Crypto Asset Recovery

What Crypto Asset Recovery does

Crypto Asset Recovery is a Durham, New Hampshire-based LLC founded in 2017 by Chris Brooks, a security-systems veteran with prior experience at Fidelity and Carescout, and joined in 2021 by his son Charlie Brooks as CTO. The firm provides non-custodial recovery services for individuals and estates who have lost access to cryptocurrency wallets through forgotten passwords, partial or mis-ordered seed phrases, or old encrypted wallet files. Its core technology is offline, air-gapped infrastructure running custom brute-force and dictionary-based password-generation algorithms, combined with BIP39 mnemonic reconstruction, to test millions of candidate credentials against encrypted wallet backups without ever taking custody of client funds.

The company supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Solana, Tron, NFTs, and dozens of other cryptocurrencies across wallet platforms including Blockchain.com, Bitcoin Core, Electrum, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Phantom Wallet, and MyEtherWallet, and also handles inherited-wallet estate cases with documentation formatted for legal counsel and cross-chain misdirected-transaction advisory. Pricing is contingency-based at roughly 20% of recovered funds with no fee charged if recovery fails; the company claims a 62.5% success rate on cases accepted for work. Distribution is entirely direct via the company website contact form, with no resellers or channel partners, and awareness is driven by 100+ earned media features across BBC, Forbes, VICE, The Boston Globe, and Business Insider, plus an SEO-focused Knowledge Center and 65+ verified customer testimonials.

The business is a founder-owned, self-funded LLC with no institutional investment, no board, and a headcount of 1-10, operating on a high-margin contingency model in which revenue scales with the value and frequency of accepted cases rather than subscription or seat-based pricing.

Name

Crypto Asset Recovery

Legal name

CRYPTOASSETRECOVERY.COM, LLC

Website

https://cryptoassetrecovery.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Crypto Asset Recovery is a New Hampshire-based LLC founded in 2017 that recovers forgotten passwords, partial seed phrases, and encrypted wallet files for individual crypto holders and estates on a contingency-fee basis. The company operates non-custodially using offline brute-force and BIP39 reconstruction algorithms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cryptocurrency Wallet Recovery Services

akta.pro primary industry

Recovery, Backup & Key Escrow (Social/Enterprise Recovery) (FSADACAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Recovery & Inheritance Solutions (social recovery services, dead-man switches, key escrow) (FSAPACAK)

Keywords

• Cryptocurrency wallet recovery
• Password recovery services
• Seed phrase reconstruction
• Blockchain wallet recovery
• Crypto inheritance services

Headquarters

HQ city

Durham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Success-Fee Wallet Recovery: The primary revenue stream is a percentage-based success fee deducted directly from the recovered wallet. If no recovery occurs, no fee is charged — no upfront costs, no subscription. The fee percentage is agreed upon before work begins. Multiple customer reviews reference approximately 20% of recovered funds as the standard fee.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Crypto Asset Recovery recovers access to non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets for individual holders who have forgotten passwords, lost or partially remember seed phrases, or inherited crypto from deceased family members. The service uses proprietary brute-force and dictionary-based algorithms on offline, air-gapped servers to generate and test millions of candidate passwords against encrypted wallet files, supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, Litecoin, Dogecoin, NFTs, and dozens of other cryptocurrencies across major wallet platforms. Pricing is contingency-based: a percentage of recovered funds (commonly cited at ~20%) is deducted directly from the recovered wallet, and no fee is charged if recovery fails.

Product overview

Crypto Asset Recovery offers a single, focused recovery service for non-custodial crypto wallets. The company provides three core services: forgotten password recovery (using brute-force algorithms), partial seed phrase reconstruction (for BIP39 12/24-word phrases), and inherited wallet estate recovery. They support multiple blockchain networks (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, Litecoin, Dogecoin) and work with major wallet platforms including Bitcoin Core, Blockchain.com, Electrum, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Phantom Wallet, StrongCoin, Mycelium, Multibit, and MyEtherWallet. The company also provides cross-chain transaction advisory services. All recovery is non-custodial — the company never takes possession of client funds. Pricing is contingency-based: a percentage of recovered assets, with no fee if recovery fails.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Forgotten Password Recovery Brute-force password recovery for encrypted non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets. Customers provide password fragments and themes (e.g., partial passwords, patterns, things they remember), and Crypto Asset Recovery generates millions of candidate passwords to systematically test against the encrypted wallet backup. Supports Bitcoin Core, Blockchain.com, Electrum, StrongCoin, and other wallet formats. Available to individual crypto holders who have lost access to wallets they still possess.
• Partial Seed Phrase Recovery Recovery service for wallets with missing or mis-ordered words in a 12 or 24-word BIP39 seed phrase. The service uses the BIP39 wordlist to reconstruct valid combinations and tests them against the wallet. Available to individual crypto holders with a partial memory or written record of their recovery phrase.
• Inherited Wallet Recovery Estate and inheritance recovery service that helps families locate and recover access to cryptocurrency wallets left behind by deceased relatives, producing documentation "lawyers understand" for legal and probate purposes. Aimed at estate executors, surviving family members, and legal representatives handling digital asset inheritance.
• Cross-Chain Transaction Recovery Advisory Advisory service for recovering funds lost in cross-chain transactions, such as sending Bitcoin to a Bitcoin Cash address. The team helps clients work with exchanges to retrieve mistakenly sent funds. Available to individual crypto holders who have lost assets due to user error in cross-chain sends.

Quantifiable outcome

• 62.5% of accepted wallets are successfully recovered
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Wallet Recovery Services: Founded by Dave Bitcoin, Wallet Recovery Services is one of the earliest and best-known crypto wallet password recovery specialists. Directly comparable to Crypto Asset Recovery in offering brute-force recovery for forgotten wallet passwords across major cryptocurrencies.
• KeychainX: Specialist crypto wallet recovery firm offering password and seed phrase recovery for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other chains. Competes head-to-head with Crypto Asset Recovery for the same forgotten-credential customer segment.
• ReWallet: Crypto wallet recovery service that uses GPU-accelerated brute-force tooling to recover lost wallet passwords. Operates in the same niche with a similar contingency-based pricing model.
• Brute Brothers: Small specialist firm focused on brute-force wallet password recovery, particularly for legacy wallet formats. Closely comparable service offering and target customer base to Crypto Asset Recovery.

Emerging players

• Unciphered: Cryptocurrency security and recovery firm that combines wallet recovery with broader security research and vulnerability disclosure. Overlaps with Crypto Asset Recovery on the recovery use case but extends into broader crypto security services.
• Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe): Smart-contract wallet infrastructure with built-in social recovery and multi-sig recovery mechanisms. Competes indirectly by offering proactive recovery design at the wallet layer rather than reactive password cracking.

Broad incumbents

• Coincover: UK-based crypto asset protection platform offering theft protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity for crypto businesses. Addresses a related but broader problem space and serves institutional and exchange clients rather than individual wallet holders.
• Casa: Self-custody platform offering multi-signature bitcoin vaults with built-in key recovery and inheritance features. Competes indirectly by reducing the likelihood that customers ever need a recovery service in the first place.
• BitGo: Institutional digital asset custodian that addresses the lost-access problem upstream by holding assets in qualified custody. Represents a fundamentally different model but competes for the same end-customer need of not losing crypto.
• Ledger: Leading hardware wallet manufacturer whose devices include optional seed phrase backup and recovery features (e.g., Ledger Recover via third-party custodians). Adjacent in that better recovery tooling reduces demand for reactive recovery services.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/watch?v=7wHPW6v87NY
• Xx.com/recover_crypto
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crypto-asset-recovery

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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