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aqua-wallet

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AQUA Wallet

  • Name: AQUA Wallet
  • URL: https://aqua.net/
  • Category: Bitcoin-and-Liquid wallet / consumer payments shell / Lightning-and-USDt app
  • Tags: bitcoin-ecosystem
  • Summary: AQUA Wallet is mostly a Liquid-and-USDt consumer wallet that also exposes Lightning, not a serious Lightning control plane. Keep the note for the rail mix—BTC, Liquid assets, swaps, and dollar balances in one mobile shell—not because it belongs beside the stronger wallet-operation anchors.
  • What it does:
    • Offers a free, open-source wallet for iOS and Android
    • Positions the app as a self-custodial Bitcoin and Liquid wallet for sending, receiving, and managing BTC, USDt, and other assets
    • Markets support for Lightning, Liquid, and Tether USDt alongside Bitcoin buying, swapping, storage, and spending flows
    • States that it is non-custodial and that seed phrases are stored only on the user’s device, using Keychain on iOS or EncryptedSharedPreferences on Android
    • Frames the product around everyday financial use, especially for Latin America, rather than only around Bitcoin savings or long-term cold storage
    • Publishes the main wallet code in a public MIT-licensed GitHub repository under the AquaWallet organization
  • Key claims:
    • The homepage meta description says AQUA is a “self-custodial Bitcoin and Liquid wallet designed for fast, private, and easy transactions” and says users can manage BTC, USDt, and assets from one app
    • The homepage says users can “Save in Bitcoin and transact efficiently with Lightning, Liquid, and Tether USDt,” and also says they can swap assets and buy Bitcoin inside the product flow
    • The homepage says AQUA is “The first Bitcoin and Liquid wallet with built-in USDt support” and separately says it supports “Tether USDt native on Liquid and across the most popular USDt chains”
    • The FAQ copy embedded on the official site says AQUA is non-custodial, does not store or access seed phrases, and saves them locally on-device via Keychain or EncryptedSharedPreferences
    • The product positioning repeatedly says AQUA is designed for Latin America and frames the app as a “global passport to financial inclusion”
    • The public GitHub repository describes AQUA as “a free, open-source wallet for iOS and Android”
  • Whitepaper: No canonical standalone AQUA Wallet whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the official site and the public wallet repository; see ../whitepapers/aqua-wallet-primary-sources-2026-05-01.md.
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Internal linkages

  • Stronger Lightning operating-model anchor: phoenix-wallet
  • Closer Liquid wallet-and-swap comparison: sideswap

Control risk

  • Read AQUA as a convenience layer over stronger rails, not as a control-plane anchor.

  • Practical leverage sits in asset-support policy, integration choices, swap-path defaults, and the app-layer abstractions that can make Lightning and Liquid look simpler than they really are.

  • Last reviewed: 2026-06-03 UTC

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