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If you delegate during epoch your first reward will be produced during epoch . Your reward will be calculated epoch and will show up in your wallet beginning of epoch .
IMPORTANT NOTE! Make sure to download your wallet from the trusted source. FAKE wallets exists and will steal you funds in seconds. We have listed correct links to trusted wallets below. Please also Google search the wallet, check the the URL is the same and that there are no typos.
Hardware wallets provide the best security for your private key since it never leaves the device when signing transactions.
Computers is vulnerable to viruses and key loggers that can steal you private key and therefore your funds.
Eternl wallet (former CCVault) is in our opinion the best Cardano lightweight wallet available. Light means it does not download the full copy of the blockchain to your computer, instead it fetches the transaction history from trusted servers. It supports dApps, HW-Wallets and Mobile devices. If using computer, we recommend using their chrome extension. (Firefox extension does NOT exist!)
Developed by community members AHLNET and Titan
Desktop/Mobile Extension-App
Yoroi is a lightweight wallet, installed as an app in you phone/ webb browser. Light means it does not download the full copy of the blockchain, instead it fetches the transaction history from trusted servers. Ability to connect and stake from a hardware wallets such as Ledger and Trezor.
Developed by EMURGO
AdaLite.io and/or NuFi.io(adalite v2.0). AdaLite is a light wallet alternative. Supports hardware wallets, Ledger and Trezor. Which one you use is up to you. NuFi.io is Vacuumlabs new wallet with Non-custodial ADA staking, CNFT gallery, In-app Cardano DEX.
Developed by VacuumLabs.
FULL-NODE WALLET(SLOW)
Daedalus is a full-node desktop wallet which means that it downloads full copy of the blockchain (transaction history) to your computer also ability to connect a hardware wallet.
Developed by IOHK
Youtube Tutorials