diff --git a/lib/features/labels/adapters/labels_repository_adapter.dart b/lib/features/labels/adapters/labels_repository_adapter.dart
index 8586b546ae..7ecea15550 100644
--- a/lib/features/labels/adapters/labels_repository_adapter.dart
+++ b/lib/features/labels/adapters/labels_repository_adapter.dart
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import 'package:bb_mobile/core/storage/storage.dart';
+import 'package:bb_mobile/core/utils/logger.dart';
 import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/adapters/label_mapper.dart';
 import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/application/labels_repository_port.dart';
 import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/domain/label_entity.dart';
@@ -11,6 +12,21 @@ class DriftLabelsRepositoryAdapter implements LabelsRepositoryPort {
 
   @override
   Future<LabelEntity> store(NewLabel newLabel) async {
+    // Validate BEFORE writing: constructing a LabelEntity is what enforces
+    // its invariants (see LabelEntity._validateReference), and it must
+    // throw here — before the insert below — or a caller told the store
+    // failed has in fact already had its row persisted (the previous shape
+    // built the companion from the unvalidated newLabel directly and only
+    // constructed a LabelEntity afterwards, purely to shape the return
+    // value, by which point the row was already committed).
+    LabelEntity(
+      id: 0, // unknown before insert; only the validation side effect matters
+      type: newLabel.type,
+      label: newLabel.label,
+      reference: newLabel.reference,
+      origin: newLabel.origin,
+    );
+
     final companion = LabelMapper.newLabelEntityToCompanion(newLabel);
     final id = await _database
         .into(_database.labels)
@@ -36,7 +52,7 @@ class DriftLabelsRepositoryAdapter implements LabelsRepositoryPort {
     final rows = await _database.managers.labels
         .filter((l) => l.label(label))
         .get();
-    return rows.map((row) => LabelMapper.toLabelEntity(row)).toList();
+    return _mapRowsTolerantly(rows);
   }
 
   @override
@@ -44,7 +60,7 @@ class DriftLabelsRepositoryAdapter implements LabelsRepositoryPort {
     final rows = await _database.managers.labels
         .filter((l) => l.reference(reference))
         .get();
-    return rows.map((row) => LabelMapper.toLabelEntity(row)).toList();
+    return _mapRowsTolerantly(rows);
   }
 
   @override
@@ -63,6 +79,29 @@ class DriftLabelsRepositoryAdapter implements LabelsRepositoryPort {
   @override
   Future<List<LabelEntity>> fetchAll() async {
     final rows = await _database.managers.labels.get();
-    return rows.map((row) => LabelMapper.toLabelEntity(row)).toList();
+    return _mapRowsTolerantly(rows);
+  }
+
+  /// Maps each row independently and drops (with a log) any row that fails
+  /// [LabelEntity]'s validation, instead of letting `.map().toList()`
+  /// propagate the first bad row's exception and discard every valid label
+  /// in the same query. Every fetch method here feeds every label lookup in
+  /// the app (including the wallet transaction list's per-input/output
+  /// label enrichment), so one corrupt row used to silently blank out label
+  /// data everywhere it was read.
+  List<LabelEntity> _mapRowsTolerantly(List<LabelRow> rows) {
+    final entities = <LabelEntity>[];
+    for (final row in rows) {
+      try {
+        entities.add(LabelMapper.toLabelEntity(row));
+      } catch (e) {
+        log.warning(
+          'Skipping corrupt label row id=${row.id}: failed to map to a '
+          'LabelEntity',
+          error: e,
+        );
+      }
+    }
+    return entities;
   }
 }
diff --git a/lib/features/labels/domain/label_entity.dart b/lib/features/labels/domain/label_entity.dart
index 09e15d1bf1..9887266737 100644
--- a/lib/features/labels/domain/label_entity.dart
+++ b/lib/features/labels/domain/label_entity.dart
@@ -42,14 +42,20 @@ class LabelEntity {
   }
 
   void _validateTxid(String input) {
-    if (reference.length != 64) {
+    // Validates the passed slice, not the full `reference` field: for
+    // LabelType.input/output/publicKey, reference is `txid:vout` and would
+    // never pass a 64-hex-char check on its own — every well-formed label
+    // of those three types was being rejected unconditionally before this
+    // fix (the txid slice was already split out by the caller into
+    // `input`, but validation looked at the untouched full field instead).
+    if (input.length != 64) {
       throw LabelValidationException(
         'Invalid transaction reference: must be 64 hex characters',
       );
     }
 
     try {
-      hex.decode(reference);
+      hex.decode(input);
     } catch (e) {
       throw LabelValidationException(
         'Invalid transaction reference: must be valid hex',
diff --git a/test/features/labels/adapters/labels_repository_adapter_test.dart b/test/features/labels/adapters/labels_repository_adapter_test.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e63e2d134e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/features/labels/adapters/labels_repository_adapter_test.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+import 'package:bb_mobile/core/storage/sqlite_database.dart';
+import 'package:bb_mobile/core/storage/tables/labels_table.dart';
+import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/adapters/labels_repository_adapter.dart';
+import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/domain/label_entity.dart';
+import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/domain/new_label.dart';
+import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/domain/primitive/label_type.dart';
+import 'package:drift/native.dart';
+import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  late SqliteDatabase db;
+  late DriftLabelsRepositoryAdapter adapter;
+
+  setUp(() {
+    db = SqliteDatabase(NativeDatabase.memory());
+    adapter = DriftLabelsRepositoryAdapter(database: db);
+  });
+
+  tearDown(() async => db.close());
+
+  group('store', () {
+    test('never persists a row when the label fails validation', () async {
+      // A transaction reference must be 64 hex chars — this one isn't.
+      await expectLater(
+        () => adapter.store(
+          NewLabel(
+            type: LabelType.transaction,
+            label: 'test',
+            reference: 'too-short',
+          ),
+        ),
+        throwsA(isA<LabelValidationException>()),
+      );
+
+      final rows = await db.select(db.labels).get();
+      expect(
+        rows,
+        isEmpty,
+        reason:
+            'a rejected store must never reach the DB — validating before '
+            'the insert is the whole point of this fix',
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('persists a valid label and returns it with its id', () async {
+      final stored = await adapter.store(
+        NewLabel(
+          type: LabelType.transaction,
+          label: 'payjoin',
+          reference: 'a' * 64,
+        ),
+      );
+
+      expect(stored.id, greaterThan(0));
+      final rows = await db.select(db.labels).get();
+      expect(rows, hasLength(1));
+    });
+  });
+
+  group('fetchAll / fetchByReference tolerate a corrupt row', () {
+    test('a single corrupt row is skipped and logged, not letting it discard '
+        'every valid label in the same query', () async {
+      // Insert one valid row through the adapter (validated).
+      await adapter.store(
+        NewLabel(
+          type: LabelType.transaction,
+          label: 'payjoin',
+          reference: 'a' * 64,
+        ),
+      );
+
+      // Insert a corrupt row directly at the DB level, bypassing
+      // LabelEntity's validation (simulates data that predates a
+      // validation fix, or any other source of a malformed row).
+      await db
+          .into(db.labels)
+          .insert(
+            LabelsCompanion.insert(
+              label: 'corrupt',
+              reference: 'not-a-valid-64-char-txid',
+              type: LabelTypeColumn.tx,
+            ),
+          );
+
+      final all = await adapter.fetchAll();
+      expect(
+        all,
+        hasLength(1),
+        reason: 'the corrupt row must be dropped, not poison the whole batch',
+      );
+      expect(all.single.label, 'payjoin');
+
+      final byReference = await adapter.fetchByReference('a' * 64);
+      expect(byReference, hasLength(1));
+    });
+  });
+}
diff --git a/test/features/labels/domain/label_entity_test.dart b/test/features/labels/domain/label_entity_test.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b746355ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/features/labels/domain/label_entity_test.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/domain/label_entity.dart';
+import 'package:bb_mobile/features/labels/domain/primitive/label_type.dart';
+import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  group('LabelEntity reference validation', () {
+    final validTxid = 'a' * 64;
+
+    test('accepts a well-formed transaction reference', () {
+      expect(
+        () => LabelEntity(
+          id: 1,
+          type: LabelType.transaction,
+          label: 'test',
+          reference: validTxid,
+        ),
+        returnsNormally,
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('accepts a well-formed input reference (txid:vout) — regression for '
+        'the bug where the full reference was validated instead of the txid '
+        'slice, rejecting every well-formed input/output/publicKey label', () {
+      expect(
+        () => LabelEntity(
+          id: 1,
+          type: LabelType.input,
+          label: 'test',
+          reference: '$validTxid:0',
+        ),
+        returnsNormally,
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('accepts a well-formed output reference (txid:vout)', () {
+      expect(
+        () => LabelEntity(
+          id: 1,
+          type: LabelType.output,
+          label: 'test',
+          reference: '$validTxid:12',
+        ),
+        returnsNormally,
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('accepts a well-formed publicKey reference (txid:vout)', () {
+      expect(
+        () => LabelEntity(
+          id: 1,
+          type: LabelType.publicKey,
+          label: 'test',
+          reference: '$validTxid:1',
+        ),
+        returnsNormally,
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('rejects an input reference with a non-hex txid slice', () {
+      expect(
+        () => LabelEntity(
+          id: 1,
+          type: LabelType.input,
+          label: 'test',
+          reference: '${'z' * 64}:0',
+        ),
+        throwsA(isA<LabelValidationException>()),
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('rejects an input reference with a negative vout', () {
+      expect(
+        () => LabelEntity(
+          id: 1,
+          type: LabelType.input,
+          label: 'test',
+          reference: '$validTxid:-1',
+        ),
+        throwsA(isA<LabelValidationException>()),
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('rejects a transaction reference that is not 64 hex characters', () {
+      expect(
+        () => LabelEntity(
+          id: 1,
+          type: LabelType.transaction,
+          label: 'test',
+          reference: 'tooshort',
+        ),
+        throwsA(isA<LabelValidationException>()),
+      );
+    });
+  });
+}