Updated 17th May 2021 by Antonio Nardella
20210517 CHANGELOG:
Never share the seed, private key, Ledger passphrase with 24 words with anyone - including members of the IOTA Foundation.
IOTA Foundation members and moderators will never ask for your seed, your private keys, or your Ledger passphrase of 24 words. “Never” really means “never”. There are no exceptions, ever.
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)If you already have this information at hand please go straight to The Chrysalis reclaim process
First things first let's make sure it is the correct and original seed and it is a reclaim case, unless it was already verified by an IOTA Foundation member before.
IMPORTANT This is necessary as the seed confirms the ownership of the tokens. Using the wrong seed during the reclaim process will not make it possible to reclaim the tokens.
There are a few ways to verify the seed, let's have a look at them
Download and set up the latest version of the Trinity wallet. Version 1.6.2 as of this writing
Insert the seed with the tokens to be reclaimed
Go to Account -> Account Management -> View addresses
Now the list of addresses associated to the seed are visible
Click on the visible addresses to copy it and search for the address on this page:
THE LIST CONTAINS ONLY ADDRESSES WITHOUT CHECKSUM. Should the address have 90 characters, make sure to remove the last 9 characters from the address that is being searched
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cyclux/2bb05d873c4ec6115cad1d100263d489/raw/612a49e46091586957448f6606ea981ab18022e7/snapshot_validation_20171023.txt
The text near the address has to say either KEY_REUSE or CURL_NOT_TRANSITIONED
Continue verifying addresses until you have the whole list of addresses with frozen tokens
At this point we have the information that confirms that it is a reclaim case.
Please write down the seed and the address(es) and proceed to: The receiving address with Firefly
There are certain situations where the addresses where calculated differently, this Trinity option will not works. If your address is not in the table above please continue to the next option
THIS TOOL IS A COMMUNITY TOOL AND IS NOT ENDORSED BY THE IOTA Foundation.
The following information has been taken from the original repository
This program was written to help Iota users who unexpectedly see a zero balance in their Trinity wallet. There are multiple reasons why this could be happening and often it is not easy for non-experts to find out what is going on.
NEVER share your seed with anyone. No community member or member of the Iota Foundation will ever ask for your seed. If someone does it is 100% a scam to steal your money. That said, even entering your seed into a software other than the official Iota wallet should not be handled lightly and can only be recommended as a last resort. For your own safety you should run this software only an an air-gapped computer.
The goal is that the program lets unexperienced users test what could possibly cause Trinity to not show the expected balance. I plan to add more tests over time.
The program allows to
Seeds that are too short or too long will be adadpted in the same way the Iota Light Wallet did.
With the given seed the programm calculates a large number of addresses both using the current address generation algorith and the one that was used in 2017 and earlier. These addresses are then matched against a list of reclaimable addresses. Possible matches and reclaimable balance will be shown. If no match is found using the Iota reclaim process will NOT bring back your balance.
If a reclaim case could be ruled out, the balance option will generate addresses using the current algorithm and compare them to an internally stored snapshot of the tangle. This snapshot holds all addresses with balances and by matching against this list the program does not need any connection to the internet or the current tangle to check balances. Currently a snapshot file from Feb 12th, 2021 is included. If you are missing a funds that have been moved after this date you can supply a more recent snapshot file. Ask someone who has access to a Iota node to run the following command and supply you with the resulting file.
Place the file snapshot.txt
next to this tool's executable. It will be automatically be used when checking the balances.
This program requires to enter your seed and is designed to run without any internet connection. If all your addresses still do not show any balance you can check the addresses on the Iota tangle explorer https://explorer.iota.org/legacy-mainnet for any transactions that show where your funds went. To avoid having to enter all addresses manually I wrote another tool that automates this process (iotaAddressHistoryChecker). It will require a list of addresses exported by the iotaZeroBalanceHelper and then request all available tranascations from the explorer. It will report any token movements in a short and human readable report.
Finally HBMY's iotaZeroBalanceHelper is available here: https://github.com/HBMY289/iotaZeroBalanceHelper/releases
THIS TOOL IS A COMMUNITY TOOL AND IS NOT ENDORSED BY THE IOTA Foundation.
The following information has been taken from the original repository
NEVER give your seed to anyone, not even to someone you think you can trust. Not even the devs. There's scammers out there. NEVER enter your seed into or download any software that is closed source and/or that hasn't been reviewed and approved by either the IOTA foundation or at least the IOTA community.
I have written this tool to help a user on Reddit who accidentally made a typo in his seed while logging in into the wallet.
He then transfered iota to the address he generated and logged out of his wallet.
Because he accidentally made a typo when logging in, he lost access to his funds.
This program checks the most common typing mistakes and tries to find the real seed (typo-seed) of the address the funds were transferred to.
Anyone who transferred funds to an IOTA address of a seed similar to his own but with a typo and doesn't know the 'typo-seed'.
Finally FVANtom's IOTA seed typo finder is available here: https://github.com/FVANtom/find-typo-in-iota-seed/releases
Now start again either with OPTION A or OPTION B to make sure it is a reclaim case
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)The reclaim tool is a terminal/command line tool and it needs a little preparation to get it started on MacOS
iota-reclaim-simplify.mac
from here:cd
command to get to the Download
or Desktop
folder. In this example the chrysalis reclaim tool was downloaded to the Desktop
chmod +x iota-reclaim-simplified.mac
./iota-reclaim-simplified.mac
(NOTE It will fail and give an error)iota-reclaim-simplify.mac
was blocked and click on Allow AnywayNow that we have
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)it is possible to start the reclaim process.
Download the Reclaim Simplified tool from here:
https://github.com/iotaledger/reclaim-simplified/releases/tag/v0.0.4
NOTES:
chmod +x iota-reclaim-simplified.linux
Open the command line or terminal, run the tool and follow the on-screen instructions.
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This information will be collected and the reclaims verified.
IMPORTANT NOTICE As of this blog post all the reclaims submissions will close on June 16th 2021 at 23:59 UTC.