Wrapped Moonbeam wallet

What is Wrapped Moonbeam (WGLMR)?

Moonbeam gives Polkadot a full Ethereum-style environment - the same address format, the same RPC calls, the same tooling - with GLMR as its native coin. WGLMR is GLMR locked in the wrapped-native contract and reissued as a token at parity, which is what lets pools and routers treat it with the standard approve-and-transfer flow that native coins do not support.

Anything Moonbeam-specific about GLMR - its role in fees, in on-chain governance, in collator staking - applies to the native coin, not to the wrapped one. WGLMR is the trading and liquidity form. If you wrapped in order to use a DeFi app and then stopped, unwrapping returns the coin to its useful state.

Before you move it

• Gas is always GLMR. WGLMR cannot pay a fee, including the fee on its own unwrap.
• Moonbeam addresses are 20-byte EVM addresses. The same string exists on other EVM chains, and a transfer sent on the wrong one does not arrive.
• WGLMR only exists on Moonbeam; any GLMR you see elsewhere is a bridged token issued by someone else.

Tangem suits the unwrap-and-spend rhythm well: the card signs by touching the back of the phone, with no battery or cable involved, and the GLMR that covers the fee sits in the same wallet as the wrapped balance. The app names the network on the way out, so you can read it before you tap. Supported networks in Tangem (1): Moonbeam. Keeping both halves under one key keeps unwrapping simple.