IOTA Releases Public Beta of Firefly Wallet

According to the company’s announcement, a production-ready version of the Firefly wallet will be released for the Crysalis migration, set to go live on 28 April. The beta version of the wallet will give the community a “first taste” of what the future of IOTA has in store, the company said.

Thanks to two open-source Rust libraries that make up its core, Firefly can generate addresses and sign transactions in isolation from the rest of the application, enabling the wallet to add additional functions without exposing private keys.

Firefly has been in close testing for a few weeks and is currently in a “largely stable” state. In the weeks leading up to the Crysalis migration, IOTA will be fixing any remaining bugs and testing the Ledger Nano integration. The wallet has so far been audited by an external audit firm, but is set to undergo additional audits as new functionality is added to it.

Once Crysalis launches, the attention will shift towards building the mobile version of the wallet and exploring some of IOTA’s upcoming features, such as the addition of digital assets.