if you've never heard of NANO token, then you might soon enough thanks to the skyrocketing gas fees back and, irritatingly, in business when it comes to moving anything ETH-related or similar. Coins like Litecoin, Matic and NANO make it extremely easy to move crypto money without the crazy gas fees otherwise charged on other networks. And at the high points, ETH transfers are easily as much as $90 now with Bitcoin over $60k. Why they are related, I have no idea, but it trying to move anything on an ETH token is now only for the rich or whales.
Enter the NANO Wallet
In the meantime, those of us who are aware, are quietly switch crypto over to tokens that have minimal gas fees or we're mining in tokens that can be moved and swapped easily into prime coins. However, that usually involves having some kind of a compatible wallet to hold them, at least temporarily. For NANO, the Natrium Wallet is a very practical tool.
The login and set up is pretty straight forward. It's very much a bootstrap-style user interface with big buttons, nice contrast and a clean look. Once in the wallet app, which only works on mobile interestingly, the main management screen is a single-token approach for NANO. The user's total balance and value is at the top, and the latest transactions feed downward from top to bottom as transactions come in from the linked explorer network feed.
Features and Control
Settings control is managed by the gear wheel to access them first. Once in, the user has control of the network representative, security, themes, and a few other features. The theme choices are rather nice in terms of selection with some attractive color choices for dark screen and light.
The user can also set up multiple wallet address, like other wallets, and there is a bridge feature for paper wallet to Natrium as well, a bit handy for those ultra secret types who operate off-grid when not transferring.
Natrium wallet comes with all the standard send and receive capabilities, such as QR code translation, standard text input, and cut/paste compatibility, making it pretty much a snap to manage fund movement. There is also a frequent account feature for remembering addresses used regularly.
It Just Works Well
Personally, I use Natrium as a staging point for all my NANO collections. Once the balance gets to a target amount, then I usually transfer out to a swap and my desired destination coin in my core savings wallet. It's been pretty stable, very reliable, and the only burps I've ever had have really been associated with the NANO network itself versus anything with the wallet software. So, while I don't do arbitrary scores like 5 stars or X out of 10 points, I do give Natrium high praise for a very clean UI design, function, consistently reliable performance, and ease-of-use.
My two adds, if it were up to me, would be an extension of Natrium to browser, at least as an extension to Chrome for example. But the wallet as a mobile tool is still very good.
Secondly, if Natrium future designs could combine Ananos, RailOne, Banano and NANO on the same wallet, that would be ideal. Maybe in the future? Who knows.
