---
title: "What is Verify Contract Address Ownership?"
description: "Verify Address Ownership process involves verifying the ownership of a smart contract address with the Ethereum address used to create the smart contract."
url: https://info.etherscan.com/what-is-verify-address-ownership/
tags: ["Token & Dapp Update"]
published: 2019-11-27
updated: 2026-06-21
---

# What is Verify Contract Address Ownership?

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 :

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

#### Features available upon verification of address ownership :

1.  Update Token Info
2.  Update Token Sales Info
3.  Update address Name Tag / Labels

See :  
[How to Verify Token Ownership?](https://info.etherscan.com/how-to-verify-address-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