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Your full node, your wallet.

Daedalus is the official full-node desktop wallet for Cardano. It downloads the chain, verifies every block, and signs every transaction locally. No remote servers in the middle. The wallet for users who want their security model to match the network’s, with multi-pool staking, DRep registration, and Catalyst voting built in.

What Daedalus Is

Daedalus is a non-custodial, open-source, full-node desktop wallet. Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Unlike light wallets that trust a remote server’s view of the chain, Daedalus runs its own node and validates every transaction independently. Hierarchical deterministic key management, encrypted local storage, hardware wallet bridges for Ledger and Trezor, and a single dashboard for funds, staking, governance, and voting.

Why It Matters

Light wallets are convenient. They are also a small surrender: you are trusting the wallet’s server to tell you the truth about your balance and the chain. Daedalus is for users who want neither of those compromises. For stake pool operators, DReps, institutions, and anyone who needs verifiable local state, the full-node experience is the right one. Security and self-custody, in the strongest form Cardano offers.

What Daedalus Delivers

Trustless verification of every transaction in your wallet’s history

Multi-pool stake delegation with full visibility into pool performance and rewards

DRep registration and on-chain governance participation in a few clicks

Catalyst voter registration

Hardware wallet integration for cold-storage signing

Six themes, accessibility settings, and full localization across major languages

The desktop experience for users who treat their wallet as infrastructure, not an app

What’s Live / What’s Next

Where we are

Daedalus is live across macOS, Windows, and Linux, with full Conway-era governance support: DRep registration, on-chain voting, treasury participation. Hardware wallet bridges, multi-pool staking, and Catalyst voting are all in production.

What’s next

A faster initial sync, lighter resource footprint, and a refreshed UI for governance. Sync performance and onboarding are the focus, with improvements shipping incrementally rather than in a single rewrite.

Roadmap

Open source. Releases published openly on GitHub, with public changelogs and contribution guidelines.

2024

Conway-era governance support live

2025

DRep voting, treasury participation in production

H1 2026

Sync performance improvements

H2 2026

Refreshed governance UI, lighter footprint

2027

Continued feature parity with governance evolution