Sia Wallet 2026 — what shipped, what's next.

For most of 2024 and 2025, Siacoin holders had no great wallet option. Sia-UI was deprecated in 2024 when The Sia Foundation restructured into renterd, hostd, and walletd. Walletd is powerful — it's the reference implementation from the Foundation itself — but it is developer-facing by design: JSON API first, UI second, onboarding treated as a 'figure it out from the docs' exercise. SiaCentral's web wallet stayed reliable for quick access but required browser-flag hacks for Ledger and offered no legacy seed migration from Sia-UI. Atomic Wallet kept working but had its iOS app pulled from the App Store and a 2023 security incident on its record. The third-party 'Sia Android' full-node app worked if you were willing to run a blockchain node on your phone.

Sia Wallet v2.12.0 is a consumer-first fork of walletd under MIT licence. It keeps every walletd capability under Advanced Settings — the JSON API is still there, the three index modes are still there, Docker deployment still works — and adds what a Siacoin holder actually needs on day one. A four-step first-run wizard replacing walletd's eleven-step setup. A built-in legacy seed migration assistant that accepts 28 and 29-word Sia-UI seeds, derives their addresses locally, generates a new 12-word BIP39 seed, and walks a funds-move transaction end-to-end in one flow. Native Ledger Nano S and Nano X support over USB and Bluetooth — no experimental Chrome flags, no driver installers, no command-line fallbacks. Default lite-mode sync that has a fresh wallet ready to receive SC in under 60 seconds. Dark mode. SC/USD price display (opt-in). Zero telemetry.

Sia Wallet is MIT-licensed at siawallet.tech — every line of code is public and auditable. The wallet is non-custodial: your 12-word seed and private keys are generated locally and never leave your device. There is no signup, no account, no telemetry, and no in-wallet fees. Download only from siawallet.tech/download — these are the two official mirrors, and they serve the identical file. In a domain where typosquatted domains and trojan binaries are a real concern, sticking to those two sources is the answer to 'is this Sia Wallet real.'

The most asked-for feature in the Sia community across 2024-2026 was a working mobile wallet. Native iOS and Android ships within 90 days of the desktop v2.12.0 launch. Both are built on the same open-source codebase as desktop. Both are lite-mode only — no blockchain download on a phone. Both require biometric authentication (Face ID, Touch ID, or Android fingerprint) on every outbound transaction. Both pair with the desktop wallet via QR code. iOS launches on the Apple App Store; Android launches on Google Play plus a side-loadable APK. A TestFlight beta for iOS and closed-beta APK for Android go out about 30 days before public launch — sign up on the Mobile feature page.

Mobile ships within 90 days. In the quarter after mobile, Ledger signing on mobile (Bluetooth Nano X) and Trezor support on desktop (pending upstream firmware integration). In the quarter after that, third-party independent audit of the consumer UI layer (walletd itself has Foundation-sponsored audits on record). Also on the list: Homebrew cask, winget, Chocolatey, and Flatpak packages for easier installation across distribution channels.

Sia Wallet is an independent MIT-licensed fork. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Sia Foundation. Fixes and improvements made downstream are offered back upstream to walletd where applicable — the CONTRIBUTORS file credits original walletd authors, and the repository is structured to minimise merge friction with upstream. The goal isn't to replace walletd; it's to give Siacoin holders a wallet that doesn't require them to become walletd experts first. Siacoin is a utility coin — a wallet for it should feel utilitarian in the good sense of the word. This release is the start of that work.