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Turnkey Whitepaper

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Every transaction in crypto starts and ends with a private key. Creating, storing, managing, and using private keys is an extremely hard problem to solve. Since digital asset ownership and usage is all rooted in public key cryptography, solving this problem is an essential need for the industry. Turnkey is a novel approach to key management built for the next wave of crypto applications and users. Our team is composed of industry veterans1 who spent years in the trenches managing keys through multiple bull and bear cycles, securing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of crypto. The pain of struggling with non-optimal solutions has given our team the grit and hunger needed to invent a better solution for the future. We are now building the foundation we wish we had during those years. Turnkey is low-level key management infrastructure that can be used by a business to automate transactions at scale, or to provide non-custodial wallets for end users. This includes everything from high-

Key Management Re-Imagined from First Principles Turnkey Team January 2025 Abstract Every transaction in crypto starts and ends with a private key. Creating, storing, managing, and using private keys is an extremely hard problem to solve. Since digital asset ownership and usage is all rooted in public key cryptography, solving this problem is an essential need for the industry. Turnkey is a novel approach to key management built for the next wave of crypto applications and users. Our team is composed of industry veterans 1 who spent years in the trenches managing keys through multiple bull and

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