Hardware wallets

What you need

Add a hardware wallet

1. Select Add Account. Pick your wallet.

   

2. Follow the steps for your wallet below.
3. Check the account and balance. Select Yes, Continue. The account is saved as pending.
4. Sign the message on your device. The account becomes verified. See Verify ownership.

• Ledger
• Trezor
• COLDCARD
• Keystone

1. Plug in by USB. Unlock with your PIN. Open the Bitcoin app.
2. Connect it.
   • Desktop: select Connect Ledger. When you see … is connected, select Continue. Several Ledgers plugged in? Pick one and select Connect selected Ledger.
   • In a browser: select Next. Allow the connection prompt.
3. Control Center scans for accounts. Pick one if it finds several.

Desktop message	Fix
No Ledger detected	Check the USB cable. Unlock the Ledger. The screen updates when it appears.
Connection timed out	Check your Ledger. Select Try again.
Your Ledger was disconnected	Plug it back in, unlock it, and open the Bitcoin app.

Names: accounts are named like Ledger Live, such as “Bitcoin Native Segwit 1”. “Segwit” alone means Nested SegWit.Scan rule: Control Center checks account 1 of each address type. It checks account 2 only if account 1 has a balance, and so on. An account after an empty one is not found. Add it by xpub instead.

On the desktop app, close Ledger Live and other wallet apps first. Only one app can talk to the Ledger at a time.

1. Plug in. Unlock.
2. Select Next. Trezor Suite opens. Allow Control Center to read your device details.
3. Select Next. Choose the account in Trezor Suite. Come back to Control Center.

• Control Center uses Trezor Suite desktop if it is running. Otherwise it opens Trezor Suite Web in a pop-up. Allow pop-ups for Control Center.
• Taproot accounts are not offered. Trezor cannot sign the ownership message for them.
• The confirm screen always says “Account 1”. It still uses the account you picked.

1. Pick your model: MK2/MK3, MK4, or Q.

   

2. On Mk2–Mk4, choose By Airgapping. USB is not supported. Choosing With USB shows COLDCARD Setup Requires a MicroSD Card.
3. On the COLDCARD, go to Advanced/Tools → Export Wallet → Generic JSON. On Mk2 or Mk3: Advanced → MicroSD Card → Export Wallet → Generic JSON. If asked for an account number, choose yours (usually 0).
4. Upload coldcard-export.json. Select Connect Wallet.

On COLDCARD Q, show the same export as a QR code (press the QR button). Hold the screen up to your webcam.

Delete the export file from your computer when you finish. It holds your public keys.

1. Select Next. Allow camera access when your browser asks.
2. On Keystone, show your wallet’s export QR code. Select Ready to Scan.
3. Hold the Keystone screen up to your webcam.

Invalid QR code means you scanned something other than a Keystone wallet export. Invalid wallet export means Control Center couldn’t read it. Show the export QR again.Keystone accounts are treated as Native SegWit (bc1q…). If the balance looks wrong, add the wallet by descriptor with the right address type.

After you add it

• Balance looks wrong? See Troubleshooting.
• Stopped before signing? The account stays pending. Open it and select Continue.
• To rename, archive, or remove it, see Manage accounts.