Exodus is a self-custody software wallet for storing, sending, and swapping cryptocurrency from one app. It is a hot wallet, meaning the keys live on an internet-connected device rather than on offline hardware. The company behind it, Exodus Movement, was founded in 2015 by JP Richardson and Daniel Castagnoli, and the wallet has stayed focused on one idea since then: make crypto easy to handle for people who are not technical.
Custody sits with the user. Exodus is non-custodial, so the holder alone controls the private keys and the 12-word secret recovery phrase, and the company does not take possession of customer funds. That is the trade every self-custody wallet asks you to accept: you get full control, and you carry full responsibility for the recovery phrase. Lose the phrase and the funds are gone. Expose it and anyone can drain the wallet.
Exodus runs across more surfaces than most software wallets. It is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux on the desktop, on iOS and Android on mobile, and as a browser extension. The same wallet can sync across these, so the desktop and phone show the same holdings.
It is a multichain wallet rather than a single-network one. Exodus supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana along with a long list of other assets and the tokens that run on those networks, and it connects to Web3 apps across several chains. The wallet is best known for its built-in exchange, branded as XO Swaps, which lets you trade one asset for another inside the app without sending coins to an outside exchange first. Behind that feature, swaps route across multiple liquidity providers rather than a single venue.
Two other features round out what Exodus is known for. It supports staking for a selection of tokens, so holders can earn network rewards on assets that allow it without leaving the wallet. And it integrates with Trezor hardware wallets, which lets a user keep keys on an offline Trezor device while still using the Exodus interface to manage and swap, pairing the convenience of the software with the stronger protection of cold storage.
The design has been a defining trait from the start. Exodus has long positioned itself around a clean, approachable interface and around in-app support, an angle it sums up as removing the geek requirement and keeping design a priority. For someone new to self-custody who wants one app to hold a varied set of coins, swap between them and connect to Web3, that polish is the main reason the wallet gets recommended.