Waves wallet

The best crypto wallet for your Waves

Secure your Waves tokens with the most trusted wallet. Cold storage wallets are encrypted devices that store your Waves assets offline, providing a layer of security against the evolving threats emerging from being connected to the internet.
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How to use Waves with Ledger

What is Waves?

The Waves blockchain is designed to enable users to create and launch custom crypto tokens. With Waves, creating and trading crypto tokens is made easy as extensive smart contract programming is not required.
Instead, users can create and manage tokens through scripts that run in their accounts on the Waves blockchain.

The objective is to make token development similar to launching a traditional web application. This is achieved by running programs and applications as attachments to transactions and giving new assets a unique identifier. It's worth noting that scripts can only be attached at the asset's creation stage.

These tokens are meant to be traded within the Waves ecosystem, which includes its decentralized exchange (Waves.Exchange). This exchange is specifically built to enable the trade of tokens created on the Waves blockchain with other WAVES tokens.

What is a Waves wallet?

To store and manage Waves, you need a compatible cold wallet. Manage your tokens with a compatible third-party wallet while keeping them safe with a Ledger device:

Ledger hardware wallet

Ledger hardware wallet stores your private keys and signs transactions offline, making them resistant to malicious attacks and threats.

Third-Party Wallet

Third-party wallet allows you to buy, send/receive, and swap Waves, view transaction history, and more, depending on its capabilities.

How to get a Waves crypto wallet?

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Get a Ledger Nano

Select and purchase a Ledger wallet of your choice. Beginner in the crypto world? Get started with Nano S Plus. Prefer a Bluetooth connection? Try with Nano X.

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Download and install Waves.exchange extension

Download and install a compatible third-party wallet that lets you manage your Waves.

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Connect your Ledger Nano to your Waves.exchange

  1. Connect your Ledger Nano to a computer/smartphone and unlock it.
  2. Open your wallet extension.
  3. Connect your Waves.exchange to Ledger Nano.

You’re all set, you can now use your Waves.exchange!

Waves at your fingertips

Ledger Live is your one-stop platform for smooth and complete asset management. With just a few clicks, you can send/receive Waves.

*Buy, send/receive, swap, stake, and other crypto transaction services are provided by third-parties partners.

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The best way to keep your Waves coins secure

Secure multiple assets, including Waves using a Ledger hardware wallet. Your private keys, giving access to your assets, remain safe in a certified secure chip.

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Frequently Asked Questions

When you first buy token, you’re issued with two keys: public and private.

  • A public key serves as an address that can be shared with other parties to perform transactions.
  • A private key represents a randomly generated number that signs transactions and protects your assets from malicious attacks. If it gets compromised or lost, you won’t be able to access your wallet to spend, withdraw, or transfer your cryptos.

To safeguard and keep track of your keys, you can use online or offline wallets. Online wallets, also known as hot wallets, store private keys on systems or devices that are connected to the internet. Hot wallets are easy and convenient to use, however, they come with several drawbacks. Besides being susceptible to attacks and a honeypot for hackers, with hot wallets, the custody of private keys is often entrusted to a third party such as a crypto exchange, which means you never have full control over your funds. The safer choice are specialized hardware wallets that store private keys offline. Stealing private keys from a hardware wallet would require physical access to the wallet and corresponding PIN or the recovery phrase. What’s more, with hardware wallet, you don’t need to rely on third party custodians.

Ledger Nano is the industry-leading hardware wallet. With more than five million customers, Ledger Nano wallets have several layers of security that protect private keys, and hence your assets:

  • Your private keys are stored on secure element chips.
  • A PIN code and a 24-word recovery phrase are required to access the wallet.
  • Ledger Nano hardware wallets have been built using highly durable materials for protection against physical damage.

With full isolation between private keys and your computer/mobile, Ledger Nano wallets keep your keys secure and give you complete control over your cryptocurrencies.

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