How-to & Learn

Adding a second key requirement to your own account is the closest thing TRON has to on-chain two-factor authentication — done deliberately, it protects you instead of exposing you.

You don't need a dedicated tool to see an account's permission data — TronScan exposes it directly, if you know which section to look at.

Cleaning up an Active permission — whether it was a misconfigured experiment or something you didn't authorize — means submitting a new AccountPermissionUpdate, not just deleting an entry.

Two numbers decide how many keys — and which combinations of them — are enough to authorize a transaction from a TRON account.

Owner permission is the top layer of control on a TRON account — whoever holds it can decide who's allowed to do anything else with that account.

Active permission is what actually authorizes the transactions you make every day — transfers, contract calls, and everything short of changing the account's own control structure.

TRON Power sounds like it might relate to account control, but it's really about staking and governance — a separate system from the permissions this site checks.

One specific on-chain transaction type is responsible for every permission change on TRON, from a legitimate multisig setup to the scam that hijacks an account.

Both chains support requiring multiple signatures for a transaction, but they get there through fundamentally different mechanisms — which changes what you need to check for security.