Trezor

A hardware wallet for storing multiple cryptocurrencies, including your ADA and Cardano tokens, in cold storage.

Wallets on the Trezor hardware wallet are accessible via Trezor Suite, a desktop application that provides a clean and easy interface for interacting with your coins. Here you can send, receive, and store ADA, Cardano native tokens, and NFTs. You can also collect staking rewards but you can't delegate stake.

Your Trezor is locked by a pin that you set and enter on the device itself (not on your computer). You can set an optional passphrase too, and there is also the option to have hidden wallets stored behind a separate passphrase.

There are two models of Trezor: the One and the Model T. The Model T is the newest and supports a Cardano wallet directly in Trezor Suite, the Trezor One only supports some third party Cardano wallets, both full node and light wallets, that have been around since the Byron era (pre July 29th 2020) and have the backwards compatibility.

Buy and Exchange Crypto

Through the Trezor Suite you can buy, sell and exchange ADA. This function uses a third party, Invity, and many options don’t require KYC.

Staking

Multiple Cardano wallets support the Trezor hardware wallet which is handy because staking ADA is not possible in the Trezor Suite. Thankfully staking your ADA from your Trezor wallet is easy. Simply connect your Trezor wallet to a third party Cardano wallet that your trust (which has staking capabilities), choose your stake pool and stake your coins. Job done.

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Wallets

If you’re searching for where to store Cardano, ada, you’ve come to the right page. The best cardano wallet is a hotly debated topic in the Cardano community, and there are many types of Cardano wallet, all listed here, available to users. The only Cardano desktop wallet available is Daedalus, a full node wallet that downloads the complete Cardano blockchain, ~100GB.

By far the most popular type of wallet is a Cardano light wallet and there are many of these for you to choose from. The second most popular type of wallet is a Cardano web wallet. Most Cardano wallets will show the Cardano price, and a few have even the integrated the ability for you to buy Cardano, ada, directly in the wallet!

Almost all the wallets listed above allow you participate in the Cardano staking protocol, Ouroboros, where you can help to secure the network and earn passive income in the form of staking rewards. Many of the wallets listed above will also allow you to search for which pool to stake your Cardano, ada, to right in the wallet itself.

Finally, there are multiple Cardano cold storage wallets for you to choose from. There are five hardware wallets that offer native support for where to store ada, and two of them, the Ledger and Trezor are supported by multiple light wallets allowing you to use your favorite interface to keep your coins secure in cold storage.

NFT

If you’re looking for a Cardano NFT then you’ve found the place for you! listed here are all the projects that feature NFTs in some form on Cardano. NFTs are no longer just the PFP collections that made them famous, although many do still exists and you can find Cardano NFT projects here, NFTs are assets with multiple different types of utility, depending on which project’s NFTs your buying.

A Cardano NFT is a native asset on Cardano which means that, unlike on other (specifically EVM-based) chains, an NFT is not managed by a smart contract, meaning that it behaves and is managed differently to the chain’s base asset, ada. On Cardano NFTs behave the same as the chains base asset as they are native to the chain.

On this page you’ll find everything from Cardano NFT projects to DeFi projects and decentralized identity (DID) solutions that have incorporated NFTs, to the Cardano NFT marketplaces you can use to purchase NFTs.

Light Wallet

Basic Wallet Science Cryptocurrency wallets function through a pair of cryptographic keys, one public and one private. The public key is the wallet’s address, the private key is securely stored in the wallet. Both are required to send an asset from the wallet.

Wallets are split into two categories: custodial and non-custodial. With a custodial wallet a 3rd party, e.g. an exchange or service provider, possesses the wallet’s private key. With a non-custodial wallet you alone possess the private key. Whoever controls the private key controls the wallet’s funds. Hence the mantra: Not your keys not your coins. A wallet’s security can also be increased by storing it on a hardware wallet.

Wallets are either light or full node. Full node wallets download the whole Cardano blockchain, interacting directly with it, and are less affected by network congestion than light wallets, which require other nodes to send their transactions. Full node wallets exist on computers, light wallets exist on devices and as browser extensions.

A basic wallet allows for the viewing of its balance and the sending and receiving of funds, but wallets can have many other functions, including: delegating the wallet’s funds to a stake pool, registering to vote in Project Catalyst, displaying the wallets NFTs, hardware wallet integration, and using integrated DeFi services.

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