Briefly describe your issue:
Hy, I got a notification at my Rewards page which says: Action required: connect a custodial account or your vBATs will be lost.
I was trying to connect to Uphold or Gemini, but neither of them is supported in Hungary where I am from. What should I do now? What Operating System and Brave version are you using? (Menu --> About Brave)
Who is your verified custodian? (Uphold/Gemini/bitFlyer)
none Are you in a supported region? (see here for list of supported regions)
No
@tbalazs97 unfortunately, there’s no other option. About the most you can do is see if you can tip someone if you want to try to send it to a verified Creator. Otherwise it just will be lost when sunsetting of vBAT occurs.
As I said I am from Hungary, and my Uphold account is also registered in Hungary. I’ve just checked that Hungary is supported in Uphold. When I am trying to connect my Uphold acc to my Brave rewards it says: Your Uphold account is registered in a country that’s not currently supported for connecting to Brave Rewards.
I checked my address in my Uphold wallet, it is in Hungary. What can I do? Am I missing something?
So when you mentioned it is not supported, that’s not true. Perhaps just is a language difference, but at least we now have clarified that and can understand the situation better.
What this sounds like is that you created your Uphold account using a passport that belongs to another country. Does that sound about right?
I just want to be clear on this, your address “doesn’t matter.” The API designed by Uphold uses your passport. So let’s pretend for a moment that you created your Uphold account using a German passport. Then later you moved to Hungary and changed your address with Uphold. This would still report that you are German, unless you provided a Hungarian passport and asked them to update that as well.
This has been a big headache for a lot of people, but it is how they have it programmed.
The same is happening for Brazilian users. Since yesterday I started to receive this same message. I’ve been trying to reconnect my Uphold account since August to no avail and now I have 7 days to not lose my rewards. Resolve with Uphold or release connection to other custodial accounts, please.