Lose your keys?Keep your crypto.
A vault only you control. Stop checking in, and your assets go to the address you chose.
- Self-custody· we never hold your keys
- Built on Safe· Safe secures $60B+
- No seed phrases· your guardians are the backup
- Verifiable· live proof on mainnet
How vault recovery works
Protected. Your vault holds the assets. You check in on a schedule you set.
Your guardian
Someone you trust
Your vault
Your recipient
Anyone you name
The guarantees
What stays true, however you set it up
“Who actually holds my assets?”
Your Safe, your assets
Your assets sit in a Safe contract you alone own. The people you involve in the handoff don't co-own your Safe. What guardians can't do
“What if I forget to check in?”
A window you can close
A handoff doesn't fire the moment you go quiet. During the handoff grace period, any check-in from you cancels the handoff. The handoff timeline
“What if Ante disappears?”
The Recovery Kit
One page that shows how to move your funds out of the vault with your own key, even without the Ante app.
“What if someone forces me?”
Guardians can't redirect
A handoff can only ever send assets to the recipient you already named — a guardian, pressured or not, can't point it anywhere else.
Your setup
Choose who guards your assets, and who gets them if you don’t check in.
Protected. Your vault holds the assets. You check in on a schedule you set.
Starts it
Your other wallet
Your vault
Receives it
Your other wallet
Your phone can die without taking your crypto with it. But lose this device and your recovery address, and not even Ante can help.
- Losing this device: covered
- You, out of reach: not covered at this setting
- Handing it down: not covered at this setting
- A helper going rogue: covered
913KETH
lost forever to mistakes that cannot be undone
89%
of holders fear their family couldn’t access their crypto
6mo
between check-ins, the only upkeep needed
Lost ETH: Conor Grogan, Coinbase (2025), a conservative count that excludes forgotten keys and dormant wallets. Family-access figure: DGLegacy holder survey. Six months is Ante’s default check-in interval, and you can change it.
The human brain is quite poorly suited for remembering passwords and tracking paper wallets, but it’s an ASIC for keeping track of relationships with other people.
Unlike classic social recovery, Ante guardians cannot move your assets anywhere else. Even a colluding majority can only send them to the address you chose.
Vitalik’s first suggested guardian is a device you already own.
Proof, not promises
A public vault that runs a real handoff on mainnet, on a loop. Watch one end to end.
Watch the handoff loopBack it up today. Hand it down someday.
Two minutes, one address you control. Change who holds the roles anytime.