Ledger launches NFT-focused hardware wallet Nano S Plus

Ledger, a large supplier of hardware wallets designed for unafraid retention of cryptocurrencies similar Bitcoin (BTC), is launching a marque caller wallet specializing successful nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

The caller product, called Ledger Nano S Plus, is the adjacent procreation to the archetypal Nano iteration released successful 2016, and is designed with NFT collectors' needs successful mind, Ledger announced to Cointelegraph connected Tuesday.

The caller Ledger Nano S Plus is the sixth hardware wallet produced by Ledger since the institution introduced its archetypal wallet HW1 backmost successful 2015, the company’s main acquisition serviceman Ian Rogers told Cointelegraph. The merchandise is besides the archetypal hardware wallet that Ledger has released since the debut of the Ledger Nano X successful 2019.

The Nano S Plus combined with the caller enactment of “clear signing” exertion done Ledger Live aims to supply a safer idiosyncratic acquisition for Web3 customers.

While the caller Ledger wallet natively supports the unafraid absorption of NFT transactions, immoderate erstwhile iterations of Ledger wallets person besides been supporting NFTs, Rogers noted:

“Ledger Nano users person ever been capable to store NFTs connected their devices done partners, connected the Ledger Nano X, and present Ledger’s bundle exertion Ledger Live prioritizes NFT enactment wherever users tin presumption their NFTs successful Ledger Live and securely transact done wide signing.”

Clear signing exertion aims to supply each the details of a transaction, removing the hazard of "blind signing," oregon consenting to a perchance risky transaction, the enforcement explained.

Ledger main exertion serviceman Charles Guillemet antecedently warned users astir risks of unsighted signing of blockchain transactions successful the aftermath of a major phishing attack targeting the world’s largest NFT marketplace OpenSea successful February.

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The latest quality comes soon aft Ledger initially released a constricted edition of the Ledger Nano S Plus successful aboriginal March, dropping 10,000 devices for pre-order astatine $79 each.

Launched successful 2014, Ledger is 1 of the world’s largest providers of hardware cryptocurrency wallets, which are carnal devices designed to store a user’s backstage keys. The institution has sold implicit 4.5 cardinal wallets and launched six antithetic wallets truthful far, including HW1, Unplugged, Blue, Nano S, Nano X, Nano S Plus. The institution has stopped producing the archetypal 3 iterations truthful far.