What is Verify Contract Address Ownership?

Note: Moonriver (MOVR) on Kusama is a companion network to Moonbeam and provides a permanently incentivized canary network. New code ships to Moonriver first, where it can be tested and verified under real economic conditions. Once proven, the same code ships to Moonbeam on Polkadot.

Polygon PoS (polygonscan.com) is an EVM-compatible environment optimized for high throughput and low transaction fees while Polygon zkEVM (zkevm.polygonscan.com) is an EVM-equivalent ZK rollup designed for security.

Verify Contract Address Ownership process involves verifying the ownership of a smart contract address with the Ethereum address used to create the smart contract and then linking the contract address to the owner's Etherscan account.

Previously, Etherscan adopts a signed message method where the owner of the smart contract will need to sign a message claiming ownership of the particular contract for every submission.

The signed message is a security step to ensure only the owner/creator of a contract address can update the token information of the contract itself.

Moving forward, once a user has claimed ownership of a contract address, the user will be able to update their token information and address name tag without needing to sign a new message for future submissions.

The contract owner can verify ownership of multiple addresses under a single Etherscan’s account.

To have an address verified, the user would need :

A Etherscan account
To have signed a message once to verify ownership of each address

Features available upon verification of address ownership :

Update Token Info
Update Token Sales Info
Update address Name Tag / Labels

See :
How to Verify Token Ownership?

The Verify Address Ownership feature is only available for Smart Contract Addresses and applies to all EVM-chain explorers built by Etherscan where the feature is available