🎬 Scene 1 — “What is a seed?”
A seed phrase (12/24 words) is the master secret that can generate your keys. It’s not your coins — it’s the origin of your keys. Treat it like your “do-not-leak” ancient spell.
Seed = the source that can generate countless addresses.
NEVER share it
🎬 Scene 2 — “What is a derivation path?”
A derivation path is the recipe that tells the wallet which branch of keys to generate from the seed. Change the path, and the wallet walks a different branch — producing different addresses.
Derivation Path = the route inside the “key tree”
A.K.A. HD path
wallet.keys(seed, path)
// Same seed + different path = different addresses seed = "twelve words ... twenty-four words" path A = m/44'/899'/0'/0/0 // eCash-style branch path B = m/44'/1899'/0'/0/0 // CashTab-style branch address(seed, path A) != address(seed, path B)
🎬 Scene 3 — Tonalli Wallet’s official derivation path (English)
Tonalli Wallet uses this derivation path:
m/44'/899'/0'/0/0
That means Tonalli derives addresses from the eCash-style branch.
Tonalli Path: m/44'/899'/0'/0/0
stable
Friendly warning: If you import a seed from another wallet that uses a different path
(example: CashTab path m/44'/1899'/0'/0/0),
you may see a different address. That doesn’t mean funds were stolen — it usually means
you’re looking at a different branch of the same seed.