Non-Custodial Wallet
Ayrıca şöyle anılır self-custody wallet, non-custodial, unhosted wallet
A non-custodial wallet is one where the private keys controlling an account are generated and held on the user's own device, never on a server the wallet provider operates. The provider can build the interface, relay signed transactions, and show balances, but it cannot move funds, freeze an account, or hand keys to a subpoena, because it never has them in the first place. The alternative, a custodial wallet, like a typical exchange account, holds the keys on the user's behalf, which is more convenient (no seed phrase to lose) and strictly more fragile (if the custodian is hacked, freezes withdrawals, or collapses, the user's funds go with it).
The mechanism that makes non-custodial wallets usable at all is the seed phrase: instead of storing a separate secret for every account, the wallet derives every key it needs from one master secret (typically 12 or 24 words, standardized as BIP-39), generated and kept entirely on-device. Losing the seed phrase means losing the funds: there is no support desk that can reset it, because no one but the user ever held it. That tradeoff (sovereignty in exchange for zero safety net) is the whole reason social-recovery schemes exist as a separate feature layered on top, see the wallet's guardian-based recovery, which is a different mechanism from custody itself and not what this entry covers.
Who actually built this
Bitcoin's protocol never required a custodian, from Bitcoin Core's first release, a user's own client held the private key. The custodial/non-custodial distinction as a category users shop by grew out of the years that followed, once self-hosted wallets like Electrum (Thomas Voegtlin, 2011) existed side by side with custodial exchanges, and the 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox, which lost roughly 850,000 customers' bitcoin it had been holding, made the difference concrete rather than academic. Andreas M. Antonopoulos's line, "not your keys, not your coins," is the popular summary of the same lesson. None of this is Solidus's invention; BIP-39 seed phrases, client-side key generation, and the non-custodial category itself all predate Solidus by more than a decade.
Solidus today
Solidus Wallet (wallet.solidus.network) is live but self-labelled BETA. It follows the
non-custodial pattern: seed generation and transaction signing happen client-side with
standard BIP-39 mnemonics, and canon states the seed is designed never to reach a Solidus
server. That is a stated invariant of the architecture: it has not been independently
audited. An external security audit is the explicit gate on the wallet's consumer launch and
has not started. Selective-disclosure credential handling (BBS+) and guardian-based social
recovery are separate, adjacent features this entry does not cover, see their own Lexicon
entries.
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Bunu başkası belirtti. Solidus bir araya getiriyor.
The distinction predates any Solidus product by well over a decade. Bitcoin's original design (Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008–2009) never required an intermediary to hold funds, Bitcoin Core let a user's own machine hold the private key from day one. The vocabulary "custodial vs. non-custodial" crystallized as a practical wallet-shopping distinction once self-hosted software wallets, Electrum (Thomas Voegtlin, 2011) chief among them, existed alongside custodial exchanges, and the 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox (an exchange that lost ~850,000 customers' bitcoin it held on their behalf) made the difference matter to ordinary users, not just cryptographers. The phrase "not your keys, not your coins," popularized by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, is the ethos version of the same idea. Solidus did not invent client-side key generation, seed phrases, or the custodial/non-custodial category, it built a wallet that follows the non-custodial pattern, using standard BIP-39 seed phrases and client-side signing.
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Bugün üretimde çalışıyor.
None that a stranger can verify from outside the product without running it. What is checkable yourself: open wallet.solidus.network, start onboarding with your browser's network tab open, and watch the seed-phrase generation step, no request carrying the seed or derived private key should leave the browser. That's a real check anyone can run; it is not the same as an audit, and Solidus has not published one.