The workbook
Finding wallets you already own
No tool can scan the world and discover wallets in your name — a wallet is only findable through something you still hold: an address, an app, a backup, an account or a paper phrase. This is the search that actually works, in order. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.
Before you start: anyone offering to recover your crypto for a fee is running a scam, without exception. Never type or photograph your 12 or 24 words, and never let anyone view your screen while you search.
- Which year did you buy, and roughly how much?
- Which app, exchange or website did you use? Even a logo or colour helps.
- Which phone, laptop or tablet were you using at the time?
- Did anyone set it up for you or help you?
- Search every inbox you own for: wallet, seed, backup, Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Blockchain.com, MetaMask, Phantom, Exodus, Trust Wallet, Ledger, Trezor.
- Search for 'deposit confirmed', 'withdrawal', 'verify your identity' and old receipts.
- Check spam, archive and any address you no longer use day to day.
- Look through installed apps on old phones and tablets, including ones in a drawer.
- On computers, search files for names ending in .json, .dat or 'wallet' and folders named keystore.
- Check browser extensions and saved logins in your browser and password manager.
- Check cloud backups: iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, old external drives.
- Look for a card or slip with 12 or 24 handwritten words — that is a recovery phrase.
- Check safes, filing cabinets, books, safety deposit boxes and anything you gave to family for safekeeping.
- A hardware device (a small USB-like stick) counts as a find too.
- For any exchange you might have used, start a password reset with each of your email addresses.
- If the account exists you will get a reset or a 'no account found' message — both are useful answers.
- Exchanges have real support and real account recovery. This is often where forgotten balances turn up.
- Every address you find goes in the list below, with a note about where it came from.
- Open each one in its explorer to see the balance, the tokens and every transfer.
- Follow outgoing transfers: they often lead to another wallet you also controlled.
- Set up a fresh wallet, or a hardware device, before moving anything.
- Write the new recovery phrase on paper and store it safely.
- Send a tiny test amount first, confirm it lands, then move the rest.
Your address list
Add each public address you turn up. Keystone works out which network it belongs to and gives you a direct link to look up its balance, tokens and full history. Public addresses only — never a private key or recovery phrase.
Nothing saved yet. Addresses you add appear here.