I can’t retrieve my Cardano. All I have is the address it got sent to from Coinbase. I tried putting them in my Ledger but if I remember correctly, Ledger didn’t support it at the time. I have the transaction ID and address. Would you be able to tell me what wallet it’s in so I could try to retrieve it? Thank you!
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The wallet you used doesnt matter.
Did you use a Ledger at this time when you transfered your ADA?
Not possible.
Cryptocurrency coins and tokens are never “in” a specific wallet app and you cannot tell from the address which wallet app was used or even if it was a software or hardware wallet. The addresses all look the same and you can use arbitrary wallet apps to manage the same wallets.
What you can do: Use any wallet app (doesn’t matter if you used exactly that at the time) and import/restore everything you have – your Ledger as well as all seed phrases that you have lying around – in it until you find the one that has the ADA in it, that has the correct receive address, that has a transaction history.
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Yes. I did. But I seem to recall going to a different website since Ledger didn’t support it fully at the time.
I did try that. But ADA is nowhere. I need to be able to log in to that particular wallet as I need to be able to transfer it out or to move it to a more familiar wallet.
Could you please post the receiving address you sent your ADA to?
It is addr1q8w9jgd06he8l63c84n9luhrj70kvt8yrnr4dglwrcqt8z2053hyrgg3rjqkegp33r0wsdz9e5askt744dapsdncxcqslfhqkq
So either you try to connect your Ledger hw with a litewallet like Typhon to check if you see your funds there or if you didnt use your Ledger back then, you should have a seedphrase (most likely 12 or 24 words) which you would need to restore your funds.
I don’t understand. Which seedphrase do I use? I have access to all my wallets. I checked them all. There is no ada anywhere. It might be an account I used specifically just for ada and I forgot what site that is. If I open a Typhon account, would it show up even if thats not rhe account I moved it to?
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Whichever lite wallet you originially used to create your address ending in …hqkq, you’ll need to use the seedphrase (passwords) from that wallet. Using that seedphrase, it doesn’t matter if you restore the wallet in Typhon, Gero, Lace, Eternl, or Yoroi…all those wallets will restore your same address - addr1q8w9jgd06he8l63c84n9luhrj70kvt8yrnr4dglwrcqt8z2053hyrgg3rjqkegp33r0wsdz9e5askt744dapsdncxcqslfhqkq
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That address doesn’t really look like it belongs to a user wallet.
The 100 ADA you sent there, were moved out again completely a couple of hours later:
https://adastat.net/addresses/addr1q8w9jgd06he8l63c84n9luhrj70kvt8yrnr4dglwrcqt8z2053hyrgg3rjqkegp33r0wsdz9e5askt744dapsdncxcqslfhqkq
The transaction that did that took a whole lot of other inputs from other addresses belonging to the same stake:
https://adastat.net/transactions/3e0014220d75975536decfdb7e3ecb088c6a473a2508a142e0e972f00eaa8f6c
That is very typical for the deposit address of an exchange.
Conclusion: I’m 99% sure, you didn’t send to any self-custody wallet – seed phrase or Ledger – but to an account on an exchange – either by accident or on purpose, but forgotten since then.
Thank you. Yes, I think that’s what happened 
Sorry, can I clarify if you’re seeing the ADA in that address as staked? I am recalling that when I tried to keep it in my Ledger, Ledger directed me to another website. Is it staked currently or maybe is it stolen? You said it is combined with other addresses? What would this mean?