EVM wallets

Restoring Trustodian EVM wallets in MetaMask, Rabby or Trust Wallet

Use this for every EVM network: Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Smart Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism and Avalanche. They all share one key and one address. What you are recovering, and why the index behaves as it does, is on Ethereum and EVM chains.

The path you need:

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

MetaMask

MetaMask derives Ethereum accounts on that exact path by default, so nothing has to be entered.

1. Install MetaMask from metamask.io

   Type the address in yourself. Extensions impersonating MetaMask are common in search results and in extension stores.

2. Choose to import an existing wallet

   On first run, pick the option to import a wallet using a secret recovery phrase rather than creating a new one.

3. Enter the phrase and set a local password

   The password is new and local to this browser. It is not your Trustodian password and has no relationship to your phrase.

4. Add accounts until your wallet appears

   Account 1 is index 0. Use MetaMask’s account menu to add further accounts, which walk up the index. Compare each address against the one shown in Trustodian.

MetaMask does not offer a custom derivation path for accounts created from the phrase. Everything Trustodian derives for EVM sits on MetaMask’s default path, so this is not a limitation here, but it does mean you cannot use MetaMask to check a non-standard path if something looks wrong. Use Rabby for that.

Rabby

Rabby exposes a derivation path choice when importing a seed phrase, which makes it the better tool when you need to see which path is in use or reach a specific index.

1. Import the seed phrase

   Choose the seed-phrase import option and enter the words.

2. Select the standard BIP-44 path

   Where a path selector is offered, take the BIP-44 standard option, the one matching m/44'/60'/0'/0/{index} and varying the last component. Avoid a “Ledger Live” style option, which varies the account instead (m/44'/60'/{index}'/0/0) and produces entirely different addresses from the same phrase.

3. Select the addresses that match

   Rabby lists the addresses derived under the chosen path. Tick the ones matching your Trustodian wallets; the list is in index order, so the first entry is index 0.

Trust Wallet

Trust Wallet imports a multi-coin secret phrase and derives Ethereum on the standard BIP-44 path.

1. Import with a secret phrase

   Choose the import option and enter the words. Trust will restore several chains at once from the one phrase.

2. Check the Ethereum address

   Compare it against your first EVM wallet in Trustodian.

Trust Wallet restores the first account on each chain. If you have more than one EVM wallet, use MetaMask or Rabby, which let you walk up the index.

If a wallet asks for the path directly

Some tools want the account path and derive the index themselves; others want the full leaf path for one address.

The tool wants	Enter
An account path, plus an index or account number	m/44'/60'/0'/0 with index {index}
A full path to one address	m/44'/60'/0'/0/0 for your first wallet, .../1 for the second

m/44'/60'/0'/0/0 and m/44'/60'/0'/0 differ by one level: the first is an address, the second is the account above it. If a tool rejects one, try the other.

After the import

Compare the address, not the balance. If it does not match, or it matches and the funds are not there, go to Troubleshooting. If the address matched, start with the network selector — see Ethereum and EVM chains.

EVM vaults use Gnosis Safe, whose configuration is on-chain: point a Safe interface at the vault address and your imported key is an owner of it. See How vaults recover.