Recovery Phrase
A list of 12 or 24 ordinary words that acts as the master key to your wallet.
A recovery phrase, sometimes called a <em>seed phrase</em>, is the human-readable backup of your wallet. When you create a Malairte wallet, the app generates a sequence of 12 or 24 words from a fixed dictionary. Those words, in that exact order, can recreate your wallet on any device. The phrase is more important than the wallet app itself: if your computer is lost or destroyed, the phrase brings everything back; if someone else gets the phrase, they can take everything. Write it on paper, store it offline, and never type it into a website, chat, or photograph it.