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How to recover your Owner Account and Owner Key from an Anchor Owner Key Certificate
How to recover your Owner Account and Owner Key from an Anchor Owner Key Certificate

Learn how to recover your Owner Key from the Anchor Owner Key Certificate step by step (with Anchor Wallet mobile version).

Dario Cesaro avatar
Written by Dario Cesaro
Updated over a year ago

Anchor Owner Certificate for the EOS Account bonusnft.gm

Using this certificate, you may get your Owner Key or restore your EOS Account (Owner Permission). This tutorial will walk you through the process step-by-step.

In the first part, we will restore the EOS Account on our Anchor Wallet (mobile); in the second part, we will extract the Owner Permission's Private Key.

Before we start, here are the prerequisites:

  • Anchor Wallet is installed on your mobile device.

  • Anchor Owner Key Certificate (as in the picture above)

  • Encryption Key. It consists of 6 words (they should be written on the Key Certificate and stored in a safe location. You can follow the best practice for storing your Key Certificate or Private Keys.

Note: In this tutorial, the elements to be selected and commands and texts to be entered are written in bold.

1. Launch Anchor Wallet on your cell phone and tap SCAN QR (if you already have an EOS Account on your phone) and then scan the QR Code displayed on your Owner Key Certificate.

Owner Key Certificate with highlighted QR-code


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If you don’t have an account connected to your Anchor Wallet app, tap Add account and Recover account. Then scan the QR code on your Owner Key Certificate to proceed.

2. A page with six fields for entering the Encryption Key (6 words) appears after scanning the QR code. The words must be entered correctly before the decryption procedure can start. This can require some time.

3. After successful decryption you will see the Add account screen. Click Advanced options.
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4. You will be taken to the Key Management page. Click the Import Owner Key button.

5. The next screen asks you to confirm that you want to restore your account. Click Recover Account.

6. You will receive a message that your EOS Account has been restored.

Now navigate back to the accounts tab of the Anchor Wallet to ensure that the account, in our case bonusnft.gm has been added.

Extracting the Owner Permission's Private Key

7. Select the EOS Account you wish to extract the Private Key from by tapping it. You can tap on EXPORT PRIVATE KEY once the account information page has opened.

8. Go to the Private Key export page. And click the COPY TO CLIPBOARD button.

9. The Owner's Private Key is copied to your clipboard.

10. To verify the Owner Private Key you just copied, visit your account page and delete the previously imported account.

11. Now import the account again using your Private Key (in the clipboard) by tapping ADD ACCOUNT. And in the Add Accounts menu, select IMPORT ACCOUNT.

12. Paste the Private Key you copied to your clipboard into the Import Private Key field.

13. Your EOS Account (Owner Permission) is again imported into your Anchor Wallet.

Important: The Owner Permission should only be used in emergency scenarios, such as when your Active Key has been compromised, as it can change the keys of the Active Permission. The best practice is to use the Active Permission for daily use and keep the Owner Key offline and not imported to any wallet for security reasons. If you would like to learn more about this, you can click here.

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