A safety net for your keys, passwords, and the things you can’t replace — split across people you trust, recoverable only by you. No blockchain required.
An estimated $100B+ in crypto is already lost for good. Lost wallets. Forgotten seed phrases. Dead hardware. There is no customer service line, no password reset, no recovery. It isn’t a bug — it’s the design. We can do better.
Your secret is mathematically split and distributed across helpers you choose. No single helper can see it — and you can recover it any time, on your own.
DeRec has just two parts — the owner of a secret, and the helpers who can help recreate it.
You — a person, an organization, an enterprise, or a government. Your secret can be a private key (Bitcoin or any digital asset), a stablecoin or real-world-asset wallet, a password, a passcode — any key worth keeping. If you can’t afford to lose it, DeRec can protect it.
People, institutions, or infrastructure you trust. Each holds one encrypted share — never your secret, never custody. You recover with a threshold of them, any time.
Membership is how the open DeRec standard stays interoperable, credible, and ahead. It comes with real engineering support and a real seat at the table.
Members get weekly implementation support — direct, working sessions with a senior Rust engineer who knows the reference library inside out. Go from spec to shipping integration without going it alone.
A neutral, open standard built on modern cryptography — free to implement and designed to work with any wallet or app. The DeRec Alliance behind it is an educational, non-profit, open-source organization advancing open scientific and technical standards.
For developers: the full technical standard, cryptographic detail, and reference implementation live at derec.org and on GitHub.
Non-profit. Neutral. Permanent. Help build the standard for recovery that belongs to everyone.