PulseChain launched in May 2023 by copying Ethereum's entire state. Every address, every balance, every token and every contract was duplicated onto the new network at once.
That means if you held anything on Ethereum in May 2023, you have a PulseChain position, at the same address, whether or not you have ever heard of the chain or done anything on it.
Your address starts with 0x and is identical to your Ethereum one. Gas is paid in PLS.
What you get out of the box
Pick your import method.
On PulseChain
- Open your wallet and copy your address. It starts with 0x and is the same address you use on Ethereum.
- Add your Ethereum wallet too. The copies you received here correspond to what you held there in May 2023.
On Kryptos
- Go to Kryptos.io and sign up with your Google account.
- From the menu, click Integrations.
- Click Add Integration and search for PulseChain.
- Click the PulseChain icon, then choose Import using Address.
- Give the wallet a name, paste your address, and click Import Your Transactions.
Good to know
- You did not need to claim anything. The copies existed at your address from the moment the chain launched.
- Copied tokens share names with their Ethereum originals but are different assets on a different chain.
- If you took part in the earlier sacrifice, that and the later token you received are two separate events months apart.
The chain that copied everything, including your wallet
Most new networks launch empty and people move onto them. PulseChain did the opposite: it launched in May 2023 as a complete copy of Ethereum, taken from a snapshot a few days earlier.
Not a copy of the software. A copy of the state. Every address, every balance, every token, every contract, every collectible that existed on Ethereum at the snapshot existed on PulseChain from its first block. If you held ten of something on Ethereum, you held ten copies of it here, at the same address, controlled by the same key.
The consequence is unusual and is the reason this page exists: you can have a position on this chain without ever having interacted with it. No claim, no signature, no opt-in. People who have never heard of PulseChain hold balances on it, and because the address is identical to their Ethereum one, there is no question about whose they are.
How that is taxed depends heavily on where you file. Several countries treat tokens received from a chain fork as income, valued when you gained control, with that value becoming their cost for a later sale. Others take a different view. And there is a genuine argument about when control began here, given the tokens existed at an address you already held without you knowing. We are not going to pretend that is settled.
What we would say is that ignoring it is the one clearly bad option. If you held on Ethereum in May 2023, it is worth importing this address to see what is there before deciding anything. See the USA crypto tax guide or the UK crypto tax guide, and our Ethereum integration for the original side.
Two tokens with the same name
The copying created a problem that follows PulseChain holders around: for every token that existed on Ethereum, there are now two, sharing a name and a symbol, on two different chains, at completely different prices.
The best known example is a token that exists both in its original Ethereum form and as the free copy created here. They have the same name. They are not the same asset, they do not track each other, and one has often been worth a small fraction of the other.
Any tool that identifies assets by their symbol will merge the two. The result is not slightly off, it is meaningless: a blended price for two unrelated markets, applied to a quantity that mixes holdings on two chains.
The fix is to keep them separated by chain rather than by name, which is what Kryptos does when both wallets are imported. If you are checking your own records, the quickest test is whether a token you hold on both chains shows the same price on each. It should not.
The sacrifice, and the token that came later
Before the chain launched there was a period where people sent tokens to an address to signal support. The tokens were gone, irrevocably, and nothing was promised in return. Later, a token associated with the network's main exchange was distributed, and participation in the earlier event influenced who received it.
For records, the important part is that these are two separate events, months apart, and nothing on chain connects them. Sending tokens away for nothing is a disposal with no proceeds, which may be a loss or may be treated as a gift depending on where you file. Receiving tokens later is a separate receipt, valued when it arrived.
Almost no software will link the two automatically, because there is no link to find: different dates, different assets, no transaction tying them together. Anyone who took part should expect to handle it deliberately rather than assume an import will work it out.
Manage your PulseChain portfolio with Kryptos.
Discovering a position you did not know about
Anyone holding on Ethereum in May 2023 received copies here automatically. Many people have never looked.
Keeping copied tokens apart from their originals
A copied token and the Ethereum original share a name but are separate assets with separate prices.
Reconstructing the sacrifice and what followed
Sending tokens away for nothing and later receiving a different token are two events, and most tools will not connect them.
Audit-ready, automatically.
Once your wallets and exchanges are connected, generating a tax report takes a single click. Open Reports from the menu, choose your jurisdiction, and download.
A chain fork may be income where you file
Receiving tokens from a fork is treated as income in some countries, valued when you gained control of them, which then becomes their cost. Other countries treat it differently. This varies enough that it is worth checking rather than assuming.
When you gained control is genuinely arguable
The tokens appeared at an address you already controlled, without you doing anything. Whether control began at launch or only when you added the network and could use them is a real question with different answers in different places.
Copied tokens are not their originals
A token copied here and the Ethereum version share a name and nothing else. They trade at different prices on different chains. Matching them by name alone merges two assets and produces meaningless numbers.
The sacrifice and the later token are separate events
Sending tokens away irrevocably was a disposal for no return. Receiving a different token later was a separate receipt. They happened months apart and most software will not link them.
You may owe something on a position you never used
The whole point of the fork is that it required no participation. That does not automatically remove any obligation, which is why it is worth looking rather than ignoring.
Read-only by design.
- Kryptos only ever needs your public wallet address
- A public address is read-only. It can't move or spend anything
- We never ask for your recovery phrase or private key
- Remove a wallet whenever you like, and its data goes with it
If something doesn't sync.
Those are the copies from the fork. Everything you held on Ethereum in May 2023 was duplicated to the same address here.
Check whether they are being matched against the Ethereum originals. Copied tokens share names but are different assets with different prices.
You may still hold a position. The copies arrived without any action from you, which is exactly why people miss them.
Still stuck? Email support@kryptos.io or open live chat from the app.