What is ERC20 compatible wallet?

ERC-20 wallets guide and a features comparison.
By Vadim Zolotokrylin Vadim Zolotokrylin
TLDR

If you've ever sent ERC-20 tokens to an exchange deposit address and watched them vanish, you know wallet choice is not a detail. You'll learn which wallets actually support ERC-20 tokens in 2026, how they compare across browser, mobile, desktop, hardware, and staking support, and why controlling your own private keys is the one rule that never changes.

Updated July 2026: corrected the comparison table (Ledger Live runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux) and clarified that control of your private keys, not the choice of wallet app, is what keeps tokens accessible.

Before receiving any ERC20 tokens, you need to have a secure and compatible wallet to keep these tokens. There are many wallets for cryptocurrencies, but not all are compatible with ERC20 Standard Tokens.

WARNING!

  • What protects your tokens is control of the private key, not the particular app. Any compatible wallet can access an address once you hold its key.
  • Prefer a wallet where you control those keys. A custodial exchange account can work, but only if that exchange supports the exact token and network you are receiving; an unsupported deposit is where funds get stuck.

List of ERC20 compatible wallets

  • MetaMask – provides solid experience in browser
  • MyEtherWallet
  • Trust Wallet – one of the best mobile wallets
  • Base App, formerly Coinbase Wallet – mobile wallet by a famous exchange
  • Custonomy - trustless MPC custody and security platform
  • Ready – smart-contract wallet, formerly known as Argent
  • Pillar – good wallet with a unique twist and its own token
  • Rainbow
  • imToken
  • Coinomi
  • Enjin
  • MyCrypto
  • Status Wallet
  • Opera is the browser with a built-in wallet.
  • Trezor - hardware wallet
  • Tokenpocket
  • ZenGo
  • Math Wallet
  • D'CENT Wallet - hardware wallet
  • Hyperpay
  • Ledger

A few wallets that used to appear on this list have shut down or migrated since: Portis closed in June 2025, Dharma wound down in early 2022 after OpenSea acquired it, and Authereum wound down in 2021 to refocus on Hop Protocol. Torus deprecated its legacy consumer wallet in July 2025 and migrated users to Web3Auth's wallet ( migration notice); balances stay accessible through the successor service. If you still hold funds in a discontinued wallet, recover them with your seed phrase in a maintained wallet or follow the provider's migration path.

Comparison of ERC20 wallets

In the Staking column, a check means the wallet has built-in staking of proof-of-stake assets or ETH inside the app itself. Wallets that only link out to third-party staking dApps count as unsupported.

NameChromeFirefoxBraveEdgeiOSAndroidOS XWindowsLinuxHardwareStaking
Custonomy
MetaMask
MyEtherWallet
Trust Wallet
Base App
Ready (formerly Argent)
Pillar
Rainbow
imToken
Coinomi
Enjin
MyCrypto
Status Wallet
Atomic Wallet
Ledger

Note on Atomic Wallet: it suffered a hack of roughly $100 million in user funds in June 2023, so weigh that history before trusting it with a meaningful balance.

Personal Recommendation

For your browser, I recommend MetaMask, one of the most secure and easy-to-use wallets, used by over 30 million monthly active users. For your mobile phone: Trust Wallet or Base App. Getting a wallet with MetaMask is relatively easy and straightforward. Please follow the instructions and you will get your unique wallet set up in less than 5 minutes.

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