DigiByte
No ICO. No company. No VCs. Just the chain.
Open WalletWhat it is
DigiByte is a proof-of-work chain that launched in January 2014 with no premine, no ICO, no founder allocation — and is still run by the community that showed up, not by a company that owns it.
Where Bitcoin picked a 10-minute block target for a settlement layer, DigiByte picked 15 seconds for a payments layer. Where Bitcoin picked one hash function, DigiByte picked five — so no single class of miner (ASIC, GPU, CPU) can dominate the chain, and no algo failure takes it down.
It has run continuously since 2014 without a foundation, a treasury, or a corporate address. If that sounds unremarkable, look at how few chains that describes.
What you can build on it
DigiAssets — a Layer-2 asset issuance protocol on top of DigiByte. Issue tokens, NFTs, identity attestations, receipts, and event-tickets that inherit DigiByte's multi-algo security.
DigiID is the companion — password-less authentication signed by a DigiByte key, no server-side account database to breach. Both have been live for years, with reference implementations and open specifications.
Everything settles on the base chain. No sidechain, no rollup, no bridge — assets and identity inherit the same multi-algo security that protects DGB itself.
DigiDollar (in active development) — see the experimental branch of the DigiAsset Core reference implementation at github.com/DigiAsset-Core/DigiAsset_Core (experimental_digidollar). The activation height was reached on mainnet in April 2025 (block 23,869,440 · AlgoLock hardfork).
Wallets
Places to hold DGB, ordered from most self-sovereign to most convenient. Recovery-first: every wallet below derives from a plain BIP39 seed you can move somewhere else. Per-card tags call out open source vs closed, and hardware vs software.
The canonical implementation — verifies every block yourself, no server involved. Windows / macOS / Linux. The trust floor everything else is measured against.
github.com/DigiByte-Core/digibyte
Recovery-first browser wallet. Import any BIP39 seed at BIP44/49/84/86, WIF import (both 0x80 and 0x9e legacy), BIP158 filter scans over a P2P daemon, Dandelion++ broadcast. TLS pinned to this name's on-chain tls record. Works in any browser (via the navigate.st gateway) — or dial the VPS directly with a BNS-aware client (Theseus / Ariadne) for the pinned-cert trust win.
Hardware wallet with open firmware and open Suite desktop app. DGB support covers legacy (D…), P2SH (S…), and native SegWit (dgb1q…) via BIP44 / BIP49 / BIP84 derivation on coin type 20. Seed is standard BIP39 — moves to any of the other software wallets on this page.
trezor.io
Hardware wallet with the widest coin coverage of any hardware line — DGB is a first-class asset in Ledger Live (desktop + mobile). Firmware is closed and the secure element is proprietary; the seed itself is BIP39-compatible, so recovery on another wallet works.
ledger.com
Biometric hardware wallet (fingerprint-unlock, Bluetooth or USB), CC EAL5+ secure element. DGB SegWit shipped in firmware 1.7.0. Firmware is closed source — the maker's stated position — so the trust story is "third-party audit + secure element" rather than "read the code."
dcentwallet.com
Electrum-DGB fork packaged as a native Apple app by Sigma Systems. BIP39 seed, self-custody, no account. Pure DGB — no multi-coin surface, no swap. A good "just DGB, on the phone" pick if you already trust the Electrum lineage.
apps.apple.com — DigiByte Wallet
Long-running multi-coin wallet (since 2014) — iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux. Non-custodial, no KYC, BIP39 seed you can export and move (this is one of the wallets whose seed round-trips cleanly with DigiByte Core / Trezor / DigiByte.X). Closed source — trust rests on the maker's history, not on reading the code.
coinomi.com
Widely-used multi-coin wallet with a polished UI, built-in swap, and Trezor pairing. Seed portability caveat: Exodus generates a BIP39 seed but historically won't import an external BIP39 seed for DGB — a wallet made in Exodus can be exported to Core / Ian Coleman / Trezor, but a seed made elsewhere can't be brought back here. Fine as a spending wallet you control end-to-end from inside Exodus; not the wallet to trust with rescue-flow recovery from another app.
exodus.com
iOS / Android multi-coin wallet from the ex-Airbitz team. Open source (both app and edge-core-js). Handles DGB with dynamic fees below a cent. Recommendation from the maker: use it for spending balances, not for the long-term stack.
edge.app
Community-audited HD derivation tool. Save the page and run air-gapped for real funds. The recovery fallback when everything else refuses to import your seed.
iancoleman.io/bip39Not listed as its own card: Atomic — will not import an external DGB seed and has no equivalent workaround. Trust Wallet, BitGet Wallet, and other broad multi-coin apps have advertised DGB on and off; check their current asset list before committing funds, and confirm the seed round-trips into DigiByte Core or Ian Coleman's tool before you rely on it. Wallet reviews are helpful, but signatures on release binaries and readable source are what actually verify the software you run.
Community
DigiByte is community-run — no company, no foundation, no marketing department. If you want to help or ask a question, these are the rooms people show up in.