Daedalus

Here you will learn about Daedalus, its features and its interface.

About Daedalus

Daedalus is a Cardano Wallet made by IOG (the developing company behind Cardano). It is a desktop application, which works with all major Operating Systems (Windows, MacOS and Linux).

Daedalus is a full node wallet. This means that unlike light wallets (e.g.Yoroi, Adalite etc.) Daedalus downloads a full copy of the Cardano blockchain and independently validates every transaction in its history. That way you get maximum security and completely trustless operation, without centrally hosted 3rd party servers.

Daedalus can be downloaded here: https://daedaluswallet.io/

The splash page from Daedalus' Website.

Let Daedalus sync to the blockchain

Once you have downloaded and verified Daedalus (see previous section) configure options as needed:

Initial Daedalus splash

Accept the Terms and Conditions:

Terms of Service checkbox

To check synchronisation progress you can hover over the circular arrows icon in the top right corner:

Once Daedalus has synced to the blockchain a check mark will appear in the top right corner:

Creating a wallet

Now it's time to create a new wallet! Choose a name for your wallet and a strong password (you will need this to authorise outgoing transactions):

Once you have noted and secured your recovery phrase you will be asked to enter it, as a means to confirm you have the correct sequence of 24 words. Your wallet is now created and ready to be funded, please wait for it to fully sync its transaction history:

Take your time to navigate Daedalus' interface and familiarise yourself with it. Below you will learn what to do in case you should loose access to your wallet.

Recovering a Daedalus wallet

Should you loose access to your Daedalus software for whichever reason (machine broken/lost/stolen), please use your mnemonic phrase to restore it. Choose restore in the following menu:

You will be taken to a menu, asking to choose what type of wallet to restore, flag Daedalus wallet:

When prompted for the kind of Daedalus wallet, choose 24 words (Shelley wallet):

This method of recovery works for older Daedalus wallets as well, and for Yoroi wallets.

Now it's time to enter your mnemonic phrase:

As you can see, once you enter your mnemonic phrase and verify it, you are prompted for a new wallet name and password. This was already noted above, and is important because:

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