If you’ve lost access to your Signing Access and have two Guardians set up, you can securely recover signing access to your Bron account. This guide walks you through how to set up Guardians in advance and how to use Guardian Recovery in case of an emergency.
Setting Up Your Guardians
1.1 Choose Your Guardians
Select two trusted people — friends, colleagues, or partners — who you can rely on and communicate with easily.
Guardians do not have access to your funds, accounts, or balances. Their only role is to help you recover access by providing recovery codes when requested.
Share the Guardian setup and recovery guide with them so they know exactly what to do if you ever need their help.
1.2 Agree on a Сommunication Сhannel
Establish a secure communication method (e.g., phone, Signal, Telegram, etc.) with your Guardians. This will be used to:
confirm the legitimacy of your recovery request;
send you the recovery code.
1.3 Invite Guardians to your Workspace
Log in to Bron using the web app or desktop app.
Go to
Workspace→Team Members.Click Invite and choose Guardian as the role.
Enter your Guardian’s email and click Send Invite.
You can also make an existing workspace member a Guardian, or grant a Guardian additional permissions to manage your workspace.
If approvals for adding team members are enabled in your account settings, the Guardian invite will only be sent after another workspace member approves the request.
Your Guardian will receive an email with a link to activate their Guardian account.
🔒 After account activation, a newly invited Guardian enters a 48-hour Security Delay before they can assist with recovery. This security delay begins when a Guardian account is activated.
Recovering Signing Access with Guardians
You can use Guardian Recovery in these scenarios:
Your device has been lost, stolen, or compromised.
A teammate's device (that had Signing Access) was lost or compromised.
No other device or user in the workspace currently holds Signing Access.
⚠️ If you still have Signing Access on another device or user account, use Shard Sharing instead of Guardian Recovery.
2.1 A few things to know
Recovery must be started from the Bron desktop app — it’s not available in the web version.
You’ll need to run recovery for each affected account separately.
During the process, Bron will regenerate your shards securely in collaboration with a trusted third party. The old shards are deleted and can no longer be used.
2.2 How to Start the Guardian Recovery Process
Install the Bron desktop app and sign in to your workspace.
Select the account you need to recover.
Go to
Manage Devicesand click Enable next to Signing Access.This action initiates the recovery process.
At this point:
Your Guardians will receive recovery request emails.
All workspace members will be notified that recovery has started (for security purposes).
5. Contact your Guardians using your pre-agreed communication method and ask them to share their recovery codes. They will need to log in and follow steps described in the Guardian instructions.
6. Enter the two recovery codes into the app and click Confirm.
7. A 48-hour Security Delay will begin. No recovery actions can be taken during this time.
8. Once the delay is over, return to Manage Devices → Signing Access Requests.
9. Select your pending request and click Start Recovery.
The system will now securely generate a new shard set via MPC protocol (Multi-Party Computation) involving you, Bron and the trusted third-party.
This process takes a few minutes. Once completed, your Signing Access is restored, and you can continue working as usual.
If you need assistance at any point, don’t hesitate to contact us at support@bron.org or via the chat on the platform.