Byron Wallet Balance Transactions

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I started a Byron wallet a long time ago and transferred some funds. After that I did most of my wallet transactions on Coinbase and just left the ADA there. I got on the old computer a few years ago so I could reallocate my old ADA to a new wallet for staking, I ran the same Daedalus icon on my desktop. It synced within 24 hours and I created a Shelley wallet and swore I sent ADA to it. Now I am running it again after a few years and it is taking forever to sync the node. Days, even weeks and I’m only at 80%. Daedalus is showing that it is still Byron???, but I am positive I synced it since the Shelley release as I have a Shelley wallet seed phrase.

Still showing Bryon, one transaction has shown up, but I thought I had more on the wallet through another transaction. Do I have to sync the whole node to see any additional transactions, or is it safe to say that this is the only transaction in my Byron/Shelley wallet?

I can access the visible Byron transaction on Adalite, but it has a disclaimer about Byron wallets and that it may not be correct, which freaks me out and just creates ambiguity with the whole situation.

So, here is the cliff notes version:

  • Downloaded Daedalus a long time ago (2018 and have seed phrase)
  • About 3 years ago, synced Daedalus after Shelley release and sent ADA to a Shelley wallet (I have seed phrase)
  • Syncing same Daedalus now, but it shows as Byron and taking days to sync to 80%
  • One transaction is visible at 80%, but I swear there were other transactions
  • Do I need to sync the whole node to see all transactions?
  • Is there any issue not doing a new Daedalus install between the Byron and Shelley releases?

What am I doing wrong? Any thoughts are appreciated.

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So as long as you have all the seedphrases for your wallets you are fine.

Simply try to restore with both seedphrases on Adalite.io and see if you see the funds & transactions you mentioned.

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You can restore the Byron seed phrase in adalite.io and adawallet.io.

You can restore the Shelley seed phrase in any native Cardano wallet app – Eternl, Typhon, Lace, …

All of them should be able to show you what happened.

Just please make sure to use the legitimate ones. Follow links from a site you trust, e.g., https://cardano.org/what-is-ada/#wallets, maybe cross-checked with https://cardano-community.github.io/support-faq/Wallets/list/.

The warning on Adalite just means that you should not panic if not all shows up. You can’t break something by just restoring and looking at the wallet. Medusa/adawallet.io could still be able to see the whole if Adalite doesn’t or, in the worst case, you could wait for Daedalus to sync.

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Thank you for the feedback. That relieves a lot of my concern.

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When I ran Daedalus between Byron and Shelley, it should update the node automatically, correct? There isn’t a need to re-download the wallet from the Cardano site between releases?

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If you last updated Daedalus “a few years ago”, you definitely need a new version now. There were a few breaking upgrades in between. The last one just a few months ago.

It will take days to sync those years in between. Probably not much better than starting with a fresh install and syncing from the beginning.

But as we tried to tell: There is probably not a need to do that. Just check your wallet(s) in those light wallet apps. They only need seconds to check your past transactions and where the ADA are now.

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