Ledger and Trezor 2025 hardware wallets released: What’s new for users?

Major hardware crypto wallet providers Ledger and Trezor person some released caller wallet iterations, giving users further options to safeguard their assets done self-custody.

Paris-based Ledger introduced its latest device, the Ledger Nano Gen5, connected Thursday. In a notable shift, the institution has dropped the word “hardware wallet” entirely, present referring to each its devices arsenic “Ledger signers.”

Rival hardware wallet institution Trezor, based successful Prague, besides released its Trezor Safe 7 earlier this week, describing the instrumentality arsenic its archetypal quantum-ready hardware wallet.

As some Ledger and Trezor person been supplying self-custody devices for implicit a decade, Cointelegraph took a person look astatine their latest wallets, breaking down the cardinal updates, caller features and information enhancements.

The epoch of Ledger signers

The Ledger update brings aggregate marque novelties, including rebranding the Ledger Live exertion arsenic Ledger Wallet and introducing Ledger Multisig, a instrumentality to code the blind signing vulnerability successful the multisig ecosystem.

The caller Ledger signer — the Nano Gen5 — features the June-released Ledger Recovery Key, previously-supported Bluetooth transportation and a bigger screen. The instrumentality is priced astatine $179 successful the US and 179 euros successful Europe.

“Ledger Nano brings the improved idiosyncratic acquisition from our unafraid touchscreen signers, Ledger Flex and Ledger Stax, successful a much affordable package,” a Ledger spokesperson told Cointelegraph.

Source: Ledger

“The bigger surface vs the Nano S Plus and Nano X enables a much intuitive interface, arsenic good arsenic optimal enactment for wide signing and transaction check,” the typical added.

Continuing its Apple-inspired plan approach, Ledger’s caller instrumentality improvement again enlisted iPod creator Tony Fadell, who brought successful Apple icon decorator Susan Kare to trade exclusive badge artwork for the caller Ledger signer.

Safe 7 is Trezor’s archetypal quantum-ready wallet

Trezor’s caller Safe 7 introduces a next-generation hardware wallet featuring dual unafraid elements, Bluetooth, wireless charging and a quantum-ready design.

The dual-chip plan combines Tropic Square’s auditable TROPIC01 spot with an NDA-free EAL6+ secondary element, portion the summation of Bluetooth makes the Safe 7 the archetypal Trezor wallet susceptible of connecting wirelessly to iPhones and different devices. The wallet is priced astatine 249 euros.

Source: Trezor

The “quantum-readiness” of the Trezor Safe 7 means that the instrumentality is “technically susceptible of receiving post-quantum updates erstwhile the clip comes,” Trezor’s main operating officer, Danny Sanders, told Cointelegraph.

“Previous Trezor wallets, similar each devices presently connected the market, bash not see quantum-ready architecture,” Sanders said, highlighting Trezor’s aspiration to bring a caller meaning to hardware wallets being “built to last.”

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Quantum computing is inactive successful its precise aboriginal stages, helium added, predicting that it would instrumentality a agelong clip earlier it poses “any existent menace to existing cryptographic standards.”

Are older devices being phased out?

Despite some Ledger and Trezor introducing important updates to their self-custody technology, their erstwhile wallets are inactive functional.

“We don’t plan wallets with the anticipation that users volition cod them all,” Trezor’s Sanders said, highlighting the request to conscionable the divers needs of users arsenic the company’s main priority.

Sanders said each Trezor wallets are afloat supported and proceed to payment from ongoing information updates and enhancements.

“Ledger has ne'er released an update that makes immoderate older instrumentality obsolete,” a spokesperson for Ledger told Cointelegraph, adding that “there’s ever a constituent wherever it’s nary longer feasible to supply updates and enactment caller features for older products.”

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