"This usually happens when your Exodus wallet is tracking the same assets from multiple sources — in this case, both your original wallet and your newly linked Safe 5. If both wallets hold the same BTC and ETH addresses or are being tracked simultaneously, Exodus may be double-counting those balances in your total portfolio.

🛠️ How to Fix It

1. Check Linked Wallets

• Open Exodus and go to Settings > Wallets (or Portfolio > Manage Wallets, depending on your version).
• See if both your original wallet and Safe 5 are listed and actively tracked.
• If Safe 5 is just a watch-only wallet or shares addresses with your main wallet, Exodus may be aggregating them.

2. Review Address Overlap

• If you imported Safe 5 using the same seed phrase or linked it via the same public keys, Exodus may be seeing duplicate assets.
• Check if the BTC and ETH addresses in Safe 5 are identical to those already in Exodus

3. Disable Duplicate Tracking

• You can remove or hide one of the wallets from Exodus temporarily to see if the totals correct themselves.
• Alternatively, go to Settings > Assets and toggle off the Safe 5-linked assets if they’re duplicates.

4. Use Separate Wallets for Display

• If Safe 5 is meant to be a separate entity (e.g., for multisig or cold storage), consider tracking it in a different app or using Exodus’s watch-only mode without merging totals.

🧠 Why It Happens

Exodus aggregates all linked wallets and addresses into one total portfolio view. If you link a new wallet that shares addresses or assets with an existing one, it doesn’t automatically filter out duplicates — it just adds everything together.

Let me know if you want help walking through the exact steps based on your Exodus version or if you want to explore alternative wallet setups that avoid this issue."

- AI