How to recover your data after a destruct wipe
Recover after a Vaultr destruct wipe using social recovery via guardians, an encrypted cloud backup, or device migration. There is no undo.
Quick answer: After a Vaultr destruct slot wipes your normal vault data, there is no “undo” — you restore your access and funds using one of three recovery paths: social recovery through your nominated guardians, an encrypted cloud backup restore, or device migration from another device that still holds your data. Recovery only works if you set up at least one of these beforehand.
Vaultr is a self-custody crypto super-app. A destruct slot intentionally wipes all of your normal vault data in a single operation when unlocked, while still showing a normal success response. That irreversibility is the point — it guarantees an attacker finds nothing real — but it also means recovery depends entirely on a backup or guardian setup you arranged in advance.
Why is there no “undo” for destruct?
A destruct slot is designed to destroy your normal vault data so a coercer can’t reach it. If destruct were reversible, it wouldn’t actually protect you — anyone who forced the wipe could just as easily force the undo. So Vaultr provides no undo of destruct itself.
Instead, you rebuild from a separate copy of your data that the wipe never touched.
This is why preparation matters: the recovery options below must exist before a destruct event, not after.
What are my recovery options after a destruct?
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