Key facts: Supported wallets are Trezor Safe 5, Ledger Stax, and Ledger Flex. Other improvements include connecting to Passport wallet via hardware menu. Sparrow Wallet, the desktop wallet for storing bitcoin, has implemented the 2.0.0 update. Among the highlights of the update are that Sparrow Wallet now supports three modern and newly released hardware wallets: Ledger Stax, Ledger Flex, and Trezor Safe 5. At the time of writing, all three wallets are not listed as hardware wallets to import into Sparrow Wallet version 2.0.0. However, this desktop wallet is now compatible with the latest hardware wallets. allows you to scan wallets connected to the computer's USB portsand by doing so, it recognizes the new wallets mentioned. This action allows you to create a new account or import the default account from the physical wallet.
You can open the default Trezor account or new ones in Sparrow. Source: Sparrow In addition to hardware wallet support, the Sparrow Wallet update includes: support for recovering a wallet using the standard SLIP39.
This standard is used to create mnemonic shares, which are fragments of a recovery phrase. Ideally, these fragments are spread across multiple locations and kept at a safe distance. To recover the original recovery phrase, a minimum number of shares is needed. Sparrow allows you to recover access to a wallet in this way, although it does not create the phrases or shares for a new wallet.
Sparrow is one of the most advanced privacy technologies for Bitcoin. Source: Sparrow
Other additions with Sparrow update 2.0.0
Importantly, Sparrow now supports importing Passport Foundation multisig wallets from the import menu on air-gapped hardware devices. The Sparrow team updated JavaFX to version 22, which now requires macOS 11 or higher and GTK 3.8 on Linux. This update helps make the wallet and its compatibility more efficient on those operating systems. Also, it added the BBQr option for QR code display in Krux wallets. BBQr allows sending larger files than can fit in a single QR as a series of QR codes (called “animated QRs”). This is especially useful for hardware devices that don’t have much memory to process large QRs. Additionally, Sparrow Wallet will now add missing previous outputs to Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT). When loading a PSBT into Sparrow, the software will try to automatically add them if they are available. This ensures that the PSBT has the necessary information of the chain and the signing process is more reliable. It also added several warnings when an action in Sparrow could produce critical consequences, such as when a rate exceeds the maximum allowed range. The remaining updates focused on bug fixes and on optimizing the code and user experience.