Social recovery: losing a key no longer loses the address

Losing a key has always meant losing everything attached to it. That is a consequence of design, not of cryptography: if the address is the key, they cannot be separated.

On NeuroChain the address is a stable identity, and the keys that control it live in network state. So a wallet can be recovered without changing the address, and with it the balance, the history and the reputation.

How it works

• Nominate guardians — ordinary .human addresses of people you trust.
• Lose your key, create a new one, open a recovery request.
• Guardians approve with their own keys. No seed phrase is ever shared with anyone.
• An M-of-N threshold, plus a timelock with a veto window for the owner — so a coerced or compromised set of guardians cannot act instantly and unopposed.
• Quantum-safe throughout (ML-DSA-65).

Tested on-chain

Recovery completes, the old key stops working, and the new key controls the same address.

Your identity and your reputation stay with you.