What Is a Seed Phrase?

A seed phrase can look almost too simple to protect a cryptocurrency wallet: a short list of ordinary words written on a piece of paper. Yet for a self-custody wallet, that list can be the difference between being able to recover access and being locked out for good.The reason is easy to misunderstand. A seed phrase does not contain your Bitcoin, Ether or other crypto. Those assets remain recorded on their respective blockchains. What the phrase does is provide the starting point from which a wa