USING YOUR KEYSTICK

The restore function.

Check a seed phrase you already have — and see the addresses it controls, before you trust them with anything.

What the restore function is for.

Every SHIBkeystick does two things: generate a brand-new wallet, or check a seed phrase you already hold. The second is the restore function. It takes a phrase you already have and shows you the addresses it controls — entirely in memory, on that one screen, storing nothing.

Verify a backup before you fund it. Confirm the words you wrote down actually produce your addresses, before you send any crypto to them.
See the addresses a phrase controls, offline, without ever typing your seed into a phone, a browser, or any connected device.

How it works.

1 · Start the keystick. Boot the stick, or open the Mac app, exactly as you would to generate.
2 · Type restore. At the opening menu, instead of pressing Enter to generate, type the word restore and press Enter.
3 · Enter your phrase. Type it with all the words on one line, separated by spaces, then press Enter. If it is not a valid phrase — a typo, a wrong word, or words out of order — the stick says so and asks you to check your paper and try again. It will not continue from an invalid phrase.
4 · Read your addresses. The screen says KŌINIkeystick — that is expected, every edition runs the same engine — and shows Bitcoin, Ethereum/EVM, and Solana addresses. Your Shibarium address is the Ethereum/EVM line, because Shibarium is an EVM chain. If they match what you expected, your backup is good.
5 · Power off. On a PC the environment is destroyed as the power leaves it; the Mac app simply exits. Nothing was saved — everything is gone except the paper in your hand.

It is not recovery.

The restore function does not recover lost crypto, and it is not a copy of your keys. The stick stores nothing, ever. If you lose your seed phrase, no one — not you, not KŌINI — can bring it back. That is by design, and it is the whole point of generating this way.

Where you type it is everything. Only ever type your seed into the keystick itself, or a dedicated offline device. Never type it into a phone, a browser, or any online computer "just to check" — a phrase typed into a connected device is a phrase you no longer control.