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Social recovery

A wallet design in which designated guardians help restore or change account access.

PLAIN-ENGLISH DEFINITION

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Guardians provide a recovery route when the normal signing key is lost. Depending on the wallet, a guardian threshold and waiting period may be required to replace it. Recovery powers are separate from everyday spending powers, so the key question is exactly what the guardians can authorize.

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"I lost my signing device. My guardians can authorize a replacement key under the wallet's recovery rules."

Three anonymous guardians hold separate whole approval disks around a recovery port, with a replacement signing device, disconnected old device, separate dark socket and hourglass.
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