Use only the official links below. No real recovery asks for your seed phrase or private key. If anyone offers to recover funds for you, it is a scam.

1. Validator with old withdrawal key

   Ethereum staking

   $20,176 · 1 position

   This validator still has old 0x00 withdrawal credentials. Its ETH cannot be sent out until the owner of the withdrawal mnemonic signs a change to a normal Ethereum address.

   1. Only the holder of the withdrawal mnemonic can do this. Use it offline, never in a website, with staking-deposit-cli or ethdo.
   2. Broadcast the signed change with the Launchpad withdrawals page or a beacon explorer.
   3. After it is included, the balance is paid to your new address automatically.

   Launchpad withdrawals page (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

2. zkSync Lite balance not claimed

   $5,327 · 2 positions

   zkSync Lite was shut down on 2026-05-04. Remaining balances are claimable on Ethereum through a claim contract and a withdrawal portal. Your account is on that list and has not claimed.

   1. Open the zkSync Lite withdrawal portal and connect the wallet that owned the account.
   2. The portal finds your address in the final state, builds the proof and sends the claim. Follow its prompts.
   3. Confirm the Ethereum transaction. Tokens go to your L1 address. Matter Labs sponsors gas for the first 100,000 withdrawals.

   zkSync Lite withdrawal portal (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

3. Balancer v2 pool share

   $9 · 1 position

   You hold Balancer v2 pool tokens, in your wallet or staked. You can exit the pool. Balancer has proposed a wind-down: if it passes, pools become withdraw-only on 30 Oct 2026.

   1. Open the Balancer app, find your pool and use Remove liquidity. Do this before 30 Oct 2026.
   2. If the app does not work, call exitPool on the Balancer v2 Vault 0xBA12222222228d8Ba445958a75a0704d566BF2C8 (Etherscan, Write tab).
   3. If your tokens are staked in Aura, Beefy or a gauge, unstake there first.

   Balancer app (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

4. Funds in old Ethereum contracts (2015-2021)

   <$1 · 1 position

   You have a balance in an old Ethereum contract (The DAO, EtherDelta, IDEX, the 2017 ENS registrar, DigixDAO and others). Each contract has its own withdraw call. Use the wallet that owns the position.

   1. The DAO: on the DAO token 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413 call approve(0xbf4ed7b27f1d666546e30d74d50d173d20bca754, yourBalance). Then call withdraw() on the WithdrawDAO contract 0xbf4ed7b27f1d666546e30d74d50d173d20bca754. It pays 1 ETH per 100 DAO.
   2. EtherDelta 0x8d12a197cb00d4747a1fe03395095ce2a5cc6819: from the wallet that deposited, call withdraw(amount) for ETH or withdrawToken(token, amount) for a token. Amounts are in the token's smallest unit.
   3. IDEX v1 0x2a0c0dbecc7e4d658f48e01e3fa353f44050c208: call withdraw(token, amount). Use token 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 for ETH. It reverts if your last IDEX activity was fewer than 240 blocks ago.
   4. 2017 ENS registrar 0x6090a6e47849629b7245dfa1ca21d94cd15878ef: call releaseDeed(labelhash) for the name. The labelhash is keccak256 of the name without .eth. The deposit goes back to the deed owner.
   5. Other contracts (DigixDAO, Neufund and more): use the contract's own withdraw or refund function on Etherscan from the owner wallet. Check the contract's code first.

   WithdrawDAO contract (The DAO) (opens in a new tab)Official docs (opens in a new tab)

5. xAAVE fund tokens

   xToken

   <$1 · 1 position

   You hold xAAVE, a fund token backed by AAVE. Minting is paused, but burning still works and pays out your share of the AAVE.

   1. Find your token. xAAVEa is 0x80DC468671316E50D4E9023D3Db38D3105c1C146 and xAAVEb is 0x704de5696df237c5b9ba0de9ba7e0c63da8ea0df. Open it on Etherscan, Write as Proxy tab, and connect your wallet.
   2. Call burn(tokenAmount, false, minReturn) with your balance. Set minReturn to the least AAVE you accept.
   3. You get your share of the fund's AAVE: about 0.01 AAVE per token at the last check, not 1 to 1.

   xAAVEa contract on Etherscan (opens in a new tab)