If you own any cryptocurrency and have secured it in a hardware or software wallet, you'll be familiar with your recovery phrase or seed phrase. A seed phrase is a list of 12 or 24 words generated from a list of 2048 unique words. It is essentially the password to access your crypto portfolio stored on a specific wallet.
Your seed phrase is most likely written on a piece of paper and hidden somewhere in your house. However, this seed phrase is essentially a password. If you lose this, or it is destroyed, you can lose access to your crypto. The question is, are you comfortable having the worth of your crypto investment guarded by a piece of paper? What if there was a house fire? Flooding? Burst pipe? The ink fades? Someone finds it and discards it unknowingly? Pets or pests come across it? And so on..
You need your phrases to be stored in an analogue manner, completely offline, in a material that can withstand whatever the elements or freak accidents can throw at it. In addition, if you were to ever need to recover your wallet, you need to be able to read these phrases back in the exact same order, letter for letter word for word.
At the same time, only you can imprint your phrases onto this material, since if you asked a company to engrave your phrases on a piece of metal, they now have seen your phrases.
So the solution has to be a kit, where you and only you can somehow store your seed phrases in a permanent manner.
Our solution is the Attenuo Seed Phrase Storage Plate with an included automatic centre punch which is used to permanently mark the steel. The plate is 3mm thick marine grade 316 stainless steel sheet with no moving parts, made in the UK.
The sheet has a grid physically etched into it (not just a surface mark) that allows you to use a centre punch to permanently indent your seed phrases into it.
It will survive house fires, corrosion, flooding.. pretty much whatever you can throw at it in order to secure your seed phrases for life.