Assets and trustlines

Holding an asset other than XLM means opening a trustline for it. Adding, removing, and finding one you can trust.

XLM is Stellar's native asset and needs nothing. Every other asset needs a trustline: a record on your account saying it is willing to hold that asset from that issuer.

A trustline locks 0.5 XLM as a reserve while it is open, and releases it when you close it.

Open Settings → Manage assets.

Adding an asset

Search the directory

Add an asset searches the StellarExpert asset directory as you type. Results show the asset code, its issuer's home domain where the directory knows it, and how many accounts already trust it.

Check the issuer, not the code

Anyone can issue an asset called USDC. The code alone is not identity: the issuer is.

Pocket warns you when several results share a code, and shows the domain against each, because that is the part that distinguishes a real asset from an imitation of it.

Adding a trustline is a signed transaction like any other. The review states that it lets your account hold the asset, that it locks 0.5 XLM as a reserve, that removing it later releases the reserve, and that it is visible on the ledger.

Only classic assets appear in the search. A contract-only token has no classic issuer and therefore no trustline to open, so listing one would be offering something that cannot be done.

Removing an asset

Select an asset in Your assets and remove it. This closes the trustline and releases the 0.5 XLM.

Stellar refuses to close a trustline with a balance still in it, so Pocket refuses first, with the figure:

You still hold 12.3400000 USDC. Send or swap all of it out before removing the trustline.

Logos are keyed on the issuer

Every asset logo Pocket ships is packaged with the extension and keyed on the issuer, not the code. An asset from an unverified issuer misses the lookup and draws a plain letter instead of borrowing a real brand's mark.

Nothing is fetched at runtime. Beyond the privacy cost of an image request per asset you hold, an issuer-controlled image URL would be a tracking pixel that reported your holdings. The extension's content security policy pins images to its own package, so a remote logo is blocked by the browser rather than merely discouraged.

Where trustlines matter elsewhere


Receiving an asset	you need a trustline before anyone can pay you in it
Swapping into an asset	the swap reverts without one, so Pocket refuses first
Yield	the vault's underlying asset needs one
Bridging USDC in	you need a USDC trustline for the mint to land

Each of those screens links back here rather than leaving you to work out what to do.

What the balance list shows

The home screen lists XLM plus every configured asset your account actually holds a trustline for.

An asset you do not have a trustline for is omitted, not shown as zero. "You do not trust this asset" and "you hold zero of it" are different facts, and only one of them is about your money.

An asset whose issuer has frozen your trustline shows Not authorised, because the issuer controls whether that balance can move and no action of yours changes it.