HandleWallet is an identity wallet: one place that gathers every handle you have verified, points fans to your current accounts, and keeps a copy of your content and community records so an account loss is a setback, not the end of your history. Accounts get hacked, handles get lost, platforms change. This page explains what's actually yours in that arrangement, and how to check it without taking our word for it.
A handle you have verified stays yours even if the platform account behind it is banned, hacked, or deleted. That is because verifying a handle gets you a signed attestation, a record that says you proved control of that account at a specific time, signed by HandleWallet's attestation key, and doesn't depend on the account still existing or on HandleWallet staying in business, because you can carry the signature yourself (see "Verify it yourself" below).
HandleWallet cannot read the posts, captions, and community records you back up, and neither can anyone who gets access to our database. They are encrypted in your browser before they ever reach our servers, using a key derived from your password, so we only ever store ciphertext. One click produces a full export: every item, every file, and the keys to decrypt them, all in a single archive. Every plan includes a full vault export once every 30 days; your first export and account-deletion export are always available immediately.
At signup, HandleWallet generates a keypair that belongs to you. Your public key is part of your wallet's public record; your private key is encrypted with your password and never leaves your device in the clear. That key is what signs your wallet: your profile, your handle list, and every attestation, bundled into one file only you could have produced.
Everything above is checkable, not just claimed. HandleWallet publishes the exact format your vault and wallet are stored in (the HandleWallet Vault Format, or HVF), precisely enough that someone with no access to our code could write their own reader. We also publish an open-source command-line tool that does exactly that: it decrypts a full export using your password or recovery key, and it verifies a signed wallet using nothing but the file itself and HandleWallet's published attestation key. Neither requires an account or a network request to HandleWallet.
If you want a page that works with no HandleWallet dependency at all, the dashboard also generates a self-host bundle: a single HTML file with your signed wallet built in, along with its own small script that checks the same signatures right there in the visitor's browser. Host it anywhere, or just open it locally. It shows the same verified handles your HandleWallet page does, and it proves it.
HandleWallet doesn't move your followers or grow an audience for you. It routes people who already know one of your handles to wherever you currently are, and it keeps a record so that routing survives account loss. The content you back up comes from the official export tools each platform already provides; we don't scrape or access your accounts directly.