How To Use Seren Skills With A Ledger Hardware Wallet

AI agent brain connected to Ledger hardware wallet via Seren Skills

If you use OpenClaw or Seren Desktop and you already keep your funds on a Ledger hardware wallet, you are in the exact group this workflow is for.

You want two things at the same time:

Hardware wallet security with the seed phrase offline.
AI-agent access to a dedicated wallet address that you control.

The good news is that you do not need to choose one or the other. With the ledger-signing skill in Seren Skills, your AI agent can prepare and run on-chain transactions while signatures still come from your Ledger device.

This guide is written for non-developers. No coding required.

Why Ledger + AI Agents matters

Most people trying AI trading or onchain automation get stuck in one of two bad setups:

Hot wallets with full private keys on the hard-drive, or in memory (fast, but risky).
Fully manual cold workflows (safe, but slow).

Ledger + Seren Skills is the practical middle: your key stays on Ledger while your AI agent handles repetitive steps.

Step-by-step: activate Ledger skill in Seren Desktop

Download and install Seren Desktop from https://serendb.com/install.
Open Seren Desktop.
Connect your preferred model provider: Claude subscription/API, Codex/OpenAI Subscription/API, or any supported LLM API key in Seren Desktop.
The Skills panel on the left will be open.
Search for ledger-signing.
Click the skill to save it to your thread and then click to activate it in your current thread.
Connect your Ledger device by USB.
Unlock Ledger with your PIN and open the Ethereum or any blockchain supported by Ledger.

At this point, your AI agent can run skill workflows that request Ledger signatures as needed.

Seren Desktop skills panel showing ledger-signing skill activated

What signing is supported right now

The ledger-signing skill supports these signing types:

transaction signing
message signing
typed_data signing (EIP-712 hashed mode)

That covers most real agentic workflows:

Standard onchain transactions
Sign-in and intent messages
Structured DeFi approvals/orders using EIP-712 typed payloads

In plain terms: if your strategy engine can produce the payload, the skill can pass it to Ledger for secure signature flow.

Important: how to allow agent signing sessions

For agent automation, you need a practical signing window. The recommended setup is:

Manually unlock Ledger with your PIN.
If your device supports it, extend auto-lock/lock timeout for the run.
Keep the device physically controlled while the agent is running.
Re-lock device and restore stricter lock timeout when done.

This is the exact balance between convenience and risk for short automation sessions.

Ledger hardware wallet in session mode with security warning indicators

Security disclaimer you should always follow

Extended unlocked sessions are less physically secure. Anyone with physical access to your unlocked device may be able to approve or sign transactions.

That is why session control matters:

Use this only in a trusted location.
Keep session windows short.
Stay near the device during live execution.

Combining Ledger signing with strategy skills

Ledger signing becomes much more powerful when paired with strategy skills.

Two good examples:

Curve Yield Trader skill
Spectra Finance skills

Typical pattern:

Agent discovers opportunities and prepares transactions.
Agent routes each signature request to Ledger via ledger-signing.
Signed transactions are returned and broadcast.
Agent continues management loop (rebalance, monitor, repeat).

This gives you agentic execution while preserving hardware-wallet trust boundaries.

Agentic DeFi loop: strategy skill → build transaction → Ledger signing → broadcast

For non-developers, that means one major upgrade: you no longer need to manually perform every repetitive step in a DeFi strategy, but you still keep Ledger in the trust path.

Non-developer checklist before your first live run

Use this checklist exactly once, then keep it as your pre-flight routine:

Install Seren Desktop and Sign up to SerenDB so you can log in.
Add your LLM provider key/subscription (Claude, Codex, or another supported model).
Activate ledger-signing skill.
Activate your strategy skill (for example Curve Yield Trader or Spectra).
Connect Ledger, unlock PIN, open Ethereum app.
Set a temporary longer lock timeout if needed.
Start with a dry run or smallest trade size.
Watch every prompt on-device.
End run, re-lock device, restore stricter timeout.

If you follow this process, you get speed from agents without giving up device-level signing security.

Start now

If you have a Ledger and you are already using OpenClaw or thinking about Seren Desktop, this is the fastest way Agents can automate payload prep and submission. Nonetheless, every Ledger signature still requires on-device human approval.

Download Seren Desktop: https://serendb.com/install
Browse and use skills, including ledger-signing, in the Seren Skills repo: https://github.com/serenorg/seren-skills
Inspect the Ledger skill directly (ledger/ledger-signing): https://github.com/serenorg/seren-skills/tree/main/ledger/ledger-signing

Start small, keep your device secure, and let your AI agent handle the repetitive parts.

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