Social Recovery Wallet
A wallet that lets trusted contacts help restore access without a traditional seed phrase.
A social recovery wallet lets a predetermined group of trusted contacts ("guardians") collectively help restore access to a wallet if its owner loses their device or primary credentials, without relying solely on a traditional seed phrase backup.
This is one application of account abstraction, intended to reduce the single-point-of-failure risk a seed phrase alone represents, while introducing a different form of trust in the chosen guardians.
Examples
- A social recovery wallet might require agreement from 3 of 5 trusted guardians to restore access.
- This approach trades traditional seed-phrase-only recovery for trust distributed among chosen guardians.
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Understanding Account Abstraction Wallets
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What Happens If You Lose a Seed Phrase?
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Shamir's Secret Sharing
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Guardian (Social Recovery)
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Account Abstraction and ERC-4337: What Smart Wallets Actually Change
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