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Ctrl Wallet, known as XDEFI Wallet until 2024, was a self-custody crypto wallet that worked across thousands of blockchains, Solana included. It is now closed. Sending, receiving and swaps were switched off in early August 2026. The official website says the wallet was permanently shut down as of 19 August 2026.

Your coins were never held by Ctrl Wallet. They sit on the blockchain, and your recovery phrase controls them. That is the list of words you were given when you created the wallet. If you still have the phrase, you can import it into another wallet and carry on. There is no refund, airdrop or replacement token.

Is Ctrl Wallet shutting down? What happened and when

Ctrl Wallet has already shut down. The company said on 7 July 2026 that it would close. Users had until 3 August 2026 to move their funds. After that date every feature was turned off except one: you could still export your recovery phrase. Cointelegraph reported that the apps would also be pulled from app stores and browser extension stores.

The closure came after a bad three months:

• On 29 April 2026, Ctrl Wallet said it had moved under Emurgo, the for-profit arm of Cardano. Its technology was meant to live on inside SecondFi, the new name for Emurgo's Yoroi wallet.
• On 23 June 2026, Ctrl Wallet reported a security issue with some Cardano wallets. It put the app into maintenance mode.
• On 24 June 2026, attackers drained about 16 million ADA from 374 SecondFi wallets. SecondFi later blamed a flaw in its wallet software and said it would wind down too. That is from a second Cointelegraph report, dated 22 July 2026.
• On 7 July 2026, Ctrl Wallet said it would close for good.

Ctrl Wallet has not published a full account of its own Cardano incident. We found nothing that ties it to the SecondFi flaw, so we do not claim the two share a cause.

How to recover funds from Ctrl Wallet with your recovery phrase

You recover funds from Ctrl Wallet by importing your 12-word or 24-word recovery phrase into a different self-custody wallet. Nothing needs to be "withdrawn" from Ctrl, because Ctrl never held the assets. The new wallet reads the same phrase, rebuilds the same keys, and shows the same balances.

Ctrl Wallet named MetaMask, Trust Wallet and Phantom CASH$1.000+0.0% as compatible options in its closure notice. Pick one that supports the chains you used. For SOL and Solana tokens, Phantom is the one of those three built around Solana.

If you no longer have the phrase written down, an installed copy of the app or extension may still let you export it. Ctrl gave no end date for that, and cryptonews.net noted on 3 August 2026 that export only works for as long as the installed copy still opens. Treat it as urgent.

One gap is worth knowing about. A wallet created with Ctrl's Google or social login may not have a phrase you ever wrote down. We could not confirm Ctrl's instructions for social login users, because its help article is now offline.

Is Ctrl Wallet safe to use now?

Ctrl Wallet is not safe to rely on, because nobody maintains it and it no longer works as a wallet. The software gets no security updates. The team that would answer a support ticket is gone.

Scams are the bigger risk for former users. Ctrl said plainly that there is no migration token, no token swap and no airdrop tied to the closure. Anyone who contacts you offering compensation, or asking for your recovery phrase to "migrate" you, is trying to steal your funds.

Before the incident, Ctrl's own security page said the wallet had been audited by FYEO and had run for four years without an incident. That page gives no audit scope or date, and the claim no longer holds after June 2026. If you held Cardano assets in Ctrl during the June 2026 incident, the cautious step is to move them to a wallet created with a fresh recovery phrase, not only to re-import the old one.

What Ctrl Wallet was: the XDEFI rebrand, features and chains

Ctrl Wallet was a browser extension and mobile app that let you hold, send and swap assets on many blockchains from one account. Its website advertised support for thousands of chains. It also worked with Ledger and Trezor hardware wallets and warned you about malicious addresses. Cointelegraph put its user base at more than 650,000 monthly active users.

The product began life as XDEFI Wallet. XDEFI rebranded to Ctrl on 17 July 2024 and added two headline features. Social login let you create a wallet with a Google or social account in seconds. Gas abstraction let you pay network fees on every supported chain from one balance of USDC or the wallet's own token. You no longer had to keep a little of each chain's own coin for fees.

The business was struggling well before the exploit. In January 2025, founder and chief executive Emile Dubie said the company was looking for a buyer, The Block reported. Its last reported funding was a Series A round led by Mechanism Capital.

What happens to the CTRL token (formerly XDEFI)?

The CTRL token has no product behind it any more. XDEFI planned a one-for-one swap from the XDEFI token to CTRL for August 2024, and the token's main use was paying fees through gas abstraction inside the wallet. With the wallet closed, that use is gone.

Ctrl said there will be no migration token and no airdrop. Price trackers still list CTRL, but a listing says nothing about whether anyone is building on it.

Who Ctrl Wallet suited, and Solana wallet alternatives

Ctrl Wallet suited people who held assets on many unrelated chains, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Cardano, and wanted one app for all of them. That breadth was its selling point. It was never a Solana-first wallet, and Solana users gave up little by using something else.

If you are a former Ctrl user who mainly holds SOL and Solana tokens, a wallet built for Solana will handle staking, NFTs and dApps better than a generalist did. Our guide to wallets for Solana compares the main options. If you need many chains in one place, MetaMask and Trust Wallet were the two multichain wallets Ctrl itself pointed users to.

The lesson from Ctrl is about what self-custody does and does not protect. It kept user funds reachable after the company closed. It did not protect wallets from a flaw in the wallet software itself.