Liana

• Name: Liana
• URL: https://wizardsardine.com/liana/
• Category: Bitcoin wallet / loss-protection and inheritance wallet / miniscript-timelock self-custody infrastructure
• Tags: bitcoin-ecosystem
• Summary: Liana is a Bitcoin-only self-custody wallet built around timelocked recovery paths, multisig, and miniscript-based policy design. Its official materials position it less as a generic wallet and more as a loss-protection and inheritance-oriented control layer for long-term Bitcoin storage: users can define a primary spending path for normal use, one or more delayed recovery paths for disaster recovery or inheritance, and optional advanced multisig structures that remain enforced directly by Bitcoin script.
• What it does:
  • Lets users create Bitcoin wallets with an always-available primary spending path plus one or more delayed recovery paths enforced by Bitcoin timelocks
  • Supports singlesig, multisig, and more advanced “expanding” or “decaying” multisig setups aimed at balancing theft resistance with recoverability
  • Targets inheritance and disaster-recovery use cases by allowing backup keys or heirs to spend only after a chosen inactivity delay
  • Connects to Bitcoin through a local or managed full node, with the GUI able to set up a pruned Bitcoin Core node during installation
  • Supports hardware signing devices including Ledger, BitBox, Coldcard, Specter DIY, and Blockstream Jade
  • Ships as open-source desktop software plus a daemon / JSON-RPC architecture, with separate core wallet logic and GUI components in the public repo
  • Also offers an optional commercial “Safety Net” layer through Wizardsardine for cases where all user-managed recovery options fail, while the base wallet remains self-custodial
• Key claims:
  • The homepage frames Liana as “a simple self-custody wallet keeping your bitcoin safe no matter what” and emphasizes that timelocks are enforced by the Bitcoin network rather than by a trusted third party
  • The wallet page highlights taproot, miniscript, one-click node setup, coin control, multisig, no-KYC operation, and prebuilt templates for “Simple Inheritance” and “Expanding Multisig”
  • The GitHub README describes Liana as “the missing safety net for your bitcoins” and explicitly separates the wallet into a daemon exposing a JSON-RPC API and a graphical interface layer
  • The usage docs show a strong sovereignty posture: binary-signature verification, reproducible-install guidance, and Bitcoin Core / Electrum backend options rather than a hosted-account model
  • The product surface makes Liana best understood as Bitcoin self-custody infrastructure for recovery and inheritance, not just a consumer wallet UI
• Whitepaper: No canonical standalone Liana whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The strongest current sources of truth are the official site, wallet and plans pages, install/usage docs, quick-try guide, and the public GitHub repo / README; see ../whitepapers/liana-primary-sources-2026-04-28.md.
• Sources:
  • https://wizardsardine.com/liana/
  • https://wizardsardine.com/liana/wallet/
  • https://wizardsardine.com/liana/plans/
  • https://github.com/wizardsardine/liana
  • https://github.com/wizardsardine/liana/blob/master/doc/USAGE.md
  • https://github.com/wizardsardine/liana/blob/master/doc/TRY.md

Internal linkages

• Recovery-policy comparison point with a more opinionated consumer-facing shell: bitkey

• Broader Bitcoin self-custody workstation for multisig-heavy setups and policy orchestration: specter-desktop

• Last reviewed: 2026-06-02 UTC