# Recovering CELO sent to a ETH address

**URL:** <https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139>\
**Category:** Mainnet\
**Created:** [June 24, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139 "2021-06-24T22:27:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![twoye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@twoye](https://forum.celo.org/u/twoye)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/1 "2021-06-24T22:27:42Z")

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How can I recover CELO sent to an ETH address on the ledger wallet? I need to recover my CELO if possible. I have the transaction harsh. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@Jack](https://forum.celo.org/u/Jack)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/2 "2021-11-03T16:32:15Z")

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twoye,

Did you have any success in resolving this? I have the same issue. Please let me know how you made out. Thanks in advance for any help.  
Jack

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**Author:** ![twoye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@twoye](https://forum.celo.org/u/twoye)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/3 "2021-11-03T19:19:36Z")

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Nah  
I gave up on it  
Didn’t get any response

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**Author:** ![TomerBa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TomerBa](https://forum.celo.org/u/TomerBa)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/4 "2021-11-18T05:10:29Z")

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I assume you have you eth address in meta mask?

If you just add celo network to meta mask you suppose to have access to the same address just in celo…

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**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://forum.celo.org/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/5 "2021-11-19T15:36:35Z")

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can you extract your private key from ledger somehow? if yes, I guess then you could add that private key to metamask, change to celo network, and it should work?

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**Author:** ![twoye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@twoye](https://forum.celo.org/u/twoye)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/6 "2021-11-21T06:50:51Z")

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Thank you all  
I will keep you updated

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**Author:** ![twoye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@twoye](https://forum.celo.org/u/twoye)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/7 "2021-12-03T16:02:24Z")

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It worked. I was able to get all my CELO tokens back. Thanks to all.

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**Author:** ![TomerBa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TomerBa](https://forum.celo.org/u/TomerBa)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/8 "2021-12-08T10:36:56Z")

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awesome, happy i could help

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**Author:** ![aerdna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@aerdna](https://forum.celo.org/u/aerdna)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/9 "2022-01-18T15:36:29Z")

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Hi everyone; I had SUSHI on Metamask, CELO network, and I sent them to Binance on ERC-20 network: did I lose them?  
Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![U\_Lu\_Maw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/85e7bf/32.png) [@U\_Lu\_Maw](https://forum.celo.org/u/U_Lu_Maw)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/recovering-celo-sent-to-a-eth-address/1139/12 "2025-12-28T13:12:39Z")

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Thank you a million ! This worked for me too, retrieving both CELO and USDT (sitting on the CELO network) from my ETH account and putting it to where it belongs.
