# Mnemonic

An essential aspect of regulatory compliance of our Blockchain as a service infrastructure is to keep wallets non-custodial. Users are interacting with their very own keys and we only store those fragments that enable them to unlock them for transaction processing purposes.

#### Mnemonic Phrase

As a non-custodial wallet, users are responsible for backing up their keys. The mnemonic phrase function returns the 12 word backup seed-phrase of the wallet selected. 

```javascript
var parameters = {
    serviceId: 'optional',
    walletID: 'optional',
}
const response = await relysia.wallet.v1.mnemonic(parameters);
```

## Get your mnemonic phrase.

<mark style="color:blue;">`GET`</mark> `https://api.relysia.com/v1/mnemonic`

The mnemonic phrase secures your wallet keys. Each mnemonic acts as seed of a HDPrivatekey that itself contains hundrets of PrivateKeys.

#### Headers

| Name     | Type   | Description |
| -------- | ------ | ----------- |
| walletID | string |             |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200: OK " %}

```javascript
{
  "statusCode": 200,
  "data": {
    "status": "success",
    "msg": "Operation completed successfully",
    "mnemonic": "Trades Extend Steps Then Degrees Entice Melodious Organs keen pattern disorder vintage"
  }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% hint style="info" %}
Make sure you backup your mnemonic phrase and never share it with anyone.
{% endhint %}

### Retrieve Funds

The mnemonic phrase is the seed for a HDPrivateKey with millions of potential addresses. You can extract your funds from the **M/44/0/0/{1,2,3...}** path. First transactions will always go to the first addresses and their corresponding private keys, while over time, to prevent address re-usage for privacy reasons we use a larger and larger address space. Nonetheless, knowing the order of writings, you can recover all funds without Relysia.&#x20;

{% hint style="success" %}
If you want to learn more about manually extracting funds, we got you covered.&#x20;

Visit the [Satolearn.com](https://satolearn.com) platform to learn more about bitcoin coding.&#x20;
{% endhint %}


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