Since being founded in 2016 by Gavin Wood, a co-founder of the Ethereum project and the launch of the project last year, Polkadot has grown to become a top contender in the cryptocurrency industry. The coin ranks on the top 10 largest cryptocurrency projects by market cap and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down as it continues to add new features.

For people would like to have Polkadot (DOT) tokens in their portfolios, then, there are quite a number of top wallets that support Polkadot. This post provides a high-level easy-to-read guide into the top 4 Polkadot wallets.

1. Polkawallet

Polkawallet is a mobile wallet designed specifically for the Polkadot ecosystem including #Substrate, Laminar, Kusama, Acala, and potentially other coins that run natively on Polkadot. Polkawallet provides cross-chain accessibility to your DOT tokens, and it also helps you manage your tokens while also participating in the staking and governance all within the app.

Polkawallet is available as an iOS and Android app, there’s also an Android APK file for more technically savvy users. Polkawallet is functionally a hot wallet but it uses a unique offline cold signature model that combines easy access via the internet with network-isolated private keys that enables you to sign transactions offline with a QR code. The best part is that users retain full ownership of their private keys and you never have to worry that your Polkadot tokens will be stolen inasmuch as your private keys are not compromised.

2. Polkadot.JS browser extension

For people who want to store DOT tokens on something different from a mobile app, the Polkadot.js browser extension is a decent alternative. The Polkadot.js browser extension is an open source non-custodial wallet that helps you store and access information relating to your DOT tokens within a Chrome or Firefox browser interface.

However, being a browser extension, you do not need to navigate to any website or webapp but it enables you to access and manage your Polkadot accounts when interacting with DApps in-browser such that you can inject accounts or sign specific transactions. The best part is that the extension can sign transactions without revealing information about your DOT portfolio to the DApps.

3. Ledger Hardware Wallets

Beyond storing DOT tokens in mobile wallets and using browser extensions, the Ledger Wallet now supports DOT tokens for people who want the added layer of security that hardware wallets provide for storing cryptocurrencies. The Ledger wallet for storing DOT tokens is probably the most secure method for storing Polkadot because it helps you keep your tokens in cold storage.

The Ledger Nano X and the Ledger Nano S hardware devices now support the installation of the Polkadot app to manage DOT with the Polkadot web wallet. Ledger’s hardware devices are hardware wallets that lets you store your tokens and private keys in cold storage on a dedicated device that is not connected to the Internet.

4. Fearless wallet

Fearless Wallet, developed by Soramitsu, is another great wallet for storing Polkadot tokens. The wallet is a mobile wallet that works on both the iOS and Android platforms and it would be potentially integrated into Polkaswap DEX. Fearless wallet is a non-custodial wallet application that doesn’t store your account details with the creators; rather, all the data relating to your Polkadot tokens are stored with a private app space on your device.

Fearless Wallet is specifically designed to be user friendly while still providing the technical-savvy user with advanced features. Fearless Wallet is still in development and future versions will incorporate staking features, governance, payments, and credit card purchases.

Similarly, users can send and receive DOT tokens using their account addresses or using QR codes. Users can view summary and detailed view of transaction histories, and the wallet shows existential deposit to show that you don’t accidentally void your wallets.