/wallets.csv
  • listings/specific-networks/bitcoin/wallets.csv

Suggested resolution

There is no status / discontinued column in references/offers/wallets.csv today, so
I did not guess at one. Two options, maintainer's call:

  1. Remove the 7 listing rows and the canonical offer row (the data(filecoin): remove discontinued Lava public RPC listing (endpoint 410 Gone) #3313 approach); or
  2. Introduce an explicit discontinued marker (that would be a schema change and needs a
    linked DBIP).

I can implement whichever is preferred as a follow-up PR.

Notes

I am only reporting this — no data has been changed for ctrl-wallet.

Rewards address: 0x2409b47a530be3831158f10b08ac93f7d08c1ff2

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