Best Crypto Wallets

Trezor's Safe 5 is the best mix of security you can check and a price most people can afford, which is why it scores highest. It uses a Common Criteria EAL6+ secure element, a color touchscreen and USB-C, and Trezor's comparison page shows the Safe 3, Safe 5 and Safe 7 all support standard 12-, 20- or 24-word backups plus multi-share backup, which splits recovery into several pieces so no single slip of paper can drain the wallet.

Trezor's firmware is open source, so outside researchers can read the code that runs on the device. That's the main reason it beats Ledger in our score. The Safe 5 product page listed it at $109 on Nov 1, 2026, with no sale label, down from its $169 launch price. A Bitcoin-only edition is also sold.

• Other models: the Safe 3 is the budget option, listed at $50 on Trezor's site (it launched at $79). The Safe 7, launched in October 2025 at $249 and listed at $211 on Nov 1, 2026, adds Bluetooth, wireless charging and a second, auditable TROPIC01 chip.
• Older models: Trezor stopped selling the Model One and Model T in its own shop on Jan 8, 2026, and says critical security updates continue until at least 2036.
• Watch out for: on Oct. 30, 2026, Trezor said it was treating as credible a report of a hardware implant in one Safe 5 bought from the reseller CryptoBilis, which it had dropped as a reseller on Oct. 9. Trezor hadn't examined the device yet, no losses had been reported, and it told anyone who bought from CryptoBilis since March 2026 to move funds to a new wallet with a new backup.

Trezor works with the Trezor Suite app and with outside wallets such as MetaMask. Read the full Trezor wallet review.

Ledger supports more coins inside its own app than any other hardware maker we compared: 500+ in the Ledger Wallet app (renamed from Ledger Live in October 2025), and thousands more through outside wallets. The Flex has an E Ink touchscreen, an EAL6+ secure element, Bluetooth and NFC, and pairs with phones and computers.

Ledger's line, per its hardware comparison page:

• Nano S Plus: $59, USB-C only, no iPhone support.
• Nano X: $99, EAL5+ chip, Bluetooth.
• Nano Gen5: $179, announced Oct 23, 2025, according to Ledger's launch post.
• Flex: $249.
• Stax: $399, the largest screen.

Prices are from the comparison table in Ledger's Nano Gen5 guide, updated Oct. 15, 2026.

Ledger scores lower than Trezor because the secure element firmware isn't open for public review, which Ledger says is required by its chip supplier's nondisclosure agreement, and because of its record. Ledger Recover, an optional paid service, encrypts your recovery phrase and splits it into three shards held by Coincover, Ledger and EscrowTech, with ID verification required. It's opt-in, but it means the device can export recovery data if you approve it, which some owners don't want.

The bigger issue is the October 2026 supply-chain attack. Ledger confirmed "an unauthorized hardware implant" in devices sold by the Malaysia-based reseller CryptoBilis and said every confirmed drain traced to that seller, according to BleepingComputer. An onchain investigator put the thefts at more than $86 million, a figure Ledger hasn't verified, and no compensation has been reported. Ledger says its own systems weren't breached. It's logged on our crypto hacks tracker.

Read the full Ledger wallet review, or visit Ledger to buy direct.

The Keystone 3 Pro never connects to your computer or phone by cable or radio. It has no USB data connection, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or NFC, and it signs transactions by scanning and showing QR codes, according to Keystone. That removes the cable and wireless routes an attacker could use.

It has three secure element chips, a fingerprint reader and open-source firmware, and supports 5,500+ assets, including Solana. It works with MetaMask, Solflare, Backpack and Sparrow. Keystone's own shop listed it at $149 on Nov. 1, 2026, as a pre-order shipping in four to six weeks.

Best for people who want maximum separation and don't mind scanning QR codes for every transaction.

Tangem sells a set of two NFC chip cards for $54.90 and three cards for $69.90, plus a ring with two cards for $160, on its pricing page. You tap a card to the back of your phone to approve a transaction, and the backup cards act as copies of the wallet.

Tangem is seedless by default: the private key is created on the card and never shown to you, so there's no 24-word phrase to steal. You can turn on a seed phrase if you want one. The cards use an EAL6+ certified chip, and Tangem reports 90+ supported networks and more than 6 million devices sold, according to its site.

The trade-off is that you depend on Tangem's phone app and on keeping at least one card. If you lose every card and never created a seed phrase, the funds can't be recovered.

The BitBox02 Nova from Swiss maker BitBox comes in two separate editions, Bitcoin-only and multi-coin, and you can't switch one into the other later, according to the BitBox shop. The multi edition supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, Litecoin and 1,500+ tokens.

Firmware is open source. The Bitcoin-only edition has less code, which means fewer places for a bug to hide. Check BitBox's shop for the price in your currency.

Arculus is a metal NFC card from CompoSecure, a public company, that pairs with a phone app and asks for a PIN and a fingerprint or face scan. Arculus says it supports 10,000+ coins on 27 chains, including SOL. The card costs $99 on Arculus's store.

It scores lower because it relies on the phone app for everything and supports fewer outside wallets.

Phantom started as a Solana wallet and now supports Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base, Polygon and HyperEVM, according to Phantom's documentation. Phantom dropped Sui support. It works with Ledger hardware wallets, and Phantom also offers a prepaid Visa card issued by Lead Bank.

Phantom ranks first because it combines a clean app with hardware wallet support and no major breach in our hacks data. Its App Store listing says you can stake SOL in the app. See our best Solana wallets ranking for Solana-specific picks.

MetaMask, from Consensys, is the default wallet for most Ethereum apps and now claims 700+ networks on its site. Its help center describes Solana accounts alongside Ethereum accounts. It connects to Ledger, Trezor and Keystone.

The SEC sued Consensys over MetaMask's swap and staking features and then dismissed the case in March 2025, which is recorded in our crypto fines and penalties tracker with nothing paid. MetaMask also offers a card that pays 1% back through partner companies.

Coinbase Wallet is a self-custody app that's separate from a Coinbase exchange account. The company holds coins in your exchange account, but only you hold the keys in Coinbase Wallet. You can move coins between the two in a few taps, which is why it's the easiest first wallet for people who already use the Coinbase exchange.

In 2025 Coinbase rebranded the app as the "Base app," but as of Nov. 1, 2026, base.app redirects to wallet.coinbase.com, which uses the Coinbase Wallet name. It supports SOL and Ethereum-based networks.

Exodus is a desktop and mobile wallet with a built-in swap feature and a polished portfolio view. Its App Store listing claims more than 1 million digital assets, offers staking for coins including ETH, SOL and ADA, and connects to Ledger and Trezor devices. for setup details.

Exodus loses points on its record. On Dec 16, 2025, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $3,103,360 settlement with Exodus for 254 apparent Iran sanctions violations between 2017 and 2019, including support staff advising Iranian users on VPNs. User funds weren't affected.

Trust Wallet supports 100+ blockchains in a mobile app and browser extension and is owned by Binance. A malicious release of its browser extension, version 2.68, was published on Dec. 24, 2025, and drained 2,520 wallets linked to about $8.5 million in stolen assets, according to Trust Wallet's incident page. Trust Wallet said it would voluntarily reimburse affected users, but its latest update, from July 2026, said claim reviews were still ongoing case by case and reported no completed total. The mobile app wasn't affected.