diff --git a/apps/desktop/electron/native-token-store.test.ts b/apps/desktop/electron/native-token-store.test.ts
index 83478b42e60..bf22b4cbde0 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/electron/native-token-store.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/electron/native-token-store.test.ts
@@ -326,3 +326,34 @@ test('an unusable keychain fails the write loudly and writes nothing', () => {
   // ...and must not clobber the tokens already on disk.
   assert.equal(broken.fileText(), before)
 })
+
+test('an encrypt that returns null is refused rather than blanking the stored entry', () => {
+  const existing = createFakeDisk()
+
+  persistNativeTokenSet(GATEWAY, TOKENS, existing.io)
+
+  const before = existing.fileText()
+  const nulled = createFakeDisk(before, { encrypt: () => null })
+  let writes = 0
+
+  // Spy that still delegates, so a stray write would show up in BOTH the
+  // counter and the file text.
+  const io = {
+    ...nulled.io,
+    writeStoreText: (text: string) => {
+      writes += 1
+      nulled.io.writeStoreText(text)
+    }
+  }
+
+  // A quiet null is the same failure as a throw and must be just as loud.
+  assert.throws(
+    () => persistNativeTokenSet(GATEWAY, { ...TOKENS, accessToken: 'AT-new' }, io),
+    /refusing to overwrite stored native tokens/
+  )
+  assert.equal(writes, 0, 'the store file must not be written at all')
+  // Byte-for-byte unchanged...
+  assert.equal(nulled.fileText(), before)
+  // ...and the original token set still loads, refresh token intact.
+  assert.deepEqual(loadNativeTokenSet(GATEWAY, createFakeDisk(before).io), TOKENS)
+})
diff --git a/apps/desktop/electron/native-token-store.ts b/apps/desktop/electron/native-token-store.ts
index 1adb00a5a20..b99c0aa9481 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/electron/native-token-store.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/electron/native-token-store.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ export interface NativeTokenStoreIo {
   /**
    * Encrypt one plaintext blob. main.ts passes the strict safeStorage helper,
    * which THROWS when the OS keychain is unavailable — that must stay loud.
+   * A `null` return is treated as the same authoritative failure: the caller
+   * throws rather than persisting an empty entry over good tokens.
    */
   encrypt: (plaintext: string) => StoredTokenSecret | null
   /** Decrypt a stored payload; returns '' when it cannot be read. */
@@ -76,7 +78,17 @@ export function persistNativeTokenSet(baseUrl: string, tokens: NativeTokenSet |
     // plaintext on disk. Deliberately outside the try below: an unusable
     // keychain is an authoritative write failure and must surface to the
     // caller, not be logged away as if the tokens were saved.
-    store[baseUrl] = io.encrypt(JSON.stringify(tokens))
+    const secret = io.encrypt(JSON.stringify(tokens))
+
+    if (!secret) {
+      // A null blob is the same failure as a throw, only quieter. Storing it
+      // would replace a good entry with nothing: the write would report
+      // success, the next launch would show signed out, and the refresh token
+      // would be unrecoverable. Fail before touching the store.
+      throw new Error('Secure token storage returned no encrypted payload; refusing to overwrite stored native tokens.')
+    }
+
+    store[baseUrl] = secret
   } else {
     delete store[baseUrl]
   }