Source: Coinmonks

Compiler: Mary Liu

“It’s not your private key, it’s not your currency.” Veteran crypto players are already familiar with this sentence. The rise of Ordinals has made people confused about which wallets to use to participate in or keep personal Ordinals (inscriptions). This article will introduce three wallets suitable for BRC20.

UniSat Wallet

First up is the UniSat Wallet from Unisat.io. Website: https://unisat.io/, UniSat is one of the most popular ordinal wallets and one of the official wallets of Ordinal Protocol. It is also open source and non-custodial.

It has some limitations. For example, when you want to use the official wallet, you need to run a full node in the Ordinals wallet, which can store NFTs but cannot transfer them. UniSat Wallet, on the other hand, is a browser extension, which means it can be easily installed on the Chrome browser.

UniSat starts up very quickly and users can proceed as they normally would with any Bitcoin transaction. In other words, NFTs can be sent, received or stored if desired. Another important feature is that UniSat can instantly identify unconfirmed NFTs. This means there is no need to wait to see the inscription details. In fact, this feature alone makes UniSat one of the best options here.

How to get the wallet? Start by visiting the unisat.io website, or download it from the Chrome Store. Keep in mind that there are currently two very suspicious-looking apps in the Google Play Store. Don't download any of them. Official extensions are extensions found in links from websites to the Chrome Web Store.

XVerse Wallet

The second is the XVerse wallet, which appeared a day before the Ordinals wallet was launched, so it should be very mature from a technical perspective. Website: https://www.xverse.app/ordinals-wallet

The team's goal is to provide a state-of-the-art Bitcoin wallet available as a Chrome extension for Android and iOS mobile devices.

Functions it provides include buying, selling, storing, and of course recording Ordinals. The good thing is that with XVerse, users don’t need to run a node either, just Bitcoin to pay for transaction fees. The wallet mints the inscription using the gamma NFT marketplace, but users may have to wait approximately 20 to 30 minutes before seeing the NFT.

Minting your own Ordinals is easy with XVerse, just upload an image or text and send the transaction to the ordinal address, quick and easy. Users can buy and sell ordinal numbers on Gamma and Magic Eden, as shown below.

Additionally, the wallet offers a fiat option to purchase Bitcoin and pay transaction fees. The XVerse Wallet is also a non-custodial wallet, which means the assets in the wallet are the responsibility of the individual.

Wallet Ordinals

Launched on February 16, the Ordinals wallet was one of the first wallets to store and save Ordinals, with over 100,000 wallets created by users within the first week.

Website: https://ordinalswallet.com/

In addition to transfer, send, and mint functions, the wallet also provides name services. It’s worth noting that this wallet can only store ordinal and Bitcoin.

The interface of the wallet is very simple and clear, as shown in the picture, BTC can be purchased with fiat currency through Moon Pay. The unique thing about this wallet is that its operation and development are partly funded by the community. Like the two wallets above, the Ordinals wallet is non-custodial and offers features such as multi-signature support, two-factor authentication, cold storage, viewing transaction history, and more.