Daedalus wallet

Create a Daedalus wallet in a few quick steps and start holding your ADA safely.

Daedalus is one of the most popular Cardano wallet applications in the community. Being open source and supported by Input Output HK, its one of the most trusted wallets to hold and manage your ADA.

Follow these easy steps to get started with delegating your ADA to a Stake Pool.

Download and Install Daedalus for your Operating System.

You can download the official wallet from the Daedalus website, https://daedaluswallet.io/.

Ensure you are on the right website and not downloading a fake version.

Install the wallet app by opening it and following the instructions.

Create Daedalus Wallet

Click "ADD Wallet" from the bottom of the app, and select "Create a wallet".

Give your wallet a descriptive name and create a sending password. This password is used to confirm that it is you that is sending ADA from this wallet or participating on the network using the wallet.

Create your 24 word recovery word phrase. This recovery phrase is used to restore your wallet on a new device or on a different wallet app such as the browser version of Yoroi or the Yoroi mobile app. The same wallet can be used across multiple wallet applications.

Ensure you keep your recovery phrase safe.

Create Daedalus wallet in one more step!

Click continue and finish creating your wallet.

Once you're done, you will need to sync your wallet with the Cardano network. The Daedalus app will download a local copy of the network to be able to quickly interact with it and pull in all of your wallets ledger activity. Since its a new wallet, you want see any transaction history.

You've now created your wallet ready to send, receive, delegate and vote with your ADA.

Learn how to delegate your Daedalus wallet to a Cardano stake pool.

Consider Delegating to Our Pool

We're a small, independent single stake pool operator. We've got a long way to go before we are completely self-sufficient and continuously producing blocks for the community. Our stake pool infrastructure costs money and time to support. Search for us with ticker: ADAOZ.

Learn how to delegate to us using Daedalus or delegate with the Yoroi wallets.

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Daedalus Product Features

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Daedalus - Cryptocurrency Wallet

Installation

Yarn

Yarn is required to install dependencies to build Daedalus.

Nix

Nix is needed to run Daedalus in .

1. Install nix: (use on macOS Catalina)
2. Employ the signed IOHK binary cache:
   $ sudo mkdir -p /etc/nix $ sudo vi /etc/nix/nix.conf # ..or any other editor, if you prefer
   and then add the following lines:
3. Run with correct list of arguments or by using existing scripts to load a shell with all the correct versions of all the required dependencies for development.

Development

Running Daedalus with Cardano Node

Selfnode

1. Run from .

2. Run from the subsequent (use environment variable to keep the local cluster running after Daedalus exits: )

3. Once Daedalus has started and has gotten past the loading screen run the following commands from a new terminal window if you wish to import funded wallets:

   • Byron wallets:
   • Shelley wallets:
   • Mary wallets: (all of which contain native tokens which are visible once selfnode enters Mary era)
   • Yoroi Byron wallets:
   • ITN Byron wallets:[Deprecated]
   • ITN Shelley wallets:[Deprecated]

   These scripts import 3 wallets by default. You can import up to 10 wallets by supplying environment variable (e.g. ).

   List of all funded wallet recovery phrases can be found here: https://github.com/input-output-hk/daedalus/blob/develop/utils/api-importer/mnemonics.js

Notes:

• Cardano wallet process ID shown on the "Diagnostics" screen is faked and expected to match the Cardano node process ID.
• Stake pool metadata is fetched directly by default (IOHK SMASH server option is not available).
• Token metadata is fetched from a mock token metadata server which is automatically ran alongside the local cluster (there is no need to run it manually)
• Daedalus will ask you if you wish to keep the local cluster running after it exits - this option is useful if you need to preserve local cluster state between Daedalus restarts.

Mainnet

1. Run from .
2. Run from the subsequent

Flight

1. Run from .
2. Run from the subsequent

Testnet

1. Run from .
2. Run from the subsequent

Staging

1. Run from .
2. Run from the subsequent

Shelley QA

1. Run from .
2. Run from the subsequent

Alonzo Purple

1. Run from .
2. Run from the subsequent

Native token metadata server

Daedalus, by default, uses the following metadata server for all networks except for the mainnet: .

It's also possible to use a mock server locally by running the following command in prior to starting Daedalus:

Then proceed to launch Daedalus and make sure to provide the mock token metadata server port:

This enables you to modify the metadata directly by modifying the registry file directly:

Use the following command to check if the mock server is working correctly:

... and expect a "200 OK" response.

Updating upstream dependencies (cardano-wallet, cardano-node, and iohk-nix)

is used to manage the version of upstream dependencies. The versions of these dependencies can be seen in .

Dependencies are updated with the follow nix commands:

• Update cardano-wallet to the latest master:
• Update cardano-wallet to a specific revision:
• Update cardano-node to a specific tag:
• Update iohk-nix to the latest master:

Notes

also provides a script for updating file:

Cardano Wallet Api documentation

Api documentation for edge version: https://input-output-hk.github.io/cardano-wallet/api/edge/

Externals

If you use any 3rd party libraries which can't or won't be built with webpack, you must list them in your and/or ：

For a common example, to install Bootstrap, and link them in the head of app.html

Make sure to list bootstrap in externals in or the app won't include them in the package:

Testing

You can find more details regarding tests setup within Running Daedalus acceptance tests README file.

Notes: Be aware that only a single Daedalus instance can run per state directory. So you have to exit any development instances before running tests!

Packaging

To package apps for all platforms:

To package apps with options:

Options

• --name, -n: Application name (default: Electron)
• --version, -v: Electron version (default: latest version)
• --asar, -a: asar support (default: false)
• --icon, -i: Application icon
• --all: pack for all platforms

Use to pack your app with options for macOS, Linux and Windows platform. After build, you will find them in folder. Otherwise, you will only find one for your OS.

Automated builds

CI/dev build scripts

Platform-specific build scripts facilitate building Daedalus the way it is built by the IOHK CI:

Linux/macOS

This script requires Nix, (optionally) configured with the IOHK binary cache.

The result can be found at .

Windows

This batch file requires Node.js and 7zip.

The result will can be found at .

Pure Nix installer build

This will use nix to build a Linux installer. Using the IOHK binary cache will speed things up.

The result can be found at .

A fake website allegedly belonging to the Daedalus crypto wallet is being marketed on the digital distribution platform Discord with the intention to scam users of their ADA holdings. 

The fake website identified by a Reddit user is luring users to perform updates on their Daedalus Wallets. In the Discord post, made under the fake Cardano Official Release account, the promoters note that it is mandatory for users to update their wallets without fail.

The post has attached a fake website where users can download and upgraded the wallet. Notably, the verified Daedalus wallet website is ‘https://daedaluswallet.io‘, while the address for the fake website is ‘https://daedaluswallet.one‘. Interestingly, the fake website mirrors the official Daedalus Wallet website by all features. 

The perpetrators are promising users that the new updated wallet comes with a host of features including the ability to convert crypto into fiat, more speed, and stability while terming the wallet as more robust. 

Daedalus wallet scams

Related

Notably, like other cryptocurrency-related products, the Daedalus wallet has previously fallen victim to crypto scams. 

Furthermore, early this year, several users revealed losing their ADA holdings after downloading a fake wallet on the Google Playstore platform early this year. 

Following the scam, Cardano’s parent company, Input-Output, warned users to be a careful ploy. 

“WARNING: We have been alerted to a SCAM site posing as the official Daedalus wallet site. Our domain ends in .io and ://NOT.net! Please ensure you download ONLY from our official site – linked here for your safety and security,” IOHK warned.

The scammers’ target of ADA comes in the wake of the crypto rising to new levels. By press time, ADA was trading at $2, having gained over 45% in the last seven days. 

The token has managed to break through key resistance, with assets targeting the $5 price mark. The Cardano network has recently received increased adoption with various use cases alongside continued network updates.

This year, with the growth of cryptocurrencies, wallet scams are on the rise, and fraudsters attempting to leverage the profits in the sector.