The words we use, in plain English.

B

Base

The Ethereum network, built by Coinbase, where your savings live. Network fees there are cents, and Fortcore pays them for you.

C

Close to my exchange

A return you start from a phone that has been active for 7 days. Everything goes home in 72 hours, and only that phone can stop it.More

D

Daily amount

What can leave at once in a day to addresses you have paid before: $1,000 by default, and never more than 10% of your savings.More

E

Exit kit

Open tools that do one thing, send everything home, from the app, the web or the command line, with no Fortcore server needed.More

F

FortCard

Fortcore's NFC card, bought once for $59. It co-signs large withdrawals, locks your vault from any NFC phone and lets a new phone send in 12 hours instead of 48.More

G

Guardian

Fortcore's role on your vault with Protect or Private. Within fixed limits it can lock your vault, cancel withdrawals and start a return home, but it never signs a transfer.More

H

Half rule

More than half of an asset, counted together with what is pending and what left in the last three days, waits 72 hours. Splitting it up buys nothing.More

Home

The account your savings go back to when something goes wrong: normally your exchange's Base deposit address, with an optional second one such as a hardware wallet.More

I

Inactivity return

If your phone shows no activity for the period you choose, 12 months by default, a 30-day return sends your savings home. Any activity cancels it.More

Interceptor

Fortcore's screening role with Protect. It cancels transfers to flagged addresses and marks tainted deposits, and it can't move money.More

K

Keep

The one contract per vault that holds every rule and checks every signature. It is never upgraded.More

Known address

One of your homes, or an address your savings have paid through a completed wait. Receiving money from an address never makes it known.More

L

Lock

Stops all withdrawals and cancels pending ones until a phone unlocks the vault and 24 hours pass. A lock ends by itself after 14 days unless it is renewed, at most twice.More

M

Marked amount

Money from a flagged deposit, marked with Protect. It never leaves at once and never goes to an exchange without your choice.More

P

Phone key

The key in your phone's secure chip that opens only with your enrolled face or fingerprint. It is the only key that can send money.More

R

Restore key

A passkey in your iCloud Keychain or Google Password Manager. It can only add a phone, which waits 48 hours, or send everything home, which waits 7 days.More

S

Safe

The smart-account contracts that hold your savings, widely used by funds and organisations. Fortcore seals yours so only its own contract can move money.More

Seed phrase

The 12 or 24 words most wallets use as a backup of their key. Fortcore doesn't use one.

Self-custody

Holding crypto at an address only your own keys control, rather than on an exchange that holds it for you.

Send everything home

A return you start with your cloud passkey from any device. Everything goes home in 7 days, and only a phone that was already active for 7 days when it started can stop it.More

Strict settings

Free, optional rules that make your vault slower and harder to move. They take effect at once and can be turned off only after 7 days.More

T

Tainted deposit

Money sent to your vault from a sanctioned, hacked, draining or mixing source. Anyone can send it; Fortcore warns you, and with Protect marks it.More

Threat network

The addresses Fortcore customers have confirmed as scams. The app warns you about them before you sign, and with Protect they are cancelled during a wait.More

Trusted contact

Someone you choose, with Protect or Private, who gets your alerts and can lock your vault or cancel a withdrawal, but never unlock, withdraw or change settings.More

W

Wind-down

What happens if Fortcore shuts down: a public 30-day notice, then every vault's 90-day return to its verified home, carried out by an independent operator.More