Your Wallet Dropped a Network or Shut Down: Are Your Funds Safe and How Do You Get Them Out? (2026 Tracker)

If you use a self-custody wallet, a dropped network or a discontinued app costs you the interface, not the coins: when only the wallet drops support, your assets stay on the blockchain and your recovery phrase still controls them. As of October 2026, on an EVM chain you can re-add the network as a custom network or import the phrase into another EVM wallet; on a non-EVM chain such as Sui you import the phrase into a wallet that supports that chain (Phantom points Sui users to Slush). The exception is a custodial or keyless account with no phrase you can export: there, follow the provider's withdrawal deadline.

Disclosure: WATS Wallet publishes this guide, and WATS Wallet is our own product; it is mentioned only as one possible destination for EVM, Solana and TON assets.

Are your funds safe when a wallet drops a network?

Yes, in self-custody: the wallet app is a window onto the blockchain, and your keys come from your recovery phrase, not from the vendor's servers.

Trust Wallet's sunset notice says: "Your assets remain on their respective blockchains and continue to be associated with your wallet's secret phrase." Phantom's help center says the same about Sui: "Your assets are not lost. They remain on the Sui blockchain and can be accessed using a compatible wallet with the same credentials." Phantom's Sui notice added: "Your funds remain safe and fully under your control."

The condition is that you can reveal or export a recovery phrase or private key. Custodial, exchange-hosted or keyless accounts follow the provider's rules instead. Bitget, for example, told Web3 mini app users to transfer assets out before 6:00 PM (UTC+8) on 2026-03-23 and said any loss from failing to do so "will be borne by the user."

2026 tracker: which wallets dropped networks or products?

Last updated: 2026-10-07. The table is not exhaustive. All rows come from the vendors' own notices; the Monad date comes from Phantom's Sui notice, and some press coverage placed it in a different month.

Wallet	What ended	Date	What still works	Official path out
Trust Wallet	24 named networks, plus 4 already sunset by their own ecosystems (Evmos, Nebulas, Stargaze, BounceBit)	2026-09-15	Assets stay on-chain, tied to your secret phrase	EVM: add as a custom network (Trust mentions Chainlist). Non-EVM: import the phrase into another compatible wallet
Trust Wallet	Trust Handles	2026-09-07	The Handle registration stays recorded on the FIO network, but it no longer works inside Trust Wallet	Manage it with a FIO-compatible tool
Phantom	Monad	2026-08-26	Assets stay on-chain; Phantom's notices say assets remain on-chain and can be accessed with a compatible wallet	Import the phrase into another EVM wallet that supports Monad (Monad's documentation lists supported wallets)
Phantom	Sui	2026-09-24	No viewing, sending or swapping Sui in Phantom; assets stay on-chain	Import the phrase into Slush, the Sui Foundation's recommended wallet
Exodus	Web3 Wallet browser extension; WalletConnect and Web3/dApp browser in the mobile app	Extension: 2026-10-01; mobile app: September 2026	Assets stay on-chain, tied to your secret phrase	If the extension still opens, reveal and back up the secret phrase, then import it into another wallet
Bitget (exchange app)	Web3 mini app, replaced by Bitget Onchain	2026-03-23	Users had to move assets before the cutoff	The window closed at 6:00 PM (UTC+8) on 2026-03-23; Bitget Onchain replaced the mini app

Trust Wallet's official count is 24 networks plus the 4 already sunset; some press reports say 25. The 24 are Agoric, Aurora, Boba, Conflux, Decred, FIO, Firo, Flux, GoChain, IoTeX, KuCoin Community Chain, Manta, Merlin Chain, Meter, Moonbeam, Moonriver, MultiversX, Nano, Neon, Nimiq, Polygon zkEVM, Stride, Viction and Wanchain.

Step 1: Do you actually hold the recovery phrase?

Find it before anything else: it is the 12 or 24 words you wrote down at setup, and many apps can reveal it in security settings while they still open.

In Phantom the path is Settings > Security & Privacy > Show Recovery Phrase. If the old app still opens, export the phrase now and do not uninstall it first. If you have no phrase and the account is custodial, contact the provider only through its official site.

Step 2: Is the dropped chain EVM or non-EVM?

EVM chains use 0x addresses and, in most wallets, the same account on every chain; some wallets derive older EVM chains on their own derivation path, so if the first address does not match, check the derivation or account settings before assuming anything is lost. Non-EVM chains use their own address formats and wallets.

Trust Wallet's own grouping gives these examples. EVM: Aurora, Boba, Manta, Moonbeam, Moonriver, Polygon zkEVM and Wanchain. Non-EVM: Agoric, Decred, FIO, Firo, MultiversX, Nano, Nimiq and Stride. Trust states that its non-EVM networks cannot be added to Trust Wallet as custom networks. Monad is EVM-compatible, according to its documentation; Sui and native Bitcoin are not.

Step 3: How do you get back into an EVM chain?

Either add the chain manually in a wallet that supports custom networks, or import the phrase into another EVM wallet that lists the chain natively.

• Option A, custom network: enter the chain ID, RPC URL, currency symbol and block explorer from the chain's official docs or a reputable directory such as Chainlist, and double-check the chain ID. How to add a custom network and verify the chain ID walks through it.
• Option B, import: restore the phrase in a wallet that already lists the chain; for Monad, Monad's documentation lists the wallets that support it. If the first address differs from your old one, check the wallet's derivation or account settings before assuming anything is lost.

Be careful with RPC details: a malicious RPC can show fake balances, and Trust Wallet itself states that it does not verify the legitimacy, security or reliability of custom networks, RPC endpoints or tokens. Trust also lists Evmos, Nebulas, Stargaze and BounceBit as already sunset by their own ecosystems; for those, whether any access remains depends on the chain itself.

Step 4: How do you get back into a non-EVM chain?

Import the phrase into a wallet built for that chain: Slush for Sui, per Phantom; for MultiversX, Nano or Decred, a wallet the chain's own site lists. Before importing, check that the destination wallet supports importing a standard recovery phrase (BIP39) for that chain and which derivation it uses; a few chains such as Nano use their own conventions. Never enter the phrase anywhere you have not verified.

If the balance shows zero, do not panic. The same phrase can produce different addresses in different apps because of derivation paths, so check the new wallet's account or derivation settings; how one seed phrase derives many addresses explains why. Then compare the first address the new wallet shows with your old address on a block explorer. Once access is confirmed, you can move your crypto to a new wallet safely if you want a fresh start.

Is a "migration support" message real?

Treat every unsolicited migration or recovery offer as a scam: sunset announcements can attract clone pages and fake support messages that ask for your phrase.

Phantom states that it "will never message you first, ask for your Secret Recovery Phrase or private key, or offer to move your assets for you." The rules are simple:

• Never type the phrase into a website, a form or a support chat.
• Enter it only in a wallet app downloaded from the official store or site; see how to verify a real wallet download.
• When only the wallet drops support, your coins stay on-chain and there is no deadline from the wallet. If the chain itself is shutting down, check the chain's own announcements. Either way, an unsolicited message asking for your phrase is a scam.

Where WATS Wallet fits (and where it does not)

WATS Wallet is one possible destination if your stranded assets sit on EVM networks, Solana or TON, and it does nothing for other chains.

WATS Wallet is a Chrome (Chromium) extension and an iOS/Android app, and it is non-custodial: you create and hold your own keys and recovery phrase, and WATS never holds a key, so access to your funds never depends on WATS keeping a product running. Importing a phrase works as described in importing a recovery phrase into WATS Wallet. Check supported chains for the exact list before you import; it covers Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, BNB Chain and other EVM networks, Solana and TON.

On EVM networks WATS Wallet charges fees in ATS from one balance on BSC through an ERC-4337 paymaster, so a migrated account does not need native gas on each network. This is not a discount: the ATS fee tracks the live network cost (see the ATS fee model). Solana and TON pay their own fees in SOL and GRAM (formerly Toncoin).

To be plain: WATS Wallet does not support native Bitcoin, Sui, MultiversX, Nano or other non-EVM chains outside Solana and TON. For those, use a chain-specific wallet, for example Slush for Sui.