Lots of the early adopters of crypto (that’s you, if you are reading this near the publish date) are developers who spend time every day seated in front of a desktop machine. Those of you who take crypto security very seriously are locking most of your holding on a hardware wallet. But many of you also have some holdings on one or more browser-based wallets on your desktop. These so-called “hot wallets” are super convenient. They make it easy to pop in and send or receive some crypto, buy an NFT, and interact with online DApps … as long as you have a dedicated desktop computer!
In the future, if crypto is to achieve mass-adoption beyond the current in-crowd of computer geeks, having excellent mobile wallets will be of critical importance.
As of 2021, less than 50% of the world’s households have a desktop computer. (This number varies widely between regions… in the USA it’s as high as 90%; in Kenya, it’s below 10%)
With that in mind, we looked at some Cardano-oriented mobile wallets today, and evaluated them across a selected set of features.
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