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# What Enclave is

What Enclave is, what it is not, and how it is different from other wallets.

Enclave is a self-custodial wallet for Kaspa. It runs entirely inside your browser as an extension. There is no Enclave server, no account to sign up for, and nothing of yours is held anywhere but on your device.

## Two parts, one wallet

**Enclave** is the interface: the popup, the side panel, and the full-page Studio. It shows balances, collects what you want to do, and renders the review you read before approving.

**SureSign** is the core: a signing kernel written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly. It is the only part of the wallet that can hold your keys, build a transaction, decide what a transaction means, or sign. The interface can ask SureSign to plan something; it can never sign anything itself.

This separation is the reason Enclave can make an unusual promise. The plain-language review you read is produced by the same component that signs, from the same bytes. The interface cannot change the meaning of what you approve, and after signing, SureSign decodes the signed transaction and checks that it still equals the plan you approved. If it does not, nothing is broadcast.

## What Enclave does

| Area                     | What you can do                                                                                                                                                        |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Kaspa                    | Send and receive KAS. Hold and transfer KRC-20 tokens, KRC-721 collectibles, and KNS names. Mint and deploy tokens and collections. Manage Notes (UTXOs) individually. |
| Igra                     | Use Kaspa's EVM Layer from the same account: iKAS, ERC-20 tokens, ERC-721 collectibles, INS names, and Igra dApps.                                                     |
| Exchange                 | Bridge between Kaspa and Igra with Kat Bridge, and swap on Igra with Zealous Swap.                                                                                     |
| Earn                     | Stake and supply with Lynx, Kaskad, and Zealous Infinity Pools; stake NACHO KAT collectibles for Power Points.                                                         |
| Vaults                   | TimeLock, Inheritance, and Last Will vaults, built as Kaspa covenants.                                                                                                 |
| Escrow and the Deal Desk | Arbitrated escrow with a counterparty, coordinated through sealed on-chain messages.                                                                                   |
| Websites                 | Connect to Kaspa dApps (KIP-12) and Igra dApps (EIP-1193 and WalletConnect). Every request is reviewed and approved individually.                                      |

## What Enclave is not

* **Not a custodian.** Enclave never holds your assets or your keys. If you lose your recovery phrase, no one can restore your wallet.
* **Not an exchange, bridge, or lending desk.** The providers reachable from Enclave (Kat Bridge, Zealous Swap, Kaskad, Lynx, and others) are operated by their own teams under their own terms. Enclave shows you their names and their fees on every review and stays out of the way.
* **Not a general EVM wallet.** Enclave speaks to Igra, and only Igra. It does not add other chains.
* **Not a tracker.** There is no analytics, no telemetry, and no account. Enclave reads balances from Kaspa nodes and public indexers and broadcasts the transactions you approve. You can point it at your own node.

## Consensus facts and indexed facts

Kaspa itself confirms KAS. Tokens, collectibles, names, and covenant directories are recognized by indexers, which are separate services run by others. Enclave keeps these two kinds of truth apart everywhere: a KAS balance is a network fact; a token balance is an indexed fact. When an indexer is unavailable, Enclave shows nothing rather than a guess.

## Where to go next

* [Install](/argon-docs/start-here/install.md) Enclave and [create or restore a wallet](/argon-docs/start-here/create-or-restore.md).
* Walk through [your first transaction](/argon-docs/start-here/first-transaction.md) to see the SureSign review.
* Read about [SureSign](/argon-docs/suresign/suresign.md) if you want to know exactly why the review can be trusted.