Your coins, counted with everything else you own
Vault holds crypto as one of five asset classes, prices it from public exchange data, and counts it beside your stocks, your property and the companies you own. You enter quantities yourself — there is no wallet to connect and no exchange key to hand over — and every figure is encrypted in your browser before it reaches us.
Keep your crypto tracker. This is the layer above it.
A crypto portfolio tracker answers what your coins are doing today, across chains, in real time. It does that better than Vault will, and Vault does not try to replace it. The question it cannot answer is the one this product exists for: what are you actually worth, and how many years of work are left. Your crypto tracker has never heard of your flat, your pension, or the company you own a third of.
Typing a number in by hand is not what makes it private
Plenty of trackers let you enter a balance manually, and doing so protects nothing on its own: the number you typed is stored in the clear, in their database, beside the email address that identifies you. They promise not to look at it. Vault removed the ability to look. Every value is encrypted in your browser under a key wrapped by a twelve-word phrase we never receive, so what reaches our server is ciphertext — unreadable to us, and unreadable to anyone who takes the database.
What we can see, and what we cannot
We are precise about this rather than absolute, because an absolute claim would be false. Amounts, quantities, prices and names are encrypted and unreadable to us. Row identifiers, dates and the kind of each record are not — the database has to function. So we can tell that an account holds crypto, and when it was last updated. We cannot tell how much, or which coins, or what any of it is worth.
- Unreadable to us: how many coins, which coins, what they are worth, and every note and name you attach.
- Readable to us: your email address, the date a row changed, and that the row is a crypto holding rather than a mortgage.
- Never collected at all: wallet addresses, extended public keys, exchange API keys. Vault prices a quantity, so it has no use for an account.
Manual entry, not manual maintenance
You enter a quantity once. From that point the price is Vault's job: crypto is valued from public exchange data, refreshed through the day, and converted into the currency you count in. Adding a coin is a line of typing; keeping it current is nothing. A quote that fails falls back to the last good price and says so on the holding's face, because a wrong number announced quietly is worse than no number.
Self-custody counts exactly like an exchange balance
Coins on a hardware wallet, coins in a paper backup, coins left on an exchange — all of them are a quantity of an asset you own, and Vault treats them identically because you enter them identically. Nothing asks where they live. If you want the detail of how that works for cold storage, and why the recovery phrase will feel familiar, there is a page for it.
Where this is the wrong tool
If you hold forty positions across six chains, farm yield, rotate weekly, and need a live view of it all, Vault will feel like work and a real-time tracker will serve you better. This is the right tool for conviction positions you hold for years and want counted properly against the rest of your balance sheet. That is a real answer to a real situation, and pretending otherwise would not make Vault the right tool for the other one.
Vault does not track DeFi positions, staking rewards, NFTs or on-chain transaction history, and it is not a tax or capital-gains tool. It counts what you hold and what it is worth.