Distributed wallet recovery

Lost wallet, found by the fleet.

Forgot the password to a crypto wallet? Distribrute spreads the guessing across a fleet of everyday GPUs and CPUs until one of them lands it. You pay 15% only if it works — and the machines doing the work never get your wallet, just a piece of it that can test passwords but can't touch your money.

The three sides

One recovery, three sides.

A locked wallet gets back to its owner because three groups each do one simple job — and money only changes hands if it works.

1 · The wallet owner

You're locked out. You ask for help.

You've lost the password to a wallet that still holds funds. You hand us the wallet — or, if you prefer, just a safe piece of it that passwords can be tested against, but that can't be used to access the wallet. You never share your seed phrase or keys, and you pay 15% only if we get you back in.

2 · The operators

Spare computers test the guesses.

People with idle GPUs and CPUs run our software. Each machine gets a batch of password guesses to try — never your wallet, never anything that could move your money. Whoever's machine lands the right password earns 10%.

3 · Distribrute (us)

We connect the two — safely.

We turn the wallet into that safe, testable piece, split the search into batches, hand them out, and double-check any winning password against the real wallet before anyone is paid. We move the recovered funds to you and keep 5%.

On success the owner pays 15%10% to the operator who found it, 5% to us. If the wallet isn't recovered, nobody pays anything.

Two ways to recover

Custodial or non-custodial — your call.

The fleet is trustless either way. The choice is how much you hand to us versus keep yourself — a trade between convenience and custody.

Custodial

Hand it over. We do everything.

Send us the encrypted wallet. We crack it, recover the funds, and send your share to the receiving address you gave us at intake. Set-and-forget — your recovery doesn't depend on you being reachable months or years later.

  • Fastest — operators prioritize these
  • Nothing to run, nothing to sign later
  • You trust Distribrute to settle honestly
Non-custodial

Keep your wallet. We never receive it.

A quick local step turns your wallet into a check-only extract — a snippet that passwords can be tested against but that can't be used to access the wallet — and only that is sent. When we crack it, the funds move in a short guided session: your wallet stays on your machine and the balance lands directly with you. We never touch your wallet, your seed, or your keys.

  • We never receive your wallet at all
  • Settled live in a guided session
  • Worked by default — just lower priority
Pricing

15% total fee. 10% goes to the operator who found it. 5% covers our infrastructure and ops.

Charged only when a recovery is successful. No fee if we don't find it. The split is fixed and visible to every party at every step.

total
15%
operator
10%
us
5%
Why it's safe

The fleet never sees your wallet.

Before any work goes out, the wallet is reduced to a safe piece — enough for the fleet to test passwords, but missing the parts that actually hold your coins. The safety is built into the math, not a promise you have to take on faith.

01

A safe test piece

The fleet gets just enough to recognize the right password — a scrambled piece that can't be used to access the wallet — never the keys that hold your funds.

02

Finding it ≠ taking it

Whoever finds your password still can't move a coin, because the parts that actually control the funds were never sent to them. Your wallet stays on your side; only Distribrute settles.

03

Open and checkable

The format of that safe piece is open-source — anyone can see exactly what it contains. The software checks that every job matches it, so a real wallet can't be slipped through in disguise.

Two hardware classes

GPU or CPU — both pull their weight.

The agent checks what your machine is good at and only sends it work it can run fast. Different wallets favor different hardware.

GPU-optimal
Consumer GPUs

Most wallets test passwords with fast, repetitive math — exactly what GPUs are built for. An RTX card rips through millions of guesses a second.

CPU-optimal
High-bandwidth CPUs

A few wallets — like Armory and Coinomi — use memory-heavy math where a high-RAM Threadripper or EPYC beats a GPU.

Step by step

What happens after you submit.

01
Submit

You send in the locked wallet. We turn it into the safe test piece and queue it for the fleet.

02
Split the work

We break the password search into small batches, each sized for the kind of computer that runs it fastest.

03
Test the guesses

Operators run our software. Batches go out, passwords get tested, and any match comes back to us for double-checking.

04
Get your funds

When a match is confirmed, your recovered funds are sent to the address you gave us, minus the 15% fee. The operator whose machine found it earns 10%, paid in the wallet's own coin.

Supported wallets

Twelve supported wallet types.

These are the wallets where finding the password never exposes the keys — so the fleet can crack them safely. Don't see yours? Ask us.

Submit a case

Recover a wallet you lost access to.

Pick custodial or non-custodial, tell us the wallet format, and we'll guide you through intake. Pay only on success.

Submit a case
Apply to operate

Put your idle GPU or CPU to work.

Run the agent. Bring KYC. Take 10% of any wallet your hardware cracks.

Apply to run compute