Yoroi is a light-wallet for Cardano, which means that the whole blockchain does not need to be downloaded to run Yoroi.
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Yoroi can be easily downloaded as an app or browser extension and then used directly.
How to use Yoroi and what advantages it brings, we have collected in some Howtos:
By the way, the name Yoroi comes from a medieval samurai armor, the so-called Ō-yoroi:
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