> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Ethereum and EVM chains

> What a Trustodian EVM wallet is, its derivation path, and how the index maps to accounts

```
m/44'/60'/0'/0/{index}
```

BIP-44 on secp256k1. The same path and the same key on every EVM network Trustodian supports:
Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Smart Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism and Avalanche. Addresses are
checksummed hex beginning `0x`, one per index.

> [!NOTE]
>
> **The network is not part of the key.** Your Ethereum address and your Polygon address are the same
> string, and the balance you see depends only on which network the wallet is pointed at. So an
> imported EVM wallet showing nothing is almost always the network selector, not the phrase — check
> that before anything else.

## The index

`{index}` is the address leaf, so all your EVM wallets sit under one account, `m/44'/60'/0'`. This is
also how account numbering works in a standard wallet, so the mapping is direct:

| Trustodian EVM wallet | Path | Account in a standard wallet |
| :- | :- | :- |
| 1st | `m/44'/60'/0'/0/0` | Account 1 |
| 2nd | `m/44'/60'/0'/0/1` | Account 2 |
| 3rd | `m/44'/60'/0'/0/2` | Account 3 |

To reach your third wallet, import the phrase and add accounts until three exist.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Some wallets offer a "Ledger Live" style path, `m/44'/60'/{index}'/0/0`, which varies the **account**
> rather than the address. It produces entirely different addresses from the same phrase. Trustodian
> does not use it.

## How to recover it

> **[MetaMask, Rabby, Trust Wallet](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/wallets/metamask.md)**
>
> Step-by-step for all three, including what to do when a wallet asks for the path directly

Any BIP-39 wallet that derives on `m/44'/60'/0'/0/{index}` reproduces these addresses. That page
walks through the three whose interface needs explaining; anything else you already know how to
drive will work just as well.

## Verifying

Compare the restored address, character for character, against the one shown in Trustodian. Do not
judge by the balance. See [Troubleshooting](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/troubleshooting.md).

## Vaults

EVM vaults are Gnosis Safe contracts. The owners and threshold live on-chain, so nothing has to be
rebuilt: once your owner key is imported, any Safe interface pointed at the vault address finds the
vault and your membership in it.

Your [Recovery Kit](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/recovery-kit.md) records that address, so you do not have to remember it. See
[How vaults recover](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/vaults.md).


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