> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developer.coincover.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> How to integrate CoinCover recovery for your institution — through a supported wallet platform, our API, or the CLI.

Recover for Institutions gives custodians, exchanges, fintechs, and self-custody teams a credible disaster-recovery path: CoinCover holds encrypted recovery material on your behalf and gets you back access to your assets when a key is lost or compromised. Your plaintext key material is never visible to us or our staff.

How you integrate comes down to one question — whether your wallet platform is one we already support.

## On a supported platform?

If you run on a wallet platform we already integrate with, recovery is served **through that platform**. We sit behind the scenes using its native backup and recovery mechanism, so there's typically nothing for you to build.

| Platform                                 | Wallet model                   | Backup mechanism               |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------ |
| [Fireblocks](/partner-guides/fireblocks) | MPC-CMP, 3-of-3                | RSA encryption via Partner API |
| [BitGo](/partner-guides/bitgo)           | Multi-sig, 2-of-3              | Key ceremony                   |
| [Cobo](/partner-guides/cobo)             | MPC, 2-of-3                    | Key ceremony                   |
| [Utila](/partner-guides/utila)           | MPC, 2-of-2                    | RSA encryption via Partner API |
| [Fordefi](/partner-guides/fordefi)       | MPC, 2-of-2                    | Manual handover (no API)       |
| [Copper](/partner-guides/copper)         | MPC, 2-of-3 (Copper Unlimited) | Key ceremony                   |

If your platform is on this list, talk to your account manager — we handle the integration through the platform.

## Not on a supported platform?

If your platform isn't supported, you integrate with CoinCover directly. There are three ways to do it — pick whichever fits how you operate:

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  <Card title="Back up a key" icon="lock" href="/institutional-recovery/back-up-key-material">
    Use the API to encrypt key material client-side and store the ciphertext with CoinCover.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Add CoinCover as a backup key" icon="key" href="/institutional-recovery/add-a-backup-key">
    Use the API to make CoinCover a key in your multi-sig set up.
  </Card>

  <Card title="CoinCover CLI" icon="terminal" href="/institutional-recovery/cli-integration-guide">
    Back up and recover from the command line — no integration code required.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

We add new platform integrations regularly, so if you'd rather we support your platform directly, talk to us.

## What we always do

Whichever route you take, the protections are the same:

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  <Card title="Hold encrypted recovery material" icon="vault">
    Every key pair is generated inside an AWS Nitro Enclave. The private key is held online for HOT keys, or in our offline, geo-redundant vault for COLD keys. We can't read your recovery material in plaintext, and neither can our staff.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Verify identity at recovery time" icon="user-check">
    Every recovery is gated by identity verification through CoinCover Control. The right person gets your assets back, and no-one else.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Hold the audit trail" icon="scroll">
    Every assignment, every storage operation, every recovery — recorded and retained for the life of the relationship.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Run a 24/7 on-call line" icon="phone">
    Live support for recovery incidents, whenever they happen.
  </Card>
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## What's next

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  <Card title="Back up a key" href="/institutional-recovery/back-up-key-material">
    The encrypt-and-store API integration.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Add CoinCover as a backup key" href="/institutional-recovery/add-a-backup-key">
    Make CoinCover part of your multi-sig or MPC setup.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Building a consumer wallet for end customers instead? See [Recover for Retail](/retail-recovery/overview).