pledgeBest fit
Long-term holders who want recovery, inheritance, or timelocked backup paths without giving up self-custody.
The review starts with the job this wallet is most naturally built to solve.
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Wallet review
Liana
Wizardsardine · Desktop · Last reviewed 2026-04-30
Long-term holders who want recovery, inheritance, or timelocked backup paths without giving up self-custody.
Key modelMultisig
HardwareSupported
Asset surfaceBitcoin-only
EvidenceHigh
Evidence
Why trust this view
Liana evidence summary
Slow down if
You want a simple mobile wallet or do not understand timelocks and descriptors.
This is the first tradeoff to read before treating the wallet as a fit.
Main risk
Recovery policies must be documented and tested; a misunderstood timelock setup can create false confidence.
Operational and recovery risk matter more than feature checklists for self-custody.
Source quality
2 public sources
High evidence quality. Official materials are linked below.
Control model
What you control, and what can still fail.
- Key model
- Multisig
- Recovery / backup path
- Descriptor-based recovery with timelocked spending paths for inheritance and loss recovery
- Hardware support
- Designed to coordinate with hardware signers and Miniscript-based policy wallets
- Open-source posture
- Open source (BSD-3-Clause)
Pledge take
Who should shortlist it?
Shortlist if
Long-term holders who want recovery, inheritance, or timelocked backup paths without giving up self-custody.
Pause if
You want a simple mobile wallet or do not understand timelocks and descriptors.
Primary risk
Recovery policies must be documented and tested; a misunderstood timelock setup can create false confidence.
Methodology
How this wallet is evaluated.
Recovery safety
Can a user recover under stress without handing unilateral control to a provider?
Key control
Who signs, how many keys exist, and whether multisig or hardware separation is available.
Ease of use
Whether the setup burden matches the likely user and balance size.
Hardware support
Whether long-term savings can use dedicated signing devices and coordinator flows.
Privacy tooling
Whether the wallet supports power-user controls such as PSBTs, descriptors, Tor, or coin control.
Evidence trail
Liana source receipt
No live quote. Wallet reviews use public materials for platform support, backup model, hardware support, open-source posture, and recovery risk.
OfficialLiana official site (lianawallet.com)
Self-custody Bitcoin-only wallet; multisig with Miniscript-based time-locked recovery paths; supports Ledger, Coldcard, Specter, BitBox ('any hardware wallet supporting Miniscript'); fully open source with reproducible builds; inheritance via configurable timelocks; optional Safety Net key-agent recovery.
Verified against source · checked 2026-04-30OfficialLiana GitHub README (official, wizardsardine/liana)BSD 3-Clause license; provides immediate (primary key) and delayed (recovery key after inactivity) spending paths using Bitcoin Script timelocks; supports multisig in primary and recovery paths; available on Windows, Mac, Linux as desktop GUI + daemon plus a web app.
Verified against source · checked 2026-04-30OfficialLiana docs USAGE / compatibility (official)Documents descriptor-based recovery, Miniscript policies, hardware signer compatibility, and self-custody (user holds all keys).
Verified against source · checked 2026-04-30Sources
Open the official materials before trusting any recovery model with meaningful funds.
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