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Wallets, Custody & Treasury

Wallets, custody models, key management and treasury operations.

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Account Abstraction Wallet

An account abstraction wallet is a smart-contract-based wallet whose authorization and transaction rules can be programmed instead of being limited to one…

Account Consolidation

Account Consolidation is the process of combining balances, records, or operational activity from multiple accounts into fewer accounts for custody, treasury, reporting,…

Account Derivation

Account Derivation is the deterministic creation of multiple blockchain accounts or account-level key branches from a parent seed, extended key, or derivation…

Account Recovery

Account recovery is the controlled process for restoring access to a wallet or custody account after credentials, devices, signers, or normal authentication…

Address Derivation

Address Derivation is the deterministic generation of blockchain addresses and their underlying public keys from a seed, extended key, or structured derivation…

Address Gap Limit

Address Gap Limit is the maximum number of consecutive unused derived addresses a wallet scans before assuming that no later addresses have…

Address Migration

Address Migration is the controlled transition from old receiving or custody addresses to new addresses, scripts, accounts, wallets, or custodians. It includes…

Address Rotation

Address Rotation is the controlled practice of replacing or alternating deposit, receiving, or operational blockchain addresses instead of using one address indefinitely.…

Air-Gapped Signing

Air-Gapped Signing is offline signing performed on a signer that has no direct network connection and exchanges transaction data through tightly controlled…

Air-Gapped Wallet

An air-gapped wallet is a wallet whose private-key environment is deliberately kept without direct network connectivity and signs data transferred through an…

Approval Policy

Approval Policy is a formal set of conditions determining who must review or authorize a wallet, vault, account, or transaction action before…

Asset Consolidation

Asset Consolidation is the movement or restructuring of digital assets from multiple wallets, addresses, networks, custodians, or holdings into fewer controlled positions.…

Asset Custody

Asset custody is the safekeeping and controlled administration of assets for an owner, including protection of access mechanisms, records, transfers, and ownership…

Asset Recovery

Asset recovery is the process of regaining access to, control of, or possession of assets that are inaccessible, misplaced, misdirected, frozen, or…

Auto Recovery

Auto recovery is a system feature that automatically attempts a defined recovery action after detecting a failed, interrupted, or inconsistent wallet or…

Auto Withdraw Wallet

An auto withdraw wallet is an operational wallet configured to send withdrawals automatically when approved requests and predefined balance, destination, risk, and…

Auto-Sweep

Auto-Sweep is an automated rule that transfers funds from designated source addresses or accounts to a target wallet, vault, or consolidation account…

Available Balance

Available Balance is the portion of an account or wallet balance that can presently be transferred, withdrawn, traded, or otherwise used after…

Backup

A backup is a protected recovery copy of the information needed to restore a wallet, signing system, custody service, or its operational…

Balance Sweep

Balance Sweep is a transfer that moves all or a configured portion of an available asset balance from one wallet, account, or…

Bank Wallet

A bank wallet is a non-standard label for a digital wallet operated, issued, or integrated by a bank to provide payment, account,…

Bitcoin Wallet

A Bitcoin wallet is software or hardware that manages keys, addresses, transaction construction, UTXO selection, and signing for the Bitcoin network. The…

Blind Signing

Blind Signing is signing cryptographic data without being able to verify a complete, reliable, human-readable description of the intended transaction or message.…

Brain Wallet

A brain wallet is a wallet whose private key or seed is deterministically generated from a phrase chosen and remembered by a…