At a glance
Backup
Backup is a one-time setup, created in a short key ceremony once your Copper agreement and CoinCover Control onboarding are in place. The ceremony itself takes only a few minutes.1
Agree a time for the key ceremony
Pick a suitable time with Copper and CoinCover for the key ceremony — the short, coordinated session where your backup is created.
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Join the key ceremony
In the ceremony, CoinCover creates and securely backs up an encrypted copy of your Copper shard. It takes around ten minutes per key, and CoinCover runs the process with you and Copper — there’s no tooling for you to set up.
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Your backup goes live
CoinCover stores your encrypted backup offline in our secure vault and confirms when it’s live. From that point, your Copper Vault is protected and ready to recover, and the backup appears in CoinCover Control.
CoinCover only ever holds an encrypted backup shard — never enough on its own to move your assets. A recovery always needs your own shard (or Copper’s) together with the one CoinCover releases, and it only happens once your approvers in Control have signed off.
Recovery
Recovery is for an emergency — a lost shard or password, or Copper being unavailable. It’s requested and gated through CoinCover Control: anyone on your team can raise a request, but nothing is released until your approvers sign off. Once released, you regain access with Copper’s Copper Recovery tool.1
Request recovery through CoinCover Control
Raise a recovery request in CoinCover Control and select the backup to recover. As part of the request you supply a public GPG key, which CoinCover uses to encrypt the released material so it’s protected in transit. New to GPG? See Create a GPG key pair.
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Your approvers sign off
The named approvers on the backup are asked to approve, each re-verifying their identity as they vote. Nothing is released until a simple majority has approved.
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CoinCover releases your backup shard
Because your Copper backup is held offline, CoinCover’s team retrieves it before releasing — Control tells you this is happening and notifies you when the encrypted download is ready. You download it and decrypt it locally with your GPG private key.
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Regenerate your key with Copper Recovery
Copper Recovery needs any two of the three shards — the one CoinCover released, together with your own (or one from your Copper Account Manager). Upload both shard files, enter the password protecting each, and the tool generates the private key for your wallet addresses in seconds.
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Withdraw your assets
Use the generated private key to move your assets — import it into another wallet app, or use it to sign a transaction out of your Copper Vault.
Recover key material through CoinCover Control
The step-by-step recovery walkthrough in Control — raising the request, gathering approvals, and collecting the released material.
What’s next
BitGo
Backup and recovery across the BitGo self-custody wallet, including its key-ceremony flow.
Fordefi
The console-based backup flow and key-return recovery for the Fordefi self-custody MPC wallet.
Fireblocks
The workspace and device-share backup flows for the Fireblocks MPC workspace.
Partners overview
All CoinCover partner integrations.