Your keys. Your coins.

Non-custodial betting means you hold the keys to your own money, not the platform. Your wallet is generated and encrypted on your own device, and every bet and transfer is signed there. The platform can show you markets and prepare an order — but it can never move your funds, because it never holds the key that would let it.

The default almost everywhere: custody

On a normal betting site or exchange, you deposit money and the platform holds it. Your "balance" is really a promise on their ledger. That's convenient — until it isn't. A custodial holder can freeze your account, can become insolvent while holding your funds, and is a single target that can be breached for everyone's money at once. Even the honest ones ask you to trust a promise you can't inspect.

Non-custodial flips the trust

Self-custody removes the promise. The private key that authorizes spending lives on your device, encrypted with a secret only you know. When you place a bet, the transaction is signed locally and only the signed result is broadcast. The platform coordinates; it never possesses the ability to spend.

With amparo specifically: your wallet is generated and encrypted in your browser, and your password never reaches the servers. What's stored server-side is ciphertext no one can decrypt — not amparo, and not anyone who breaches amparo. If the company vanished tomorrow, your funds would still be yours, on-chain, reachable with your key.

Custodial: "trust us with your money." Non-custodial: "you never had to."

What it asks of you in return

Self-custody isn't free of responsibility — it moves the responsibility to you. No one can reset a password they never had, and no one can recover a wallet from ciphertext they can't read. So the practical questions become: how do you unlock day to day, and how do you avoid locking yourself out?

amparo answers that with several ways to unlock one wallet: the account password, a PIN, or a device passkey (Face ID / Touch ID), and more than one at once — one per device, managed under Account → Ways to unlock. Lose a device and the others still open the wallet; the last remaining method can never be removed, so you can't accidentally strand yourself.

Verify, don't trust

"Non-custodial" is a claim, and claims should be checkable. The part of amparo that can touch money — where your password is typed, your key is unlocked, and every transaction is decoded and approved — is a small, open-source app on its own origin, vault.amparo.systems. The proprietary dashboard around it can only ask the vault for a signature you approve in a popup that shows the decoded transaction; the browser's same-origin policy keeps the key and password out of the dashboard's reach.

The deployed vault bundle is committed and hash-pinned, so anyone can rebuild it from source and confirm the live page serves exactly those bytes — nothing injected, nothing swapped. That's what lets the FAQ say "don't trust us, check us" and mean it.

Non-custodial betting, in one line

You get the markets — Polymarket, Myriad, Azuro and Limitless on one board — and the promo strategies like matched betting, without handing your balance to anyone. The keys stay with you; the platform is just the desk you work from.