Polkadot Wallet
Desktop Wallet for Polkadot
Manage DOT, assets, staking and governance — and review what you sign.
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Everything the chain lets you do, in one place
Create and manage Polkadot accounts, move DOT and ecosystem assets, and take part in staking and governance — without your keys ever leaving your device to do it.
Accounts
Create new Polkadot accounts or import existing ones, with several accounts and chains managed side by side.
DOT & assets
Track balances across DOT and ecosystem assets, with your spendable balance shown separately from your total.
Send & receive
Transfer DOT and assets with the network fee calculated and shown before you confirm anything.
Staking
Nominate validators directly or join a nomination pool, and follow rewards and unbonding periods over time.
Built around Polkadot Hub
Everyday wallet actions — balances, transfers, staking and governance — run through Polkadot Hub and Asset Hub. The Relay Chain stays underneath, providing shared security rather than handling user actions directly. The wallet follows that same structure, so the chain doing the work stays out of your way.
Shared security
Coordinates and secures the network underneath everything else.
Where activity happens
Balances, transfers, staking and governance are handled here.
Accounts & signing
Connects to the Hub to read balances and sign what you approve.
Nothing signs without your review
The wallet is non-custodial: your private keys are generated and stored on your own device, and are never sent to a server.
See it
Network, action, recipient, amount and fee are all shown before you approve anything.
Approve it
Sign locally with your device password, or with a Ledger or an air-gapped signer like Polkadot Vault.
Keep it
Your seed phrase never leaves your device. Backing it up safely is on you, not on a server.
Local, encrypted key storage
Ledger hardware wallet support
Polkadot Vault and QR-based signing
Backup reminders during setup
Staking and governance carry on-chain risk, including slashing. The wallet shows you the terms of each action — it can't guarantee an outcome.
A desktop app, not a browser tab
Staking, governance and account review need more room than an extension popup gives you. The desktop app is built around that — wider review screens and a window that isn't sharing space with your browser.
For multisig teams and advanced users
Where Polkadot supports it, the wallet exposes it — for treasuries, DAOs and anyone managing more than a single key.
Multisig approvals
Propose and co-sign transactions across multiple key holders.
Proxy accounts
Delegate specific actions to another account without handing over keys.
XCM transfers
Move assets across Polkadot's chains using native cross-chain messaging.
Governance delegation
Delegate voting power on OpenGov tracks you don't have time to follow.
Hardware & air-gapped signing
Sign with Ledger or Polkadot Vault for keys that never touch your computer.
Full transaction history
Review past activity across every account the wallet manages.
Open by default
The wallet is open-source and built in public. The wider Polkadot community — where the protocol itself gets discussed, shipped and governed — lives in a few places:
Questions worth answering plainly
No. This is an independent desktop wallet built for the Polkadot network. It isn't operated by the Web3 Foundation or Parity.
No. DOT and other assets live on-chain. The wallet stores or connects the keys used to sign transactions — it never holds your funds.
On your own device, encrypted, unless you choose a hardware option like Ledger or an air-gapped signer like Polkadot Vault.
Polkadot, Polkadot Hub and Asset Hub, with further Substrate-based chains added over time.
Yes to both. A Ledger signs without exposing your key to your computer; Polkadot Vault signs air-gapped, over QR codes.
No. Rewards depend on network conditions and validator performance, and staking carries risk, including slashing.
Your funds become unrecoverable. Back up your seed phrase offline before relying on an account.
No. It's generated and kept on your device and is never transmitted anywhere, including to us.
Yes. Each install manages its own local keys — nothing syncs automatically between devices.
Yes, using your existing seed phrase or by attaching a hardware or air-gapped signer you already use.