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METAMASK CURRENTLY SUPPORTS FIVE HARDWARE WALLETS:

 * AirGap Vault
 * Keystone (available on both Extension and Mobile)
 * Lattice
 * Ledger (available on both Extension and Mobile)
 * Trezor
 * NGRAVE ZERO (available on both Extension and Mobile)

All the aforementioned hardware wallets can be used with MetaMask Extension,
with Keystone, Ledger, and NGRAVE ZERO also being available on MetaMask Mobile.
We're working to offer more MetaMask Mobile integrations when possible.

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Am I in the right place?

If you're looking for an explanation about what a hardware wallet is and why you
should have one, keep reading.

If you're looking for support regarding your particular hardware wallet, scroll
down to the corresponding section.

If you're setting up a hardware wallet for the first time, take a look at our
User Guide for our recommended configuration.




WHAT IS A HARDWARE WALLET? AND WHY SHOULD I HAVE ONE?

Understanding hardware wallets means getting 'under the hood' of Ethereum a
little bit. Let's first take a look at what we mean when we talk about a
'wallet'. At first glance, it's an intuitive concept: it's a digital container
to hold digital money and other things. Just like, in a real wallet, you may
have some currency and some pictures of your cat or your family; well, in your
MetaMask wallet you have some currency and some CryptoKitties and an animated
GIF of a zombie. Pretty similar so far.

Well, it turns out that calling it a 'wallet' is a bit of a metaphor. It's a
good one in terms of how we experience it, but it doesn't accurately represent
what's happening, technologically. The contents of your 'wallet' actually
consists of the assets assigned to your address on the blockchain. When we send
ETH 'to' someone, it doesn't go anywhere; it's simply deducted from the balance
of ETH assigned to your address, and reassigned to the balance of the address
you're sending it to. Remember, a public blockchain is also called distributed
ledger technology, and all of our wallets are lines in that ledger; our
balances, our holdings, are the columns, and the Ethereum Virtual Machine is our
automated bookkeeper.

In this sense, MetaMask is'simply' a web application that sends requests to the
Ethereum blockchain: for information about what assets are assigned to your
address; to'send' tokens from one address to another, and so on. It does this by
using your Secret Recovery Phrase.

Your public Ethereum address is one half of a pair: a cryptographic key pair, to
be precise. The public half, your address, can be given to anyone without fear
of them being able to hack in and steal your funds. The private half, the Secret
Recovery Phrase (also known as a'seed phrase'), authenticates whoever holds it
as having full and complete access over the address and all accounts associated
with it. Remember: "not your keys, not your coins".

Now, MetaMask is extremely secure, and as long as no one has access to your
Secret Recovery Phrase (you wrote it down in a safe offline location, right?),
your account should be secure. There are many other factors that are outside of
the control of MetaMask and its security engineers: how safe your browser is,
whether someone gets physical control over your computer, or takes over your
computer using a virus, for example.

For this reason, we recommend that if you are storing any significant amount of
value in your MetaMask wallet—or simply assets that are important to you—that
you use a hardware wallet as a second line of defense.

With all that background out of the way:


TL;DR

A hardware wallet is a physical device outside of your computer that secures
your wallet's keys, and acts as a firewall between attackers and the contents of
your wallet.

In order to transact with funds secured by a hardware wallet, you will have to
interact with the hardware wallet in order to approve the transaction. This way,
even if someone somehow gains access to your MetaMask wallet, they will be
stopped from moving things out of it.


AIRGAP VAULT

 * Connect AirGap Vault to MetaMask
 * AirGap Vault - Android Play Store
 * AirGap Vault - iOS App Store


KEYSTONE

 * Binding your Keystone to your MetaMask Wallet
 * How to connect Keystone to MetaMask Mobile and send ETH
 * How to use Keystone with MetaMask Mobile for dApps through Wallet Connect
 * How to configure EVM chains on MetaMask Mobile
 * How To Benefit From Hardware Wallet Security Using Transparent QR Codes
 * For an understanding of Keystone's security value-added proposition, see
   here.
 * For advanced topics regarding Keystone's security features, including
   introducing custom entropy, read here.


LATTICE

 * For first-time Lattice users, make sure you're properly set up:
   https://gridplus.io/setup
 * See GridPlus' documentation on getting started using MetaMask and a Lattice
   here.


LEDGER

Ledger has broad documentation for users of MetaMask. Here are some that will
help get you started:

 * Connecting your Ledger to MetaMask Extension
 * Connecting your Ledger to MetaMask Mobile
 * I don't see my BEP-20 tokens in my Ledger Binance Smart Chain (BSC) account,
   what can I do?
 * How to access your Ledger Polygon account via MetaMask

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HAVING TROUBLE CONNECTING YOUR LEDGER TO METAMASK IN FIREFOX?

Due to changes rolled out in Firefox v112 onwards, you may have issues
connecting your Ledger to MetaMask in Firefox. This is due to the connection
method no longer being supported by Firefox. Ledger support describe a temporary
workaround here. Alternatively, you could try switching to a Chromium-based
browser for using MetaMask.


TREZOR

 * See Trezor's documentation regarding operability with MetaMask here.


NGRAVE ZERO

 * See NGRAVE ZERO's documentation regarding operability with MetaMask here.

Last updated on Nov 22, 2024 by oliver renwick
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