diff --git a/darepod/seed_storage_wasm.go b/darepod/seed_storage_wasm.go
index 79250aef9..c4744ba95 100644
--- a/darepod/seed_storage_wasm.go
+++ b/darepod/seed_storage_wasm.go
@@ -3,60 +3,257 @@
 package darepod
 
 import (
-	"encoding/base64"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
 	"syscall/js"
 )
 
-const wasmSeedStoragePrefix = "darepod:encrypted-seed:"
+// The encrypted seed is persisted as a single file in the origin-private file
+// system (OPFS). OPFS is reachable from both the window and worker globals,
+// unlike localStorage which is window-only, so the daemon can run inside a Web
+// Worker. SeedFilePath produces a "/dir/dir/wallet_seed.enc" path; it is split
+// on "/" and walked as OPFS directory handles, persisting the seed at that
+// nested path in the OPFS origin (the daemon's SQLite data is stored
+// separately, under hashed flat names at the OPFS root). These functions block
+// the calling goroutine on the async OPFS promises, so they keep their
+// synchronous signatures; they must run off the JS call stack (the verb
+// goroutines spawned by promise() satisfy this).
 
-// SaveEncryptedSeed stores the encrypted seed in browser localStorage. The
+// errOPFSUnavailable is returned when the OPFS API is absent from the current
+// JS context. This is a deterministic capability gap rather than a transient
+// failure, so callers can safely treat it as "no seed has ever been persisted".
+var errOPFSUnavailable = errors.New("OPFS (navigator.storage.getDirectory) " +
+	"is unavailable")
+
+// opfsError wraps a rejected OPFS promise, preserving the DOMException name
+// (e.g. "NotFoundError") alongside its string form so callers can tell a
+// genuinely-absent file apart from an ambiguous runtime failure.
+type opfsError struct {
+	name string
+	msg  string
+}
+
+// Error returns the string form of the underlying OPFS rejection.
+func (e *opfsError) Error() string {
+	return e.msg
+}
+
+// isNotFound reports whether err is an OPFS rejection caused by a missing file
+// or directory (a DOMException with name "NotFoundError").
+func isNotFound(err error) bool {
+	var oerr *opfsError
+
+	return errors.As(err, &oerr) && oerr.name == "NotFoundError"
+}
+
+// awaitJSPromise blocks the calling goroutine until the JS promise settles and
+// returns its resolved value, or an error built from the rejection reason. The
+// channel is buffered so the settle callback never blocks the JS event loop. p
+// must be a thenable (a real Promise); every OPFS caller here passes one.
+func awaitJSPromise(p js.Value) (js.Value, error) {
+	type settled struct {
+		value js.Value
+		err   error
+	}
+	ch := make(chan settled, 1)
+
+	onResolve := js.FuncOf(func(_ js.Value, args []js.Value) any {
+		var v js.Value
+		if len(args) > 0 {
+			v = args[0]
+		}
+		ch <- settled{value: v}
+
+		return nil
+	})
+	defer onResolve.Release()
+
+	onReject := js.FuncOf(func(_ js.Value, args []js.Value) any {
+		oerr := &opfsError{msg: "promise rejected"}
+		if len(args) > 0 && args[0].Truthy() {
+			reason := args[0]
+			oerr.msg = reason.Call("toString").String()
+
+			// DOMExceptions carry the failure kind on .name
+			// (e.g. "NotFoundError"); preserve it so callers can
+			// distinguish a missing file from other failures.
+			if n := reason.Get("name"); n.Type() == js.TypeString {
+				oerr.name = n.String()
+			}
+		}
+		ch <- settled{err: oerr}
+
+		return nil
+	})
+	defer onReject.Release()
+
+	p.Call("then", onResolve, onReject)
+
+	res := <-ch
+
+	return res.value, res.err
+}
+
+// opfsRootDir resolves the OPFS root directory handle, returning an error when
+// OPFS is unavailable in the current context.
+func opfsRootDir() (js.Value, error) {
+	storage := js.Global().Get("navigator").Get("storage")
+	if !storage.Truthy() || storage.Get("getDirectory").IsUndefined() {
+		return js.Value{}, errOPFSUnavailable
+	}
+
+	return awaitJSPromise(storage.Call("getDirectory"))
+}
+
+// splitSeedPath splits a "/a/b/file" seed path into its directory segments and
+// the final file name, skipping empty segments.
+func splitSeedPath(path string) (dirs []string, file string) {
+	var parts []string
+	for _, p := range strings.Split(path, "/") {
+		if p != "" {
+			parts = append(parts, p)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(parts) == 0 {
+		return nil, ""
+	}
+
+	return parts[:len(parts)-1], parts[len(parts)-1]
+}
+
+// opfsSeedDir walks the OPFS directory chain for the seed path, optionally
+// creating it, and returns the parent directory handle and the file name.
+func opfsSeedDir(path string, create bool) (js.Value, string, error) {
+	dirs, file := splitSeedPath(path)
+	if file == "" {
+		return js.Value{}, "", fmt.Errorf("invalid seed path %q", path)
+	}
+
+	dir, err := opfsRootDir()
+	if err != nil {
+		return js.Value{}, "", err
+	}
+
+	opts := map[string]any{"create": create}
+	for _, name := range dirs {
+		dir, err = awaitJSPromise(
+			dir.Call("getDirectoryHandle", name, opts),
+		)
+		if err != nil {
+			return js.Value{}, "", err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return dir, file, nil
+}
+
+// openSeedFile resolves the handle for an existing seed file, returning the
+// underlying OPFS error (e.g. a NotFoundError) when the file or one of its
+// parent directories is absent.
+func openSeedFile(path string) (js.Value, error) {
+	dir, file, err := opfsSeedDir(path, false)
+	if err != nil {
+		return js.Value{}, err
+	}
+
+	return awaitJSPromise(
+		dir.Call(
+			"getFileHandle", file, map[string]any{
+				"create": false,
+			},
+		),
+	)
+}
+
+// SaveEncryptedSeed writes the encrypted seed ciphertext to its OPFS file. The
 // payload is already password-encrypted by EncryptSeed before this boundary.
 func SaveEncryptedSeed(path string, ciphertext []byte) error {
-	storage := js.Global().Get("localStorage")
-	if storage.IsUndefined() || storage.IsNull() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("browser localStorage is unavailable")
+	dir, file, err := opfsSeedDir(path, true)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("opening seed directory for %q: %w", path,
+			err)
 	}
 
-	storage.Call(
-		"setItem", wasmSeedStoragePrefix+path,
-		base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(ciphertext),
+	handle, err := awaitJSPromise(
+		dir.Call(
+			"getFileHandle", file, map[string]any{
+				"create": true,
+			},
+		),
 	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("creating seed file %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+
+	writable, err := awaitJSPromise(handle.Call("createWritable"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("opening seed file %q for write: %w", path,
+			err)
+	}
+
+	buf := js.Global().Get("Uint8Array").New(len(ciphertext))
+	js.CopyBytesToJS(buf, ciphertext)
+
+	// A writable stream holds an exclusive lock on the file until it is
+	// closed, so close it unconditionally even when the write fails;
+	// otherwise the leaked lock blocks later reads and writes until the
+	// stream is garbage-collected. The write error takes precedence.
+	_, writeErr := awaitJSPromise(writable.Call("write", buf))
+	_, closeErr := awaitJSPromise(writable.Call("close"))
+
+	if writeErr != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("writing seed file %q: %w", path, writeErr)
+	}
+	if closeErr != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("closing seed file %q: %w", path, closeErr)
+	}
 
 	return nil
 }
 
-// LoadEncryptedSeed reads the encrypted seed ciphertext from browser
-// localStorage.
+// LoadEncryptedSeed reads the encrypted seed ciphertext from its OPFS file.
 func LoadEncryptedSeed(path string) ([]byte, error) {
-	storage := js.Global().Get("localStorage")
-	if storage.IsUndefined() || storage.IsNull() {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("browser localStorage is unavailable")
+	handle, err := openSeedFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading seed file %q: %w", path, err)
 	}
 
-	value := storage.Call("getItem", wasmSeedStoragePrefix+path)
-	if value.IsNull() || value.IsUndefined() {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading seed file %q: not found", path)
+	fileObj, err := awaitJSPromise(handle.Call("getFile"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("opening seed file %q: %w", path, err)
 	}
 
-	data, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(value.String())
+	bufVal, err := awaitJSPromise(fileObj.Call("arrayBuffer"))
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("decode seed file %q: %w", path, err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading seed file %q: %w", path, err)
 	}
 
+	arr := js.Global().Get("Uint8Array").New(bufVal)
+	data := make([]byte, arr.Get("length").Int())
+	js.CopyBytesToGo(data, arr)
+
 	return data, nil
 }
 
-// SeedFileExists returns true if an encrypted seed exists in browser
-// localStorage for the network data directory.
+// SeedFileExists reports whether an encrypted seed file exists in OPFS for the
+// network data directory. It returns false only when absence is confirmed: a
+// NotFoundError for the file or one of its parent directories, or OPFS being
+// unavailable (so nothing could ever have been persisted). Any other error is
+// ambiguous (transient I/O, quota, a handle locked by a concurrent writer), so
+// the seed is reported as present to keep the daemon out of the "no wallet"
+// state, where a later InitWallet would overwrite a seed that may exist.
 func SeedFileExists(networkDir string) bool {
-	path := SeedFilePath(networkDir)
-	storage := js.Global().Get("localStorage")
-	if storage.IsUndefined() || storage.IsNull() {
-		return false
-	}
+	_, err := openSeedFile(SeedFilePath(networkDir))
+	switch {
+	case err == nil:
+		return true
 
-	value := storage.Call("getItem", wasmSeedStoragePrefix+path)
+	case isNotFound(err), errors.Is(err, errOPFSUnavailable):
+		return false
 
-	return !value.IsNull() && !value.IsUndefined()
+	default:
+		return true
+	}
 }