The process of accessing your wallet on a new Android device beautifully illustrates the non-custodial nature of Tonkeeper and the principles of self-sovereign finance. When you install the app on a new phone, you are not “logging in” to an account that holds your funds on a remote server. Instead, you are decrypting your wallet on the new device using your secret seed phrase, which serves as the master key to your financial identity on the blockchain. You select the “Import Wallet” option and carefully enter your 24 recovery words in the correct order. The tonkeeper application then uses this phrase to mathematically regenerate your exact same set of private and public keys through deterministic cryptographic algorithms. This process happens entirely locally on your device without transmitting sensitive information over the internet. Once completed, the new installation of the wallet has the same access to your assets on the blockchain as the old one, demonstrating that your funds are not in the app but rather on the decentralized network. This powerful concept of self-sovereignty means that as long as you possess your seed phrase, your assets are accessible from any compatible wallet on any device, forever, without dependence on any company or service provider.