Deleting Your Archeum Account

Last updated: June 29, 2026

How Archeum differs from typical apps

Archeum is a decentralized personal-infrastructure layer. The Archeum app is where you create your wallet, claim a handle, and manage the node that stores your data - a node that runs on your own phone. The app publisher does not operate any servers that store your data. There is no central database of user accounts for us to delete from.

Your Archeum account consists of three parts, each of which you fully control:

Your wallet keys - stored in encrypted on-device storage on your phone.
Your handle (e.g. @alice) - owned in Archeum's feeless mesh consensus.
Your node storage - your data, stored on the Archeum node running on your phone. Each app (like Social) writes its data here in its own isolated namespace.

How to delete your account

Because no publisher-side record exists, deletion is something you perform yourself - directly in the app.

1. Use the in-app Delete Account flow (recommended)

Open the Archeum app → Settings → Delete Account. You'll be asked to type "delete" and confirm with your device biometric or screen lock. Once confirmed, the app will, in order:

Release every handle your wallet owns back to the network - the name immediately stops being yours and becomes available for anyone to claim.
Leave the consensus network and publish a tombstone, so you stop being reachable and your node's committee seat is vacated cleanly.
Erase all data stored on your node, across every app's namespace.
Remove your wallet keys, recovery phrase, and login passphrase from this device, and sign you out.

After deletion completes, you're returned to the welcome screen. Uninstall the app to remove any remaining cache files.

2. Alternative: clear one app at a time

If you prefer to selectively remove data before deleting your account, tap your identity card → Storage → Apps tab. For each app, tap Clear data to delete its stored content from your node. See Deleting App Data for details.

3. What happens to your handle

Your handle is owned in the mesh consensus, not on a blockchain. The deletion flow actively releases it the moment you confirm: it is signed back to the network's unowned pool and becomes available for someone else to claim right away. (This is cleaner than simply going silent - a handle that is merely abandoned, never released, would only lapse on its own after roughly two months of no renewal.)

What data is deleted vs. retained

Released to the network: every handle your wallet owns, returned to the unowned pool and claimable by anyone.
Deleted from your device: all data stored on your node (every namespace) + all on-device data (wallet keys, recovery phrase, login passphrase, app settings, secure storage). This happens in a single operation when you confirm deletion.
Deleted on uninstall: any remaining app cache files not covered by the deletion flow.
Kept in public consensus: if you held the Arc currency, that balance remains in the public ledger keyed to your wallet's public key - a decentralized ledger entry cannot be erased, but it contains no private data and is unspendable once your keys are removed from the device.
Kept on other people's nodes: your posts live exclusively on your node and are deleted with it. What other nodes hold are pointers telling apps where to find your content - those go dead the moment your node's data is gone. Public information you sent to others (such as reactions, which can carry short ephemeral content) may persist on their nodes until it expires.
Retained by the publisher: nothing - see below.

What the publisher retains

Nothing. The app publisher operates no servers that receive or store your data. We cannot delete or retain anything on your behalf because we never had it.

If you previously sent us a feedback email (Settings → Send Feedback), we may retain that email thread in our inbox per normal email practice. To request deletion of your feedback email, contact [email protected].

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