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Read how Cove works.

Start with the guides to set up your wallet and card. Read the whitepapers to see exactly how your keys are split, how recovery works and how Cove Shield decides what to block.

Guides

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Getting started with Cove Wallet

User guide, 14 pages, PDF

From installing the app to your first payment: your recovery key, your PIN, contacts, Save on your Cove Card, a co-signer and the 3-day hold, Trade and Earn, the duress wallet, and what to do if you lose something.

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The Cove Key

User guide, 7 pages, PDF

Your recovery keys as 12 short rows instead of 24 words: how to write or stamp them into steel, where to keep them, and how to restore, by hand too.

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Whitepapers

The design, in full

Split-Authority Custody: hot and cold storage with self-recovery

Cove Wallet whitepaper, 28 pages, PDF

How Cove splits authority between your phone, your Cove Card and your written keys; how Save, co-signers, the duress wallet and recovery work; and what Cove can and can't do with your assets.

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Chainhound: endpoint detection and response for the XRP Ledger

Chainhound and Cove Shield whitepaper, 12 pages, PDF

How Cove finds attacks on the ledger as they happen, why a person approves every block, how signed lists reach every wallet, and how the wallet enforces them.

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