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The playbook for institutional wallet disaster recovery.

Discover expert strategies, tools, and resources to help your firm protect its digital assets, manage its risks, and be ready to recover with confidence.

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Digital asset wallet risks can seriously harm a firm: lost access, compromised keys, and continuity plans that fail in practice can damage operations and reputation.

As a result, CIOs, COOs, and board members are facing tough questions:

Can we demonstrate continued access to our assets if systems fail or we’re attacked?
Do we satisfy the regulatory requirements for operational resilience?
Would we be able to recover access to our wallet right now?

The CoinCover Recovery Playbook is designed to help firms navigate the difficult – but essential decisions – around protecting wallet access against disasters.

Are you recovery ready?

What would happen if your firm lost access to their wallets?

Answer these questions to benchmark your firm’s disaster recovery readiness.

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What the regulators say about recovery

Operational resilience is a regulatory hot topic. Explore how different regions approach compliance, risk management, and consumer protection.

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MiCA
Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation

Articles 67 & 68 require that crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) maintain systems that guarantee asset accessibility even in the event of IT failures or third-party outages.

Wallet access and continuity must be provable to regulators and clients.

DORA
Digital Operational Resilience Act

Applies to crypto firms operating in or serving the EU.

Requires institutions to design, test, and report on recovery procedures for all “critical ICT systems,” including key management infrastructure.

FCA Operational Resilience
(SYSC 15A)

Requires institutions to design, test UK-regulated firms must identify their important business services and ensure they can remain within impact tolerances during disruption, and report on recovery procedures for all “critical ICT systems,” including key management infrastructure.

SEC & FINRA
(US)

For digital asset advisers and broker-dealers, regulators now expect a clear business continuity plan that includes asset access controls, backups, and third-party recovery accountability.

MiCA
Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation

Articles 67 & 68 require that crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) maintain systems that guarantee asset accessibility even in the event of IT failures or third-party outages.

Wallet access and continuity must be provable to regulators and clients.

DORA
Digital Operational Resilience Act

Applies to crypto firms operating in or serving the EU.

Requires institutions to design, test, and report on recovery procedures for all “critical ICT systems,” including key management infrastructure.

FCA Operational Resilience
(SYSC 15A)

Requires institutions to design, test UK-regulated firms must identify their important business services and ensure they can remain within impact tolerances during disruption, and report on recovery procedures for all “critical ICT systems,” including key management infrastructure.

SEC & FINRA
(US)

For digital asset advisers and broker-dealers, regulators now expect a clear business continuity plan that includes asset access controls, backups, and third-party recovery accountability.

A compliant wallet recovery plan should be:

Structured:
Built on defined roles, protocols, and decision trees

When something goes wrong in crypto, the hardest part is knowing what to do first, who decides, and how to move without losing time. The CoinCover Recovery Playbook sets out clear roles, escalation paths, and decision trees so your team can act fast and with confidence.

Redundant:
Eliminates single points of failure across infrastructure and personnel

Crypto recovery cannot depend on one person being available or one system behaving perfectly. The CoinCover Recovery Playbook is built to help you restore operations, with backup coverage across infrastructure, access, and approvals.

Verifiable:
Supports audit trails and regulator-required evidence

In regulated environments, restoring service is only part of the job. You also need to show what happened, what actions were taken, who approved them, and when. The CoinCover Recovery Playbook is designed to support that level of traceability, with steps that can be recorded, reviewed, and shared when evidence is required.

Tested:
Simulated regularly under real-world conditions

Crypto recovery plans fail in the small details. Testing is where those details surface. The CoinCover Recovery Playbook is guides you through realistic simulations so that teams can practice execution and pressure-test assumptions.

Accessible:
Enacted swiftly with 24/7 coverage and automated failovers

Crypto incidents don’t follow business hours. The CoinCover Recovery Playbook is designed for immediate execution, helping you build round-the-clock coverage, clear activation thresholds, and automated mechanisms that reduce manual dependency.

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PRACTICAL GUIDES
CoinCover recovery regulatory review

The CoinCover Digital Asset Recovery Regulatory Review is a practical overview of what regulators across key jurisdictions expect firms to demonstrate—strong private key controls, segregation and redundancy, tested recovery and continuity processes, and audit-ready evidence.

PRACTICAL GUIDES
The trust factor report

Check out our whitepaper which explores how the next wave of cryptocurrency regulation could reshape the industry. From strengthening investor confidence to raising the bar on platform accountability, we examine what regulation really means for institutions, builders, and the future of digital assets.

Blogs
Could your in-house crypto wallet backup land you in jail?
Could your in-house crypto wallet backup land you in jail?
Blogs
What keeps crypto exchanges up at night? Key threats in 2026
What keeps crypto exchanges up at night? Key threats in 2026
Video
Hot & cold storage explained

Institutions can’t afford downtime or permanent loss. This explainer breaks down hot vs cold storage for protecting wallet recovery material, and how CoinCover Recover for Institutions supports secure, governed recovery for institutional digital asset operations.

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CoinCover Recover for Institutions - what is it?

We provide hot and cold storage solutions, so you can choose which suits you best. We can also help you decide which is right for you. 

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Download the CoinCover Recovery Playbook

You need wallet recovery you can activate immediately, not a plan that sits on a shelf. The playbook shows you how 24/7 coverage, clear triggers, and automated failovers come together in a structured, verifiable framework for real world crypto operations.

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Don’t wait for a crisis to discover the gaps.

Disasters don’t wait. Neither should your recovery plan. At CoinCover, we help institutions move beyond “we’ve got backups” to battle-tested, regulator-ready recovery infrastructure.

Protecting digital assets since 2018.

At CoinCover, we help institutions move beyond “we’ve got backups” to battle-tested, regulator-ready recovery infrastructure.

We’re trusted for recoveries with a 100% success record.

From crypto-native platforms to institutional teams, organisations across the ecosystem rely on CoinCover to reduce downtime risk and strengthen operational resilience.

Our tech integrates seamlessly with your infrastructure.

CoinCover fits into existing custody, security, and operational workflows, adding resilient recovery controls without forcing a rebuild of your stack.

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Whether you’re building your recovery strategy from scratch or validating an existing one, this playbook gives you a clear, structured place to start.

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Is your institution prepared for wallet disaster recovery?

Answer these questions to benchmark your institutions readiness for a wallet disaster recovery scenario.

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