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Liana uses advanced Bitcoin features to make your wallet safer and offer recovery options. It works with on-chain timelocks, so backup keys can activate after a certain period of inactivity (when you stop making transactions). You can set up two sets of keys (or more). The first set, called the Primary Key(s), the one you use regularly. After a set period of no activity (chosen during setup), a second set of keys, called the "Recovery keys”, becomes active and can recover your funds. You can have multiple sets of recovery keys. This way, you stay in full control of your bitcoin, with built-in safety features like backups and inheritance options.
Like any Bitcoin wallet: back up your seed phrases (one per signing key) and your wallet descriptor. The descriptor encodes your full spending policy. Without it, your funds may be unrecoverable even with the seeds.
Liana supports hot keys for testing, but you should use hardware signing devices for a secure setup.
Liana wallets use the standard Miniscript format. Bitcoin Core supports Liana wallets, and Nunchuk should support it too. More software will support Liana in the future as they implement Miniscript.
No. Each recovery key holder just needs to generate a key and share their extended public key (xpub) with you beforehand.
Liana supports only imports from existing Liana wallets at the moment.
Yes. You can switch between multiple wallets in the same app, each with its own spending policy and keys.
Yes. Liana lets you label individual coins (UTXOs) and choose exactly which coins to include in each transaction, giving you fine-grained control over your privacy and fund management.
Liana is a watch-only coordinator that stores no private keys. With your own Bitcoin node, all address lookups stay local. With Liana Connect, some wallet information is shared with Wizardsardine. Running your own node gives maximum privacy.
Neither. Liana is a watch-only coordinator that does not hold any keys and is therefore not a hot nor a cold wallet. Your keys live on your signing devices.
Liana Connect is a hosted backend by Wizardsardine for fast setup without running a full node. A self-hosted Bitcoin Core node or Electrum server keeps all wallet information local and private.
You set a timelock on recovery keys, for example 12 months. As long as you make at least one transaction before expiry (a "refresh" sweep also works), those keys cannot be used. If you become unreachable and the timelock expires, your heir can spend with their recovery key. You can also use a third party to provide them with an encrypted descriptor.
The hardware device protects your key from remote theft; the seed phrase lets you recover the key if the device is lost or destroyed. Both are needed because each failure mode is different. No trusted party is required.
Only if you share the wallet descriptor with them. The descriptor itself reveals the wallet's full transaction history and balance on-chain. You can share it encrypted to a trusted third party who will hand it over when needed.
Recovery paths are encoded directly into the Bitcoin script, with no trusted party and no dependency on our infrastructure. If your primary key is stolen, the timelock must still expire before the recovery path can be used. If you lose your primary key, the recovery path ensures you can always reclaim your funds.
