Ledger Live Desktop – Secure Crypto Portfolio & Wallet App
The single gateway to manage, secure, and grow your crypto assets with uncompromised hardware protection. True ownership starts here.
Requires a Ledger hardware wallet to achieve maximum security.
The Unified Crypto Management Experience
Hardware-Backed Security
Ledger Live acts as the secure interface for your Ledger device. Your private keys remain physically isolated within the certified Secure Element chip, meaning no transaction can be validated without your physical confirmation. This crucial separation makes Ledger Live immune to all forms of software and online hacking attempts, providing peace of mind unmatched by software-only wallets.
Real-Time Portfolio Tracking
Monitor your entire crypto wealth in one intuitive dashboard. Ledger Live provides real-time market data, historical performance charts, and detailed transaction history across all supported assets. The application aggregates values from over 50 different coins and thousands of tokens, displaying your net worth accurately in the fiat currency of your choice. Custom alerts and detailed P&L metrics empower smarter financial decisions.
Ecosystem Integration
Seamlessly buy, sell, swap, and stake crypto directly within the application, all while retaining hardware protection. We integrate trusted third-party services that allow you to interact with the broader crypto ecosystem without ever compromising your keys. Access DeFi apps, manage NFTs, and grow your holdings from the Ledger Live interface, making it the central hub for your entire digital financial life.
Core Features: A Deep Dive into Functionality
Advanced Portfolio Visualization
Gain complete visibility into your investments. Ledger Live offers highly customizable charts and graphs, allowing you to view your portfolio's value over different timeframes (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). The integrated performance analyzer calculates your realized and unrealized gains, helping you benchmark your crypto strategy effectively. This feature supports deep categorization, allowing users to filter by asset type, blockchain, or custom tags for unparalleled organizational power.
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Buy, Swap, and Sell Integration
Execute transactions with confidence. Through integrated partners, you can purchase crypto using a credit card or bank transfer, exchange one asset for another seamlessly (swap), and convert crypto back to fiat (sell). Crucially, the final step of all these transactions requires verification and signing on your Ledger hardware device, ensuring that the entire flow—from purchase to secure storage—never exposes your seed phrase. This layer of security is mandatory for every single operation involving key management.
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Stake & Earn Rewards Securely
Put your assets to work without ever giving up custody. Ledger Live allows you to securely delegate or stake popular Proof-of-Stake assets like Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Polkadot (DOT) directly from the application. The rewards automatically accrue to your address, and all staking operations—including initial delegation and un-bonding—are validated by your Ledger device. This is the simplest and safest way to generate passive income from your crypto holdings while maintaining full, cold-storage security.
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Uncompromising Security: The Ledger Live Protocol
Our architecture is built on a simple premise: trust nothing and verify everything. Ledger Live facilitates this process, but the final, cryptographic signature is always performed by the hardware.
The Secure Element (SE)
Unlike software wallets, Ledger devices use a certified CC EAL5+ Secure Element chip—the same grade of chip used in passports and credit cards. This chip is designed to resist highly sophisticated attacks, physically protecting your private keys from extraction. Ledger Live only relays the transaction data to this chip, making it impossible for malware on your computer to access or manipulate your critical data.
WYSINWYS: What You See Is Not What Is Signed
A core Ledger security principle is integrity checking. Every transaction generated in Ledger Live is displayed for review on the trusted screen of your Ledger device. This ensures that a malicious program cannot tamper with the recipient address or amount after you've approved it on your desktop, a type of attack known as a man-in-the-middle attack. You verify on the trusted screen, and only then is the signing process initiated.
Seamless Firmware Updates
Ledger Live manages the necessary firmware updates for your hardware wallet, ensuring your device remains protected against the latest security threats and compatible with new blockchain protocols. This process is secure and authenticated, guaranteeing that only genuine, signed Ledger firmware is ever installed, preventing supply chain attacks.
Manage Over 5000+ Assets & Connect to the World of DApps
Ledger Live offers native support for all major chains—Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, Polkadot, and more—plus integrated management for thousands of ERC-20, SPL, and other tokens. The application constantly evolves to support the latest advancements in the crypto space.
Extensive Asset Compatibility
From the largest market cap assets to emerging DeFi tokens, Ledger Live ensures full compatibility and secure transaction signing. Managing multiple networks no longer requires juggling countless browser extensions or separate applications; everything is aggregated into one secure interface. We prioritize adding native support for chains that meet our strict security vetting process, guaranteeing stability and protection for your diverse holdings.
- Native support for 50+ blockchains (BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC, etc.)
- Full ERC-20 token management via Ethereum and other EVM-compatible networks.
- Simplified staking and delegating tools for select PoS assets.
- Direct management of NFTs (ERC-721/1155) and digital collectibles.
The Discover Section & DApp Bridge
Explore the crypto universe with confidence using the integrated Discover section. This feature provides direct, verifiable access to external DApps and services like decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and NFT marketplaces. By utilizing WalletConnect integrated directly into Ledger Live, you can interact with these decentralized platforms using the secure communication channel, ensuring that connection requests and transaction approvals are routed directly to your Ledger device's Secure Element. This hybrid approach allows for DeFi interaction while maintaining cold storage.
This commitment to security integration sets the standard for how DApp interaction should function, making complex decentralized finance accessible without compromising the critical security perimeter of your hardware wallet.