Overview
Coin Wallet is a free wallet for holding crypto across more than twenty different blockchains, including Cardano (ADA), Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Monero, and many more, from a single app. It runs as a desktop wallet on Windows, Mac, and Linux, as a phone app for iPhone and Android, and as a regular website you can open in any browser1. The wallet is operated by CoinSpace.
The project's pitch is straightforward: no account signup, no email, no ID checks, and only you hold the recovery phrase. Your keys are generated and stored on your own device, not on a company server2. The full source code is public on GitHub for anyone to inspect3.
Key Features
- No signup required. Skip the email, name, ID, and verification steps altogether. Create a wallet by writing down a recovery phrase and you're done2.
- Hold Cardano and 20+ other blockchains. Cardano sits alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Monero, XRP, and most major Ethereum-style chains, all under one recovery phrase1.
- Buy ADA with a card or Apple Pay. Fund your wallet with a credit card, debit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, or a bank transfer. No exchange account needed.
- Swap one coin for another. A built-in trading tool lets you exchange between any of the 20+ supported cryptocurrencies inside the wallet.
- Extra-private access if you want it. Coin Wallet supports running over Tor (a network that hides your location) and even has its own .onion address. That's useful if you'd rather not let the wallet servers see your IP address.
- Hardware-key support for the security-conscious. Sensitive actions can be locked behind a physical security key (the YubiKey kind), so even someone with your password can't get in without the key.
What to Expect
Setting up Coin Wallet takes a couple of minutes. You install the app, write down the recovery phrase, set a PIN or fingerprint unlock, and you're ready to receive crypto. Funding the wallet is unusually flexible: card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, bank transfer, or swap from an asset you already hold inside the wallet1.
Coin Wallet is built to be straightforward and broad rather than deep. The Cardano experience covers the essentials (hold, send, receive, swap, buy) but doesn't include built-in staking, governance voting, or connections to Cardano DeFi apps. If those features matter to you, a Cardano-native wallet like Lace or Eternl goes deeper for Cardano specifically.
The privacy posture stands out among multi-chain wallets: no signup, no analytics tracking, support for Tor and VPN routing, and a dedicated Tor onion service. Combined with open source code, that's a strong baseline for users who care about not being tracked.
