Recovery seed

What is a recovery seed?

Your recovery seed (also known as seed, seed phrase, mnemonic, recovery phrase) is an ordered list of words that contains all information necessary for recovering your wallet (BTC funds).

It is very important that you keep your recovery seed private and safe, so that your cryptocurrency funds are never at risk.

Setting up your recovery seed

Including with your products are clear step-by-step instructions for setting up your recovery seed. The same procedures can be found here:

  • Trezor Model One

  • Trezor Model T

Keeping your recovery seed safe

All Trezor products ship with 2 x cards where you can write down your recovery seed during setup. If you wish to take extra steps to secure your recovery seed, you may want to invest in a more durable storage medium such as:

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