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About Us

We spent the last six years perfecting Hybrid Custody using Smart Vaults – a revolutionary Layer 2 protocol that makes Bitcoin and Altcoins UNSTEALABLE, UNLOSABLE, and UN-CONFISCATABLE.

Hybrid Custody solves the critical dilemma of Self-Custody vs. Managed Custody in crypto i.e. you risk loss and theft when you manage your own private-keys/crypto or risk fraud, capital controls, seizure, and more when you entrust the same to third-party custodians like Crypto Exchanges.

Our Solutions

  1. Guardian Hardware Wallet:

    A mobile-first hardware wallet designed for simplicity, security, and affordability. At just $20, it’s not only user-friendly but also the most cost-effective hardware wallet on the market.

     

  2. Hybrid Custody Vaults:

    The smartest way to manage your crypto, combining the best of Self-Custody and the best of Managed-Custody.

    You get …

    • Full control of your private keys and coins.
    • Protection even if your keys are lost or stolen.
    • Seamless inheritance support. 
  1. Spending from a Smart Vault™ is a 2-Step process with an onchain unlock transaction and a spending transaction. There is also a configurable delay enforced between these two steps to help you take rememdial steps incase your private-key is lost or stolen.
  2. Unlock and spend as you wish with just your private-key – similar to Self-Custody
  3. Reach out to Guardian if your private-key is lost – we will verify your identity and recover your coins for you.
  4. Co-sign a Recovery Transaction with Guardian in case your private-key is stolen and override the malicious unlock transaction made using your stolen private-key.

Recovery Matrix

Smart Vaults are backed by groundbreaking research and proven by independent, peer-reviewed studies:

Interactive Multi-Credential Authentication, published by leading academics from Cornell and Technion, and accepted at ACM CCS 2024.

Guardian is a wholly owned subsidiary of CoinVault.