Celo extension wallet not supported

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Hello ,
I encountered problem with Celo extension wallet for Chrome browser. I installed it in December 2024. and funded it with Celo, and haven’t used it since then. In the meantime Chrome discontinued support for that wallet and disabled it and I couldn’t find any way to enable it on browser.

I have 24 word seed to generate wallet again but Valora accepts only 12 word seeds. Any suggestions how to proceed further? I need wallet that is compatible with Celo extension wallet but I don’t know if it exists.

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hey do you have your original seedphrase? if not do you have the privateKey? you will need one of them to get your tokens. Celo extension wallet used a different derivationPath than most wallets so

I would suggest using celocli as it supports that derivationPath,

npx @celo/celocli account:new --mnemonicPath ./your-mnemonic.txt  --derivationPath celoLegacy

This will show you your privateKey

Then use the transfer:** command with your private key to transfer to a wallet that supports celo. such as valora or uniswapwallet.

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Thank you Aaron, so far I tried to import seed words in Meta mask and add Celo mainnet network, but it doesn’t seem to work as balance is 0. I guess Meta mask has different derivation path?

I’ll try your method later this week and give feedback.

Thanks again for info.

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yeah metamask uses different path.

this post has some good info on derivation paths in celo ecosystem Deprecating the celo derivation path