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Wallet verification guide

Due to the introduction of the fifth anti-money laundering directive, which came into effect in the Netherlands on May 21, 2020, Bitvavo has come under the supervision of De Nederlandsche Bank. According to De Nederlandsche Bank, this supervision means that digital currencies may only be sent to verified wallet addresses.

New! If you have verified the same ERC-20 address for another asset, the address will be automatically verified once you add it to your address book.

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Wallet Verification - step by step

After you have added an external wallet address to your address book, you need to have it verified which is possible as follows:

For security reasons, a selfie may be requested during wallet verification. Based on risk factors, it is decided to request a selfie for additional verification. These risk factors decrease the more secure the account is, for example with two-factor authentication (2FA).
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Please make sure that the following points are clearly visible in the photo you provide:

  • Your face (for verification of identity);
  • Valid identity document;
  • A piece of paper with today's date handwritten on it.

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You can view the image and if everything is clearly visible you can click Continue.
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  • Take a screen recording of the platform or external wallet address you want to send your digital currency to and make sure the wallet address you want to add is visible.

Does your Google Chrome have no permission to add Screenrecording? Read this. 



  1. Start the screen recording and display the desired external wallet address. The following screens should be visible:
If you work on two screens, the window where Bitvavo is open may not be visible in the screen you are recording. We would like to ask you to start the recording in the window where you have Bitvavo open, and then navigate to your external wallet in the same screen.

    1. The Bitvavo environment with the unique code;
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    2. The receiving party's wallet software and full receiving address;

    3. The Bitvavo environment where the screen recording is stopped.



  2. Share the screen recording and confirm adding the external wallet address.
    Fill in the password of your Bitvavo-account and 2FA code (if enabled) and press Continue.
    An email will now be sent.



  3. Confirm the email sent to your email account to complete the wallet verification.
    Please Note: the wallet verification is only complete after the email has been confirmed.



Your screen recording will then be assessed by our compliance team, the external wallet address will in principle be added to your address book and after which withdrawals to this external wallet address will be possible.

Mobile wallet

In principle, the wallet verification should be done on your desktop. This might be hard if you would like to add a mobile-only wallet address to your address book. In that case:
  1. Make a print screen or photo of the specific wallet + full address;
  2. E-mail the print screen to yourself with the e-mail address linked to your Bitvavo account;
  3. Show this during the screen recording.
For example: Trust Wallet is a mobile wallet only ✅
For example: Binance app (browser version is also available) ❌ 

We understand better than anyone that you value your privacy and we do everything we can to guarantee the information you provide as well as possible.
More information about how Bitvavo handles the information you provide and how Bitvavo guarantees the security of your information can be found here.

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