TOOLS

TOOLS holds five things that are reached for once and belong to no flow. Each opens a dialog rather than a page.

Backup and recovery

Three controls, and the first is a gate rather than a setting. A wallet with no way back to its seed is broken rather than tidy.

Recovery phrase

Twenty-four BIP 39 words. Everything else derives from them, nobody at Zolar holds a copy or can reissue one, and they restore in any Zcash wallet.

Vault file

The same seed encrypted under a key derived from this Solana account's signature. Whoever finds the file cannot open it, and neither can you without that account.

Restore a phrase

Replaces the wallet in this browser with the one the words describe. The phrase has to decrypt and derive the address it claims before anything is written.

Why the signature unlocks the seed and never becomes it is on Security, together with the failure that choice turns from silent into loud.

Disclosure

Layer 2 lives in these two. An instrument that settles in a shielded pool and can still answer an auditor is a different regulatory object from one that only hides.

Scoped viewing key

Incoming payments only, inside a date range you choose. An auditor sees the period they asked about and cannot walk out of either end of it. What you spent stays shut.

Payment disclosure

A receipt for one transfer: this amount, to this recipient, in this block. A viewing key is an ongoing permission that keeps reading, and a disclosure is a statement about something that already happened.

Reading

Memo decoder

The 512 encrypted bytes a shielded output can carry, opened with the key the note was addressed to. It reads your own incoming memos and cannot be pointed at somebody else's payment.

Anchor status

What the attester set last posted and how old it is. It is also the thing this design asks you to trust, so it says so in the open rather than in a footnote.