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Pulse wallet is shutting down: move your funds before August 21
Pulse offers no key export, so every asset needs an on-chain transfer out before the app goes dark. A practical checklist, honest destination options, and three questions for picking your next wallet.
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Pulse users aren't trapped because of passkeys
The wrong lesson from the Pulse shutdown is that seedless wallets don't work. Whether you can recover your assets depends on how many programs recognize your account, not on whether your key is twelve words or a passkey.
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Vela is in alpha — what that means, and what we're asking of you
Vela works and holds real funds, but it's early software. Here's the honest version: why we say alpha, why to start with small amounts, and why the best thing you can do is read the code.
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Building Vela in public
Why we're documenting every step of building a self-custodial wallet that has no seed phrase — and what to expect from this blog.
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Why Vela has no seed phrase
Seed phrases are the single biggest cause of lost crypto. Here's why we replaced them with passkeys, and what we gave up to do it.
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