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How to set up a Digital Vault.
How to get the Vault12 app, create your own Digital Vault, and assign trusted Guardians to guard your Vault.
March 12 2023
Vault12 is a simple but powerful approach for protecting all of your digital assets including cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), documents, trade secrets, IDs, medical records, audio, and video or anything in digital form.
This guide will take you through the following steps to help you set up your Digital Vault:
- Download and install the Vault12 app.
- Configure the Vault.
- Assign Guardians.
To see how easy Vault12 is to set up and use, watch this video overview.
Download and Install
To download the Vault12 app, visit the Vault12 website or from your mobile device, open the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store and search for "Vault12," or click one of these links:
IMPORTANT: To make sure you are downloading the correct app - the Developer should be listed as "Vault12, Inc."
Configure your Vault
Once your app has successfully been installed, you can choose among 2 options :
- Create a new Vault
- Join someone else's Vault as a Guardian
- Restore an existing Vault (below the buttons)
You also can access Settings on the top right corner, to switch Language or access some other Advanced features.
To carry on and create a Vault, choose the first option. On the next screen, app informs you how it handles sign in with your Face ID and then by clicking Continue, you also accept the "Terms of Service" and "Privacy Policy".
Access to Contacts is used to help you select trusted people as Guardians. No Contact information is stored on Vault12 servers - only on the selected, trusted devices.Notifications are required so that you know when Guardians have responded to your future requests.
Then Vault creation starts and.. that's it! Super easy, just several clicks.
Now you can see your Vaults main screen. There are:
- Big tabs to swipe on top, with helpful articles on how to benefit most from using Vault12 with your digital assets,
- The navigation bar at the bottom to switch promptly between main app sections,
- And 3 main action buttons to interact with your Vault in between,
- Add assets to your Vault (like your "Web3 wallet"),
- Set up Guardians to your Vault - this is the main task to succeed with - add Guardians who will be enabled to help you with recovering your Vault in case of phone loss.
- Set up the inheritance - this is the unique achievement you can reach with Vault12 Guard - enable your decentralized crypto inheritance.
By using the bottom Navigation Bar, give a try to switch between Vault Home and Assets screens back and forth to become familiar with the space.
Add Guardians to your Vault
Now you are ready to move on with assigning Guardians, which will be enabled to help you recover your Vault in case of any accidents, like phone loss. These are usually a set of:
- trusted people from your friends/family network, like your spouse/partner, a close friend, or parent,
- additional device(s) under your control also might be assigned as Guardians, such as an iPad, additional or backup smartphone, or your modern Macbook with an M-series CPU that supports the installation of iOS applications.
Think a bit about who would be your first Guardians, eventually, you need at least 3 Guardians to finalize setup of the most safe and recommended schema. However, do not hesitate to start adding Guardians immediately, since you'd be able to add more or change the designated Guardians one-by-one later painlessly if you realize they are not the best fit or you changed/upgraded your additional device like iPad.
Now you will be asked to configure your Vault with your name and email address. Your contact information is used to allow your Guardians to respond to your future requests to Restore or Unlock your vault. This information is not stored on any Vault12 servers.
Now that your Vault is configured with basic information, you will be asked to subscribe to a trial plan.
Trials are free for the first 30 days, and you can choose any of the plans right now.
To use the Vault12 platform to protect your assets after the Trial period, you will need to activate a subscription plan that includes the ability to own a Vault. You can review what is included in each plan on the Vault12 download page.
Select free trial
Select preset 3/5
Select preset 7/10
Continue to 'Advanced" settings
Select 2/4 Guardians
Once you have made your selection, press "Next" and confirm. The number of Guardians cannot be changed once setup is complete, so this is an important step. You can, however always change which Guardians are assigned to your Vault by using the "Replace Guardian" option.
Select Guardians
There are two ways to add new Guardians:
- Invite trusted people from your inner circle.
- Enroll trusted mobile devices.
To invite people, click on "Send Invitation" and select someone from your Contact list - your Guardians must be in your Contact list. You can send out the link via email or text, or you can copy and paste the invitation to pass on to your Guardian through some other messaging app.
Send invitation
Choose Guardian from your contact list
Once you've invited your first Guardian, you will be asked to continue adding Guardians until you've invited the Total Number of Guardians that you selected earlier.
To enroll devices, download the Vault12 app onto the chosen device, and when you get to the "Get started" prompt, swipe to select the option "Join an existing Vault." Often people will enroll devices under their control, but this approach also works with devices controlled by other trusted people such as your lawyer or wealth manager.
Give the device a name - this is how the Guardian will be labelled in your Vault. Press "Next" to display the Vault12 QR code.
To assign this device to your Vault, switch back to your main device (the one on which you have been setting up your Vault), and choose the "Scan Device" option.
This will bring up a secure image scanner. Use this to scan the QR code displayed on your new Guardian device. This will enroll the device as a Guardian of your Vault.
Once all your Guardians have accepted the invitations you sent, your Vault setup is complete.
Now that the Vault setup is complete, the app will display how many days you have left in your free trial.
In addition, now that you have a Vault, you can do the following:
- Add assets including cryptocurrency seed phrases and other types of digital assets.
- Generate a cryptocurrency seed phrase.
- Assign a beneficiary Guardian to inherit your digital assets.
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March 12 2023
Inheritance: Get ready today.
Vault12 Digital Inheritance is the first solution to offer a simple, direct, and secure way to ensure cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other Web3 digital assets can be inherited by future generations.
Digital Inheritance enables investors to designate an individual or a mobile device as a guardian that will inherit their entire portfolio of digital assets (seed phrases,private keys, digital art and other secrets) inside a secure digital Vault once the time comes, eliminating undue risk and the need to continually update an inventory or issue updated instructions which result in privacy leakage.
Decentralized Self-Custody Backup.
Designed to be used alongside traditional hardware, software, and online wallets, Vault12 helps cryptocurrency owners, professional crypto traders, and high-net-worth investors safeguard their digital assets without storing anything in the cloud or in fact, any one single location. This increases protection and decreases the risks of loss.
The Vault12 app enables decentralized self-custody back up, and provide legacy inheritance for all your web3 digital assets, including NFTs, wallet seed phrases, secrets like keys, PIN codes, DAO project keys, and digital art.
Collectors, ensure your Art is protected for the future.
Whether your digital art is suitable for a phone, or represents much higher resolution multimedia, make sure that you have backed up a copy in case the resource link is disrupted in the future. Digital art can easily be added to the Vault either via the mobile app or via the desktop utility. Once you have stored your artwork in your Vault, it will also benefit from inheritance once you activate that in your app.
Creators, do you have creative security?
As a creator, you can use Vault12 to safeguard not just your NFT and crypto wallets but also your original digital artwork. Project creators will always have to deal with multiple wallets - inventory, treasury, as well as future royalty wallets.
Vault12 safeguards your project assets, increasing protection and decreasing the risks of loss whilst ensuring that everything is ready to be passed onto future generations when the need arises. This is creative security.
Learn
Step-by-step guides for setting up your digital Vault and adding assets, recovering assets, inheriting and restoring Vaults. Vault12 Web3 personal security helps you recover, back up, and inherit all assets stored in your Vault including Bitcoin, Ethereum, crypto, private keys, seed phrases, wallets, NFTs and digital art.
With the latest release of Vault12, now available in both iOS App Store and Google Play we have streamlined how you can use VGT to upgrade your Vault or fund your Vault for future. Right now there is a 50% discount on all plans if you fund your Vault with VGT.