An unprotected Broker loses 2% of its life every day and dies in 50. Protect it and the clock stops. It never leaves your wallet — there is nothing to approve and nothing holding it, so you can list it or sell it while it is protected. Release it and it carries on from exactly the life it stopped at.
This page reads your Brokers from the chain. Nothing is signed until you press something.
Every figure here is read from the contracts, and every button builds a transaction your wallet asks you to sign. Protecting a Broker never moves it: it stays yours, in your wallet, and can be sold at any time — selling simply ends the protection.