Wallet Clients

A wallet client is a software that helps connect to blockchain networks, and provides a user interface to make it easy manage blockchain addresses. Most of the times a wallet client is a hot wallet or software wallet like metamask. Using a hot wallet to manage your private keys, comes with a lot of risk. Taking advantage of the software's infrastructure and use it only as a communication medium with the blockchain networks, combined with a hardware wallet, helps to effectively reduce the related risk, and conveniently manage your funds. Using a hardware wallet, together with a wallet client (hot wallet software), will never expose your private keys on any network.

Seriously consider combining hardware and software wallets, while this method comes with two big advantages:

1. You always have the security of a hardware wallet. Your privates keys never get exposed.

2. Easy and convenient funds management, using the user interface of a software wallet.

So we simply, highly recommend to use a hot-software wallet only as a client (medium), together with your hardware wallet (keys storage manager).