Shamir's Secret Sharing
Your master secret is split into N fragments where any K rebuild the whole. Lose one and nothing leaks. Lose too many and the vault simply re-provisions.
ShardKeep splits every secret with Shamir's Secret Sharing, encrypts the fragments at your device, and scatters the ciphertext across a trust-minimized Bastion network — anchored on Solana. No custodian can read your data. Not even us.
Animated illustration: a password is split into fragments and distributed to a ring of Bastion nodes, then anchored on the Solana blockchain.
Every architectural decision answers a single question: what if the operator goes rogue?
Your master secret is split into N fragments where any K rebuild the whole. Lose one and nothing leaks. Lose too many and the vault simply re-provisions.
Each fragment is stored by an independent Bastion operator across the network. No single host holds enough of anything to matter. Operators stake SHRD and earn per shard.
Bastions see only ciphertext. Wardens see only routing. You are the only party who can reassemble the plaintext. Cryptography — not policy — makes it so.
You type your password into the ShardKeep browser extension. It never leaves your device in plaintext.
Client-side math breaks the secret into K-of-N fragments. Any K rebuild it; K-1 reveal nothing.
Encrypted fragments fly to independent Bastion operators worldwide. Each holds a useless piece.
A compressed NFT on Solana records where the fragments live — the only thing you ever need to keep.
Every Bastion stakes real capital and earns SHRD for serving the network. Bond amounts are denominated in SHRD; the USD equivalents below assume the current target peg.
Operators stake SHRD to earn the right to serve the network. Users pay a small fee per vault, denominated in SHRD. A treasury funds public goods: audits, client software, protocol grants.
ShardKeep is building the password layer the decentralized internet always deserved. Install the extension, run a node, or both.