Cryptoassetrecovery

What Cryptoassetrecovery does

Crypto Asset Recovery is a privately-held LLC founded in 2017 by Chris Brooks in Durham, New Hampshire, operating a niche service that recovers access to non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets when owners have forgotten passwords or lost seed phrases. The company's core offering is a manual, human-in-the-loop recovery process executed on air-gapped computer infrastructure physically disconnected from the internet, using proprietary brute-force algorithms engineered by CTO Charles Brooks (who joined in 2021 as a Computer Science graduate of the University of Vermont). The platform supports 500+ wallet types and assets across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, and BNB Chain ecosystems, covering wallets such as Bitcoin Core, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Blockchain.com, Phantom, Electrum, and legacy MultiBit.

The business operates on a performance-based pricing model: a 19-20% success fee on the total liquid value of recovered wallets, collected on-chain directly from the wallet prior to credential handover, with zero upfront cost to the client under a 'No Recovery, No Fee' guarantee. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct-to-consumer, with customers initiating contact via website consultation form, phone, or email; demand generation is driven primarily by sustained earned-media coverage (BBC, Forbes, VICE, The Block, Business Insider, CoinDesk), radio mentions, SEO-optimized wallet-specific landing pages, and word-of-mouth from a claimed base of 10,000+ clients and 4.9/5 review profile across 2,847 verified reviews.

The company is differentiated operationally by its publicly identified founders (a rarity in an industry dominated by anonymity and scams), compliance posture (GDPR and CCPA/CPRA), and an air-gapped security architecture that ensures wallet credentials never traverse the internet during recovery. Strategically the firm remains a family business with no disclosed external funding, no institutional customers, and no headcount beyond the two co-founders — a structural constraint that defines both its lean unit economics and its limited capacity for rapid scaling.

Name

Cryptoassetrecovery

Legal name

CRYPTOASSETRECOVERY.COM, LLC

Website

https://cryptoassetrecovery.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Crypto Asset Recovery is a New Hampshire-based, family-owned service that recovers forgotten passwords and lost seed phrases for 500+ non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets using air-gapped brute-force infrastructure, serving individual crypto holders on a 20% success-fee basis with no upfront cost.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cryptocurrency Wallet Recovery Services

NAICS

Locksmiths (561622)

SIC

Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Smart Contract Wallets / Account Abstraction (MPC/AA, social recovery, paymasters) (FSAPACAB), Self-Custody Wallets (EOA, seed phrase, HD wallets) (FSAPACAA)

Keywords

• Crypto wallet recovery
• Password recovery services
• Seed phrase recovery
• Blockchain asset recovery
• Cryptocurrency forensics

Headquarters

HQ city

Durham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Performance-Based Recovery Fee: 20% success fee calculated on total liquid assets inside the recovered wallet at time of recovery. Includes tokens across all blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, others) and stablecoins. Fee is withdrawn directly from the wallet on-chain before handover. No upfront costs, no consultation fees, no processing charges. If recovery fails, client owes nothing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Cryptoassetrecovery provides offline cryptocurrency wallet password and seed phrase recovery services using air-gapped servers. The service supports 500+ wallet types and assets across major blockchains, helping individual holders regain access to locked or forgotten digital assets through brute-force password recovery and seed phrase reconstruction.

Product overview

Cryptoassetrecovery is a cryptocurrency wallet recovery service provider founded in 2017 by Chris Brooks and Charles Brooks in New Hampshire, USA. The company operates a single core product — their Crypto Wallet Recovery Service — which uses air-gapped, offline computer infrastructure to recover forgotten passwords and lost seed phrases for cryptocurrency wallets. They support 500+ wallet types and multiple blockchain networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Tron, and BNB Chain. The service is structured around specific supported wallet types (Bitcoin Core, Blockchain.com, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Coinbase DeFi Wallet, Mycelium, MultiBit, Phantom, Electrum) and blockchain-specific recovery services. The company charges a 20% success fee with zero upfront costs ('No Recovery, No Fee' model) and maintains a claimed 98% success rate with over 10,000 wallets recovered since inception.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Crypto Wallet Recovery Service Core service providing offline password and seed phrase recovery for 500+ cryptocurrency wallet types and major blockchain assets, targeted at individual crypto holders who have lost access to their wallets.
• Bitcoin Core Wallet Recovery Specialized password and wallet.dat recovery for Bitcoin Core wallet users who have lost access to their original Bitcoin client wallets.
• MetaMask Wallet Recovery Recovery service for MetaMask browser-extension and mobile wallet users who have forgotten their password but retain some information about the seed phrase.
• Blockchain.com Wallet Recovery Password recovery for Blockchain.com wallet users who have lost access to their legacy wallet accounts.
• Trust Wallet Recovery Recovery support for Trust Wallet mobile users with forgotten passwords and partial seed phrase information.
• Phantom Wallet Recovery Password recovery for Phantom Solana wallet users who have forgotten their wallet passwords.
• Electrum Wallet Recovery Password recovery for Electrum Bitcoin wallet users who have lost access to their wallet files.
• Coinbase DeFi Wallet Recovery Password recovery for Coinbase DeFi (Toshi) wallet users who have lost access to their non-custodial wallet credentials.
• MultiBit Wallet Recovery Password recovery for MultiBit Classic and MultiBit HD wallet users with forgotten wallet passwords.
• Mycelium Wallet Recovery Password recovery for Mycelium mobile Bitcoin wallet users who have lost access to their wallet credentials.

Quantifiable outcome

• $2.1B+ recovered for clients since 2017
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Dave Bitcoin: Specialized Bitcoin wallet password recovery service using brute-force methods on wallet.dat and similar files. Closely comparable in technical approach (offline password cracking) and target customer (early Bitcoin adopters).
• ReWallet: Crypto wallet recovery service focused on forgotten passwords and seed phrases across major wallets. Direct peer operating in the same niche with comparable service model and success-based fee structure.
• Wallet Recovery Services: Long-established crypto wallet password recovery service operating in the same niche with brute-force techniques across multiple wallet types. Directly comparable offering, business model (success-fee based), and target customer base (individual crypto holders locked out of wallets).
• Bitcoin Recovery Co: Bitcoin-focused wallet recovery service specializing in forgotten passwords for legacy and modern Bitcoin wallets. Directly comparable offering for the same customer segment with similar brute-force methodology.
• CryptoRecover.com: Cryptocurrency wallet password recovery service supporting multiple wallets and blockchains. Direct peer in the recovery service category with overlapping target market and technical approach.
• KeychainX: Crypto wallet and seed phrase recovery service supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other chains with similar success-fee pricing. Direct competitor in the same product category with overlapping wallet coverage and target market.

Emerging players

• Unchained Capital: Bitcoin financial services company offering collaborative custody with multi-signature key management that materially reduces lockout risk. Comparable in the wallet security/management space but positioned as prevention rather than recovery.
• Casa: Self-custody provider using multi-sig and key sharding to eliminate single-point-of-failure loss. Adjacent in the wallet key management space but competes with CAR's addressable demand by preventing the lockout problem.

Broad incumbents

• Ledger: Largest hardware wallet manufacturer with broad retail distribution. Not a direct recovery competitor but operates in the same self-custody ecosystem and shapes the security posture of users who may eventually need recovery services.
• Trezor: Established hardware wallet manufacturer offering secure self-custody solutions. Broad incumbent in the wallet security category that indirectly affects CAR's addressable market through its recovery seed approach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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