Which Kaspa wallet is safe? The list with zero affiliate links on it.

Search "best Kaspa wallet" and every list on page one earns a commission from its own ranking. This page earns nothing from your choice. Here is what the Kaspa community actually maintains, the two deprecated wallets still being recommended elsewhere, why your address keeps changing, and the five rules that keep your coins yours.
The short answer

On mobile, Kaspium. On desktop, Kaspa NG. In cold storage, Tangem or Ledger, both inside their own apps, with Cool Wallet, OneKey and SafePal as further options the wiki lists. For KRC-20 tokens in the browser, Kasware. All of them are listed by the community's own directory, and all except the hardware devices are free.

Just as important: two wallets you will still find recommended in old guides are deprecated — KDX and the old web wallet at wallet.kaspanet.io. And the only safe places to start a download are kaspa.org/hodl and the community wiki's wallet list — never a search result.

The wallets that are actually maintained

This table is deliberately short. It contains the wallets that are open about their code, visibly maintained in 2026, and listed in the community's own directory — not the twenty-entry lists that affiliate pages need to fit every referral partner in.

WalletWhere it runsCodeWhat to know
Kaspiummobile · iOS + Android your phone, keys on the device open source, MIT The standard mobile choice. Actively maintained — last release June 2026. KRC-20 support is not documented, so treat it as a KAS wallet.
Kaspa NGdesktop · win, mac, linux your computer, can run its own node source public Successor to KDX, written in Rust. Also exists as a web version — but in web mode your keys live in browser local storage, so prefer the desktop build for real amounts.
Tangemhardware · card + app keys on the card, never online vendor hardware Supports Kaspa natively in the Tangem app, including KRC-20 token management. The simplest cold-storage route today.
Ledgerhardware · in Ledger Live keys on the device device app open source Works inside Ledger Live. You install the Kaspa app from My Ledger, add a Kaspa account, and send and receive in the same window. KasVault still works and was the only way for a long time, which is why many guides still describe it as the only option.
OneKeyhardware · Classic keys on the device open source vendor Kaspa support announced by kaspa.org itself for the OneKey Classic.
Cool Wallethardware · card keys on the card vendor firmware Listed by the community wiki as supporting Kaspa since August 2024. Card format, pairs with a phone app.
SafePalhardware · X1 keys on the device vendor firmware Listed by the community wiki with its own setup guide for Kaspa.
Kaswarebrowser extension chrome + firefox open source The KRC-20 workhorse. Install only from the official store listing — clone repositories with the same name exist. A hot wallet, so keep sizes small.
CLI walletcommand line your machine, expert use guide in the wiki For people who run nodes and read documentation for fun. If you have to ask, it is not for you, and that is fine.
What you will not find here: exchange accounts sold as "wallets", and yield platforms. An exchange balance is an IOU, not a wallet — and what "Kaspa staking" platforms actually are, we covered on its own page.

Deprecated, and still being recommended elsewhere

This is where outdated guides actively hurt people. Two wallets that appear in years-old "best of" lists are officially retired by their own developers:

The general rule this teaches: a wallet recommendation has a shelf life. Check the project's last release date before trusting any list, including this one — this page was last verified on 18 August 2026 against the community wiki and, for the Ledger entry, against a screenshot from the running application.

Why your address keeps changing

The question every Kaspa newcomer asks, usually in mild panic: "my wallet shows a different receive address than yesterday — did something break?"

No. Kaspa wallets are HD wallets on a UTXO chain, like Bitcoin. Your wallet generates a fresh receive address after use for privacy, so outside observers cannot link all your payments together. The two facts that matter:

One real caveat

Seed phrases are not guaranteed to be compatible between different Kaspa wallets — the wiki maintains a dedicated compatibility chart. Before you wipe wallet A after importing its seed into wallet B, confirm the full balance actually shows up in B.

The five rules that keep your coins

  1. Download only via the two official directories. kaspa.org/hodl or the wiki wallet list, then follow their links to the store or repository. Never install a wallet from a search result or a link someone sent you — sites impersonating an "official Kaspa wallet" exist right now, and a documented "claim your Kaspa" airdrop site was draining wallets as recently as 2025.
  2. Your seed phrase is never typed anywhere except a wallet you are restoring. Not into a website, not into a "validation" form, not to support staff. The official wiki puts one scam pattern beyond doubt: any offer asking you to send coins to an address "for a new version" is, in their words, a 100% scam attempt.
  3. Nobody legitimate contacts you first. Not admins, not support, not "the team". Anyone sliding into your DMs about your wallet is the scam, every time. This is written in pinned messages across the official Kaspa groups for a reason.
  4. Test with a small amount first. kaspa.org's own advice: send a small test transaction, verify it arrives, then move the rest. And check the first and last characters of every address before confirming — malware that swaps addresses in your clipboard is a real category.
  5. Match the wallet to the amount. Pocket money can live in a hot wallet. Anything that would hurt to lose belongs on hardware, where the keys never touch an internet-connected device.
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deprecated wallets, KDX and the old web wallet, still circulating in outdated guides.
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how long an old receive address stays valid. The changing address is privacy, not breakage.
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where coins actually get lost. The wallet software is rarely the weak point, the inbox is.
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