Research on self-custody adoption consistently points to the same barrier: the 24-word BIP-39 seed phrase. It's a single point of failure — lose the paper, lose everything; get phished into typing it into a fake site, lose everything just as fast.

Vorka doesn't generate one. Instead, your operational and recovery keys are each stored as a standard encrypted keystore file — the same format used by geth and MetaMask — protected by a password only you choose.

This isn't a silver bullet. You still have a password to protect and remember. What it removes is the specific failure mode of a seed phrase sitting in plain text somewhere, and the specific phishing pattern of "type your seed phrase here" that accounts for a huge share of real-world crypto theft.