You can send assets from your Argent Ethereum account to your Ledger wallet without any issues. However, if your Ledger wallet is also your guardian and you select this the guardian contact as a recipient for the transaction, the assets will go to your guardian address. This can make them harder to find. Since this process works differently from a regular transaction, this guide will help you through it.
As a quick background, a Ledger has multiple addresses and its primary address is NOT the one Argent uses as your guardian. We purposely use a different address, and one unlikely to be used for anything else, as it provides better privacy.
What Ledger address does Argent use as a guardian?
We use Ledger address #47.
I sent assets to my Ledger guardian but I now can't find them in my Ledger
If you can't see your assets in Ledger it may be because you're looking at a default address in Ledger, and not address 47.
To check if your assets are under address 47 in your Ledger:
1. Go to https://metamask.io/download to download the metamask browser extension wallet if you don't have it already.
2. Log into the wallet or create an account if you don't have one.
3. Press on your account name in the top middle of the extension.
4. Press "Add account or hardware wallet", then "Add hardware wallet". This will open a new tab in your browser where you can continue.
6. Select "Ledger" as the wallet, then plug in your ledger into your computer and enter the pin. Then open the Ethereum app on the Ledger device.
7. Press "Continue" in the browser, choose your ledger device in the window that pops up and press "Connect"
8. Press "Continue" and on the next page where it asks you to choose an HD path, select "BIP44 Standard (e.g. Metamask, Trezor)".
9. Press "Next" until you find account number 48. (You will need to connect your ledger every time you press next)
(Ledger's account numeration starts with 0 not 1, so account #47 will be shown as row 48)
10. Check in Argent that this is the same address as your guardian ledger. Open the mobile app and go to Settings > Wallet recovery > Review guardians to see the address.
11. If it is a match, check account 48 and press "Unlock". You will now have access to any funds sent to this address from Metamask.
Please contact support@argent.xyz if we can help.