Crypto is young and wild

Banking system has been around for decades and have matured the security and safety system for keeping the valuables, meanwhile Crypto is a strong newcomer (only a couple of years) and needs more attention.

Most of my advice here would apply to other coins/tokens specially other ERC-20 tokens.

Golden rules of keeping your Kins’ safe:

You own your coins only if you own the “private key” (and no one else).

Having your Kins on exchanges is a major safety threat. They can change their withdraw/usage policy, block your access to your coins for whatever reasons at any time and worst thing possible, they can get hacked. And it happens a lot. Trust me, trust no one other than yourself. ;-)

Always keep your private keys safe, have more than one backup.

First of all, do not ever share your private keys with people or services. Specially for airdrops, losing all your valuable coins for $2 worth of random coins does not worth it. Moreover, keep your private keys safe, have a copy on a paper in a safe, save one encrypted version on a safe cloud for easier access.

Have different wallets for different purposes.

Imagine a scenario of you having 2 Ether and 10M Kins. You want to keep hold of your coins for a long time to gain value. Have a super safe wallet, preferably a hardware wallet with a backup seed and keep 1.5 Ether and 9.5M Kins in it. Make 1 or 2 software wallet (use MyCrypto or MyEtherWallet or Metamask) to keep the remaining for everyday transactions. Again, backup all of your private keys.

There is no customer service on blockchains. If you fail, there is no turn-around.

Double check everything you do, do not send your coins to wrong addresses. There are tons of stories everyday that someone will post on a social media about sending all their crypto to wrong addresses.

Making a new wallet is easy and free. If you feel suspicious, test it with a very small amount, on the new wallet.

It’s very easy to make new wallets and they are all free, if you want to test a new thing, let’s say KinKittes (Cryptokitties with Kin). You can easily make a new wallet in Metamask, send some Kin (you only pay $0.01–0.1 gas fee) and try it out in the new wallet. Don’t risk your valuables.