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Seed Phrase Safety Checklist

Anyone with your seed phrase can move what it protects, and nobody can reverse it. Work through these ten checks, on paper and on your phone. Your ticks stay in this browser.

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Where Should I Keep My Seed Phrase?

Keep at least one copy on paper, written in order and numbered, somewhere private and away from your phone. Avoid screenshots, photos, email, chat apps and notes apps that sync to a cloud, because each leaves copies where malware or other people can reach them. If you keep a digital copy, keep it encrypted and hidden until you need it, and delete any copy you pasted from.

How to Use It

  1. 1Work through the checks in order, starting with your paper copy.
  2. 2Tick each one as you finish it. Your progress is saved in this browser.
  3. 3Repeat the checklist whenever you set up a new wallet.

Keep Going

Where to Store a Crypto Seed PhraseThe full guide behind this checklist.
Notes and Seed PhrasesSeed phrase notes that stay hidden until you press and hold.
Store a Crypto Seed PhraseStep-by-step: adding a seed phrase note in HypaVault.

Questions About the Seed Phrase Safety Checklist

Ten checks for keeping crypto recovery words safe, on paper and on your phone.

  1. A seed phrase is the list of words, usually 12 or 24, that can restore a crypto wallet. Anyone who has the words can move what the wallet holds.

  2. No. Screenshots land in your gallery, and often in a cloud photo backup, where malware can scan for them.

  3. Yes. A written copy kept somewhere private can't be reached from afar. Many people treat any digital copy as a backup to it.

  4. Not an ordinary one that syncs to a cloud. If you keep a digital copy, use an encrypted note that stays hidden until you need it.

    Read the Help Article

  5. Move your funds to a new wallet with a new phrase, quickly. Nobody can reverse a transfer made with your words.

  6. Only in this browser, so you can come back and finish. Nothing is sent anywhere, and Start Over clears them.

  7. No. Your seed phrase belongs to your crypto wallet. HypaVault's recovery phrase is 12 different words that reset a vault's passcode and open its backups. Keep them apart.

    Read the Help Article

  8. As an encrypted seed phrase note of 12 or 24 words, shown only while you press and hold. Anything you copy clears from the clipboard after 60 seconds.

    Read the Help Article

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