Overview
NMKR Paper Wallet is a free online tool that creates a printable Cardano wallet on paper. Quite literally a PDF you print out, fold up, and tuck away somewhere safe1. The PDF contains a fresh recovery phrase and Cardano addresses, ready to receive ADA, tokens, or NFTs. Once printed, the paper is the wallet. Anyone holding it can use the recovery phrase to claim the contents.
NMKR Paper Wallet is built by NMKR, a Cardano company that mainly makes tools for minting NFTs. The paper wallet is one of its free side products, popular for event giveaways, gift cards, or anyone who wants a simple offline backup for a small amount of crypto.
Key Features
- Outputs a single PDF. No account, no email, no signup. Press a button, download a PDF, and that PDF is the only copy of the wallet's recovery phrase1.
- Holds anything Cardano. ADA, Cardano tokens, and NFTs of any kind. The printed addresses work like any other Cardano address2.
- No data on NMKR's servers. NMKR has stated nothing is saved on their end. The PDF in your hands is the only record. If you lose the PDF, the funds are gone.
- Can be embedded on other sites. NFT marketplaces and event pages can plug NMKR's paper wallet tool into their own sites for letting visitors create paper wallets directly there1.
- Available in several languages. English, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
What to Expect
Using NMKR Paper Wallet is genuinely a one-page experience. Open the tool, pass a quick "are you human?" check, and download the PDF. The PDF shows the recovery phrase clearly, along with one or more Cardano addresses for receiving funds. Nothing else.
Once you have the PDF, the security model is the same as any wallet where you hold the keys: the recovery phrase on the paper is the only way in or out. Anyone who sees the paper can spend the funds, and if you lose it, no one can recover it for you. To redeem the wallet, you type the recovery phrase into any standard Cardano wallet (Lace, Yoroi, Eternl, etc.), and the funds become accessible.
Because this is a website that generates the PDF, the safety model also depends on trusting the page that generates the wallet and the device printing it. For larger amounts, the cautious approach is to print the PDF from a clean device (not your everyday laptop), check the addresses against a Cardano explorer before sending funds, and delete any digital copies of the PDF after printing. The Cardano Foundation's wallet guide covers general handling tips for paper wallets.
For small amounts (a few ADA, an NFT giveaway at a conference, a Christmas card for a relative), NMKR Paper Wallet is one of the simplest options on Cardano.
