Nexus deposit addresses rotate more often now

over the past quarter · money

The deposit address the wallet page hands you rotates on a shorter timer than it used to.

A deposit address is a string. It sits at the top of the wallet page and it is the string you paste into the sending wallet you are using to fund the market balance. That string used to change slowly. It changes more often now, and readers who screenshotted it once and reused it for every top-up are landing on an address that no longer belongs to their profile.

How it read before

Under the old rotation, the address on your wallet page stayed the same for a long window. You could paste it into your sending wallet, save it as a labelled contact, and reach for the same contact every time you wanted to add funds. Because the address rarely changed, the copy-paste habit was efficient and the mistakes it produced were rare.

The catch was on the chain side. A single address that keeps receiving deposits is a heat lamp for anyone doing chain analysis. Reuse gives them a target. Reuse also lets the market inadvertently link separate deposits to the same buyer if the address is left in place across sessions and browsers.

How it reads now

The address on the wallet page cycles more often. When it cycles, the wallet page shows a new string and quietly retires the old one. The old address usually still credits an incoming deposit for a while, so a top-up in flight will land. New top-ups should use the new one. The wallet page does not shout about the change; the string is just different when you look.

The pay screen for an order is a slightly different animal. That address is order-scoped and expires with the order. Do not treat the pay-screen address and the wallet-page address as the same object. They serve different purposes.

Why this probably shifted

The most likely reading is a privacy improvement. Rotating addresses breaks the clustering that address reuse invites. The operators lose nothing by rotating, and buyers gain a little on-chain distance between their top-ups.

A secondary reading is stale-clipboard defence. A string that has been in your clipboard buffer for weeks is a string that can be swapped by a clipboard-hijacking script without you noticing. A fresh string on every top-up gives the address on the wallet page a chance to disagree with the string in your clipboard, which is the disagreement you want to catch. The same instinct that makes readers panic at a fresh onion can serve them well at the wallet page: notice the change, then confirm it is real.

What to change on your side

Fetch the address fresh each time you want to top up. Do not rely on the screenshot on your desktop, the labelled contact in your sending wallet, or the note on the back of a paper. The correct address is the one currently on the wallet page. Everything else is a snapshot that might be stale.

Open the wallet page and read the address at the top before you send anything.
Do not paste from clipboard without checking a handful of characters at each end against what the wallet page shows.
If you are on a browser that likes to add a trailing newline to what you copy, strip it before pasting into the sending wallet.
Do not confuse the wallet-page address with the pay-screen address for an order. They are different strings with different lifetimes.

If you find yourself trying to double-check the address by comparing to a memory of what it used to be, stop. There is no useful signal in that comparison. The current addresses page is where you verify the site itself, not where you verify a wallet string.

What this entry is not claiming

This entry is not claiming the old address stops crediting the instant a new one appears; it usually keeps working for a stretch. It is not claiming a rotation frequency in specific units. It is claiming that the rotation cadence has shortened enough to break the "copy it once and reuse it forever" habit, and that the fix is a quick refresh of the wallet page before every top-up.