

To ensure you maintain ownership, we recommend that NXS is held in the new Tritium Wallet.

Third party custody comes with a multitude of risks. If coins are stored on a centralized exchange or a mining pool, then that entity has full custody. The Nexus Wallet is the safest place to store NXS. Nexus provides individuals with economic freedom, and with this freedom comes true responsibility for the safety of your own finances. This is in direct contrast to a bank, in which the money held inside an account is legal property of the bank rather than the account holder. You personally own your NXS and Nexus Wallet, they are not owned or governed by a central authority. NXS is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that provides fast, low-cost, borderless, and secure transactions without the requirement of a bank or third-party intermediary. Alternatively, there is an introductory video available below. The following guides below walk you through the Nexus Desktop Wallet, from initial installation to the use of its core modules. The Nexus community consists of a diverse array of friendly and helpful individuals - one of which will point you in the right direction whatever your query.

If you have any Wallet related issues, or any general questions please join the Nexus Support Telegram Channel and post a message asking for help. Users with their old QT wallet backup need to migrate to the tritium chain. The Tritium wallet interfaces with the new Tritium chain and the old Legacy chain. The wallet empowers the holder to carry out a lot of functions and additional features can be enabled by the use of modules / dapps in a safe sandboxed environment. Advanced users can run the core as a daemon on servers or headless machines and can be accessed using a remote interface or via API’s. For normal users Interface and core are embedded for ease of use. It consists of the core and the interface. The Tritium wallet has been designed to be modular. NXS is not compatible with any other third-party wallet or hardware wallets due to the disparate architecture that manages keys and assets on-chain, resembling cloud services, along with increased security standards compared to other blockchains (512 bit keys compared to 256 bit keys). Nexus Tritium wallet is the official and only wallet to store and transact NXS coins and tokens on the Nexus blockchain.
