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MyEtherWallet

softwareactive

Long-running self-custody Ethereum and multichain wallet ecosystem offering mobile, browser and web-based tools.

Developer / company
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Origin
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Launch
2015-08-11
Custody
self_custody
Confidence
high
Last verified
2026-08-19

Product family

Products

mobile_appactive
MEW Mobile2026-08-23

Current MEW mobile wallet application for iOS and Android, providing self-custody wallet access and onchain features.

Chronology

Lifecycle timeline

2018-04-24
phishing_campaignhigh

BGP and DNS hijack redirected MyEtherWallet web users to a phishing site

A BGP route hijack affecting Amazon Route 53 DNS infrastructure redirected some DNS resolution for myetherwallet.com to a malicious server. Users who proceeded through the invalid TLS certificate warning could submit wallet credentials to the phishing site, and the attacker used stolen information to transfer Ethereum.

Scope: otherFunds affected: yesEvidence: 2
2020-03
product_released

Full-fledged MEW wallet mobile app released

Product: MEW Mobile

MyEtherWallet's first-party ten-year retrospective states that its full-fledged MEW wallet app was released in March 2020 after the earlier MEWconnect signer-app lineage.

Evidence: 1

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