GUIDE
Protecting your crypto gains — without selling
If your crypto has gone up, you're facing a familiar trade-off: sell to lock in the gain, or hold and risk giving it back. Here's a middle path that keeps your coins and the upside.
The tax and timing problem with selling
Selling to protect a gain comes with two costs. First, it triggers a taxable event — you owe tax on the gain the moment you sell. Second, it removes you from the asset: if it keeps rising, you've missed the rest of the run. For long-term holders, "selling to feel safe" often ends up being the expensive choice.
Keep the asset, manage the downside separately
SaveMyCrypto lets you keep your coins where they are and put downside protection on part of that exposure. Your spot value stays exposed to further gains, while the protection covers how much you choose — so a sharp pullback can be offset without selling your position.
Gain Protect: raise your protection as your portfolio rises
As your assets appreciate, you can choose to move your protection level up with them — so part of a gain can be preserved. It's a preference you set, and protection still needs to be confirmed active before anything is working.
What protection does not do
It isn't a guarantee against loss, it doesn't take custody of your assets, and it doesn't cover assets no protection instrument is available for. Markets are volatile, and protection carries its own cost and risk — which we surface honestly.
Find out what you can protect
Connect a read-only wallet and see which of your assets are currently eligible. Nothing moves without you.
General educational content, not investment or tax advice.