Export Private Key

How and when to export your Alphio wallet's private key, and the security trade-offs that come with it.

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How do I export my private key? Go to Profile → Account → Wallet, open Cash details, and choose Export private key. The flow:

1. Choose the wallet and read the warning. You can export the Perps & Predictions wallet (EVM) or the Tokens wallet (Solana). The screen explains that the key gives full control of the wallet. Click Continue.
2. Verify by email. Alphio sends a 6-digit code to the email bound to your account. Enter it to continue. The code is single-use and expires, so request a fresh one if it stops working. If no email is bound to your account, bind one first. There's no other way to receive the code.
3. Confirm with your authenticator app. Enter the code from your authenticator app. If you haven't set one up yet, the flow walks you through setting it up first. Exporting a private key needs both checks.
4. Reveal the key. Privy opens its own secure window and shows the private key there. Copy it into a password manager or other encrypted storage. Don't save it as plain text.

The key is revealed in Privy's own window. Alphio never sees or stores it.

On the mobile app, tapping Export private key explains that export happens on the web and opens the web app. Sign in with the same account and follow the same steps. The mobile app can't reveal the key itself.

For external wallets you connected in the past (MetaMask, WalletConnect, etc.), you already hold the private key in that wallet app. Alphio has no copy to export, so use the wallet app's own export flow.

What can I do with the exported key? The private key gives full control of the wallet:

• Use the wallet in another app — import the EVM key into an EVM wallet such as MetaMask or Rabby, or the Solana key into a Solana wallet such as Phantom or Solflare.
• Keep using it in Alphio — the address and funds are unchanged. Both apps operate on the same underlying wallet.
• Recover funds sent on another network — for example, USDC sent on Ethereum to your Alphio EVM address can be moved from a wallet app that supports Ethereum.

A private key is bearer authority: whoever holds it controls the wallet. Treat it like cash.

How to import the key into MetaMask (EVM wallet).

1. Open MetaMask, click the account avatar, choose Add account or hardware wallet, then Import account.
2. Select Private Key as the import type.
3. Paste the private key you exported from Alphio.
4. The wallet appears in MetaMask. Check that the address matches the one Alphio showed. They must match exactly. If they don't, don't use the wallet, and report it immediately.

Security warnings before exporting. Read these carefully. Exporting hands responsibility for the key to you:

• Anyone who reads the key can drain the wallet. Alphio support will never ask for it.
• Never paste the key into a website, chat, screenshot service, or cloud doc. Each of those is a leak vector.
• Phishing is the leading cause of leaks. No legitimate Alphio process ever asks you to enter your private key. Any prompt to do so is phishing.
• Hardware wallets are the safest storage for large amounts. Hardware wallets generally can't import a raw private key. To use one, send the funds to the hardware wallet's own address instead.

Lost my private key — can Alphio recover? It depends on the wallet type:

• Alphio wallet, not exported yet — the key is still reachable through your Alphio account. Sign in normally and you can keep using the wallet or export it at any time.
• Alphio wallet, exported and lost — as long as you can still sign in to Alphio and the wallet is still on your account, export it again.
• Alphio wallet you deleted from your account — Alphio no longer links it to you. The exported key is the only way to reach those funds, so export before you delete.
• External wallet (MetaMask, WalletConnect, etc.) — Alphio never had the private key. Recovery is between you and the wallet app (seed phrase, hardware backup, etc.).

The pattern: Alphio can help you regain access to an Alphio wallet only through account access, never by recovering a key. If you control the Alphio account, you control the wallet.