Depends whether the wallet is still on a phone you have. The phrase is the backup, the only way to restore your wallet on a new device. Losing it doesn't lose your funds today. It removes the net.

You still have the phone

Funds are fine. You're one dropped phone away from losing them for good, so do this now: open Aurus, go to the profile's settings, unlock, and the phrase is there to view again. Write it on paper. Not a screenshot, not a note. Then read how to keep it safe.

You lost the phone too

There's no way back. The keys exist in two places, your device and the phrase. With both gone nobody can rebuild them. Not us, not a validator, not a data recovery shop. Not a policy. Math. The same math that makes self-custody work in the first place. The thing that means nobody can seize your funds means nobody can restore them either.

Why it's built this way

If we could recover your wallet without the phrase, we'd effectively hold your keys. Then everything that comes with custody comes back: server hacks, frozen accounts, someone on the inside walking off with it. A backdoor is a custodian with extra steps. So there isn't one, and the backup is yours.

So: check right now that the phrase is written down somewhere a fire or a nosy houseguest can't get to. Five minutes. It's the difference between an annoying afternoon and a permanent loss.

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