> ## 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.

# Introduction

> Reach the funds in your Trustodian wallets using third-party software, without Trustodian

This guide is for the person who holds the funds. It shows how to rebuild your Trustodian wallets in
third-party software using your recovery phrase, so that your access to the money does not depend on
Trustodian being reachable, online, or in business.

Nothing here requires our servers, our app, or our permission. Everything below is standard: BIP-39
phrases, standard derivation paths, and output descriptors.

## How recovery works

Your funds are not stored in Trustodian. They sit on their blockchains, and a key authorises moving
them. Except for a wallet you imported by private key, every one of those keys comes from one
phrase, by a fixed and public procedure:

```
recovery phrase
  └─ + passphrase, if one was set
       └─ derivation path          ← picks which key
            └─ private key
                 └─ address        ← what the chain knows
                      └─ funds
```

Any wallet that runs the same procedure on the same phrase arrives at the same addresses. That is
the whole of recovery: there is no account to log into and no permission to request.

The path is what usually goes wrong. Two different paths over one phrase produce two completely
unrelated wallets, both valid, only one of them yours.

## Start here

**1. What are you recovering?**

Pick the network below. Each network page gives you the exact path, how the wallet index behaves,
and the address format to expect.

**2. Is it a vault?**

A vault is a multisig, and restoring the phrase alone never restores one. Read [How vaults
recover](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/vaults.md) first: for Bitcoin and Cardano you also need [the Recovery Kit](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/recovery-kit.md),
and without it the funds cannot be reached.

**3. Which wallet will you use?**

The network page names the workable choices. [Wallet guides](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/wallets/metamask.md) carry the
click-by-click procedure for the four wallets where the interface itself needs explaining.

> [!NOTE]
>
> New to this, or not sure any of it applies? Read [Before you begin](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/before-you-begin.md) first. It
> covers what you need in hand, how the passphrase behaves, which wallets the phrase does **not**
> recover, and the rules that keep the phrase from being stolen while you work.

## Networks

> **[Ethereum and EVM](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/ethereum.md)**
>
> Also Polygon, BNB, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche

> **[Bitcoin](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/bitcoin.md)**
>
> Native segwit, one restore finds every wallet

> **[Solana](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/solana.md)**
>
> Index varies the account, not the address

> **[Cardano](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/cardano.md)**
>
> Icarus scheme, index varies the account

> **[Tron](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/tron.md)**
>
> Coin type 195, not an Ethereum key

> **[XRP Ledger](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/xrp.md)**
>
> secp256k1, not ed25519

## Vaults

> **[How vaults recover](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/vaults.md)**
>
> Which rebuild from the chain, and which only from your kit

> **[The Recovery Kit](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/recovery-kit.md)**
>
> Every vault and wallet on the account, in one file

> **[Bitcoin vaults](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/bitcoin-vault.md)**
>
> Output descriptors in Sparrow, Specter, Bitcoin Core

> **[Cardano vaults](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/cardano-vault.md)**
>
> Native scripts and cardano-cli

> **[XRP vaults](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/xrp-vault.md)**
>
> Signer lists and xrpl.js

> **[Tron vaults](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/tron-vault.md)**
>
> Account permissions and TronWeb

## Reference

> **[Derivation paths](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/derivation-paths.md)**
>
> The canonical table for every chain

> **[Wallet guides](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/wallets/metamask.md)**
>
> EVM wallets, Sparrow, Electrum, Eternl

> **[Troubleshooting](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/troubleshooting.md)**
>
> Wrong address, missing funds, passphrase


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