Skip to main content
Warning: Providing the custodian backup share to the client device puts both MPC shares on a single device, removing the multi-party security benefits of MPC. This operation should only be done for users who want to move off of MPC and into a single private key. Use portal.eject() at your own risk!

​
Ejecting Your User’s Wallets

​
With Portal-managed backups

To eject the private keys for your users’ wallets, their two matching backup shares need to be combined. Since both of these shares are stored on the Portal backend encrypted at rest, we first need to verify that the upcoming request to eject the wallet is not an attack. In order to do this, we make this a two-step process:
  1. Make a Custodian-authed POST request using your Custodian API Key (the same API key you use to create new users) to the /api/v3/custodians/me/clients/${clientId}/prepare-eject endpoint to allow for this client to perform an eject operation
  2. Call the portal.ejectWallet() function from your application

​
Making the `prepare-eject` request

This endpoint requires a walletId in the POST body. This can be found in the wallets property of the /api/custodians/me/clients/${clientId} GET request.
If you are planning on ejecting multiple wallets for a user, you’ll need to make multiple separate requests to “unlock” all requires wallets.
const response = await axios.post<string>(
  `https://api.portalhq.io/api/v3/custodians/me/clients/${clientId}/prepare-eject`,
    { walletId: 'YOUR_CLIENTS_WALLET_ID' },
    {
      headers: {
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${YOUR_CUSTODIAN_API_KEY}`
      }
    },
)

​
Ejecting the wallets

// Provide the appropriate backup method for your client's wallet
const privateKeys = await portal.eject(BackupMethod.PASSWORD, {
  passwordStorage: {
    password,
  },
})
This function will perform the combining of shares from our server and the cryptographic operation required to build a private key for the wallet. The return value is the string literal of the private key.

​
With Backups from your server

To eject the private keys for your users’ wallets, their two matching backup shares need to be combined. This requires providing the following two shares to portal.eject():
  • User Backup Share - Encrypted backup share received from portal.backup().
  • Custodian Backup Share - Raw backup share received from the POST /backup webhook.
Note that a user can have multiple wallets (unique by curve). This means when the user calls portal.eject(), they can potentially receive multiple private keys. Here’s an example implementation: 
import { BackupMethods } from '@portal-hq/web'
import { BackupConfigs } from '@portal-hq/web/types'

// Create a backup config for portal.eject().
const backupConfig: BackupConfigs = {
  passwordStorage: {
    password: 'USERS_PASSWORD',
  }
}

// Fetch the user's backup share from your API.
const userBackupShare = await fetchUserBackupShare(userId)

// Fetch the custodian backup share for the user from your API.
const custodianBackupShare = await fetchCustodianBackupShare(userId)

// Obtain the private keys for the user's various wallets.
const { SECP256K1, ED25519 } = await portal.eject(
    userBackupShare,
    BackupMethods.password,
    backupConfig,
    custodianBackupShare,
)
SECP256K1 is the curve used by Ethereum.ED25519 is the curve used by Solana.You can learn more about signing algorithms and curves here.
And that’s it! Now your users can obtain a private key to import their wallet into another wallet manager.