Your phone is gone. Stolen, broken, left in a cab — doesn't matter. Your nimimo identity, your wallet, your addresses — they were on that device. If this were a traditional self-custody wallet, you'd be reaching for that piece of paper with 24 words on it. If it were a custodial exchange, you'd be filing a support ticket and waiting days.
With nimimo, you grab your recovery card. Here's exactly what happens next.
Step 1: Open nimimo on any device
Go to nimimo.com on any browser — phone, tablet, laptop, borrowed computer. You don't need to install anything. You don't need to log in first. The restore flow is accessible right from the start.
This is intentional. If you've lost your phone, you may not have access to your email either. Recovery doesn't depend on login. It's a separate layer.
Step 2: Scan or upload your recovery card
If you have the physical PDF, use your camera to scan the QR code. If you saved the PDF digitally — in your email, on a drive — upload it directly. nimimo reads the encrypted data from the QR code automatically.
Step 3: Enter your PIN
Type in the PIN or password you chose when you created the recovery card. If it's correct, your wallet unlocks. If it's wrong, nimimo tells you immediately — no ambiguity.
The encryption is designed to be slow on purpose — each wrong guess takes about a second. This makes brute-forcing impractical even for short PINs. A strong password is effectively unbreakable.
Step 4: You're back
Once decrypted, nimimo sets up your wallet on the new device with fresh encryption tied to this specific device. Your addresses are re-derived. Your handle is reconnected. Same name, same addresses, same wallet.
That's it. Your identity is live on the new device. Balances appear as soon as you open the wallet page. Thirty seconds, no support ticket, no waiting period.
What about the old device?
The old device still has the encrypted wallet in its storage — assuming the data wasn't wiped. If someone finds your phone and opens nimimo, they can see your handle and public addresses (which are public anyway). They cannot send transactions because the wallet is locked with a key that only exists on that specific device.
There's no remote wipe to perform. There's nothing to revoke. The architecture doesn't need it — the encrypted data on the old device is useless without the device's unique key.
The takeaway
Losing a device is annoying. With nimimo, it's not a crisis. A recovery card fits in an email, a drawer, a safe. And when you need it, the entire restore takes less time than resetting a password.