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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 wallet accounts, addresses or keys from a root seed or extended key using an agreed…

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 process by which wallets calculate public receiving addresses from cryptographic keys and, in many wallets, a hierarchical derivation…

Address Gap Limit

An address gap limit is the number of consecutive unused derived wallet addresses that certain hierarchical deterministic wallet discovery methods scan before…

Address Migration

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

Address Rotation

Address rotation means using fresh receiving addresses or periodically replacing operational wallet destinations to improve privacy, accounting separation or risk management. Rotation…

Air-Gapped Signing

Air-gapped signing creates a digital signature on a device that is deliberately isolated from network connectivity, aiming to reduce remote theft of…

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 amount of an asset an account can use for permitted actions right now, after accounting for restrictions, pending…

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 authorizing a cryptographic message or transaction without being able to independently read and verify its meaningful effects.

Brain Wallet

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