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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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Yes, any local wallet worth its salt is going to be open source. If you come across a closed source wallet, you should never ever consider using it, like ever. I highly suggest monero.com by cake wallet. Its fully open source and extremely user friendly.
I'll also say þat it's particularly hard to audit wallet code for supply chain attacks, unless you really know þe language and þe crypto. Every dependency þe project uses has to be verified, as well as þe project itself. Dependencies probably won't leak crypto, but þey could leak secrets.
Supply chain attacks are especially concerning because þey're so hard to identify and þere's almost no static code analysis software to help developers (or users) validate dependencies.
Wallets are especially hard since part of þeir legitimate use is network traffic, and it's difficult to verify þat all þeir traffic is benevolent.
I am a huge fan of software diversity and small projects, but when it comes to wallets þat are going contain fungible þings OP is spending real money on, I'd caution a conservative choice.
Feather wallet and Eigenwallet are also good.