Ledger Announces Atom Touchscreen Android Device

Ledger’s new Atom machine will ship with Solana’s Seeker app preinstalled, the firms introduced on stage at Ledger’s Op3n convention in Paris on Thursday.

Billed as a “signer” fairly than a {hardware} pockets, the Atom is an Android-powered touchscreen machine outfitted with a data-only eSIM and Ledger’s Safe Component, enabling customers to ship and obtain encrypted messages with different Atom customers in addition to carry out crypto transactions within the method of its vary of wallets. To take action, the machine switches right into a Ledger OS-powered “Safe Mode” for delicate operations reminiscent of signing transactions and authorising AI agent requests.

The Atom sports activities a 6.77-inch OLED show, rear digicam and 4,000mAh battery, and runs on a Qualcomm Dragonwing chip. It additionally incorporates a {hardware} privateness change that bodily cuts energy to the digicam and microphone.

The machine additionally runs third-party apps, and can come preinstalled with Solana’s Seeker app after Solana Cell named Ledger as its first {hardware} enlargement associate. Seeker combines Solana Cell’s pockets with its Solana dapp Retailer, which lists greater than 1,500 decentralized apps, and can seem on Atom’s residence display screen. Till now, the shop was obtainable on Solana Cell’s personal Seeker telephone.

Ledger Atom runs on the Android Open Supply Challenge, the free, open model of Google’s cell working system, alongside a Safe Component chip working Ledger OS. Its show and contact controls are bodily remoted from Android, based on the discharge, and approvals within the Seeker app occur in a “Safe Mode” backed by the Safe Component.

“Having the Seeker app on Ledger Atom from day one simply is smart, so Ledger customers get entry to the Solana ecosystem with out giving up any of the safety,” stated Ian Rogers, Ledger’s chief human company officer.

Solana Cell started opening its software program stack to different Android producers in March. Samsung Pockets additionally just lately added USDC transfers on Solana. Seeker has dealt with greater than $13 billion in transaction quantity and 154 million transactions, based on the corporate, which says it has offered greater than 200,000 units throughout Seeker and its earlier Saga telephone.

{Hardware} makers that combine the stack can earn rewards in SKR, the native token of the Solana Cell ecosystem, which additionally rewards customers and builders, the discharge stated.

Present Seeker telephones will stay absolutely supported, Solana Cell stated. Reservations for Ledger Atom are open now, although neither firm has given a worth or delivery date.

Ledger investigates tampered units

The Ledger Atom will embrace anti-tampering and tamper-evident options from the packaging to the machine itself, based on the press launch, together with methods to assist detect whether or not the enclosure has been opened, and can solely be offered by Ledger’s official website.

The announcement of the Atom comes at a clumsy time for Ledger, because the agency investigates tampered units in its reseller community linked to a suspected $87 million pockets drain.

The corporate this week disclosed that its Donjon safety workforce had discovered an implant in a {hardware} pockets offered by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis that captures restoration phrases throughout setup and sends them out over LTE. On Tuesday, it requested resellers in six Southeast Asian international locations and Hong Kong to drag its units from cabinets.