Ledger’s Upcoming Browser Extension Will See its Hardware Wallets Connected to Web3

Summary:

• Ledger is moving connected launching a browser hold connected Safari called Ledger Connect.
• Ledger Connect volition spot users of Ledger Hardware wallets connected straight with Web3 applications.
• Initially, Ledger Connect volition lone beryllium compatible with Ethereum and Solana.
• Ledger Connect volition archetypal beryllium compatible with the Ledger Nano X and Mobile Safari astatine launch.
• Support for Ledger Nano S Plus and Desktop volition beryllium launched aboriginal successful the year.

The fashionable crypto hardware manufacturing institution of Ledger has announced that it is moving connected launching a browser hold to let users of its hardware wallets to link straight to Web3 applications. Ledger’s ngo with the caller browser hold ‘is to go [the] easier and astir unafraid mode to acquisition Webs.’

Ledger Connect to Be Available connected the Safari Browser

According to the authoritative announcement by Ledger, the browser hold volition beryllium called Ledger Connect and volition beryllium disposable connected the Safari browser. Ledger Connect volition initially beryllium compatible with the Ledger Nano X hardware wallet and Mobile Safari. Support for the Ledger Nano S Plus and Desktop volition travel later.

Ledger Connect to Initially Support Ethereum and Solana

Ledger Connect volition besides beryllium initially compatible with Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) earlier expanding to different fashionable networks. The browser volition besides automatically power to the close web erstwhile connecting to a peculiar Web3 application.

NFTs and Crypto Will Be More Secure

The browser hold volition besides trim dependencies connected third-party wallets.  The squad astatine Ledger explained that Ledger Connect is besides focused connected preventing hacks and scams and keeping users’ crypto and NFTs safe. It volition bash truthful by implementing a caller information furniture called ‘Web3 Check’.

The second volition automatically pass users ‘about the hazard and imaginable information issues linked to past scams, hacked websites, and fraudulent astute contracts.’

Ledger’s VP of Produce, Charles Hamel, elaborated that the institution continues its committedness to gathering the astir unafraid products. He said:

With each step, Ledger is continuing to physique the astir unafraid Web3 ecosystem. Ledger Connect is easy, astute and safe.

Easy due to the fact that it connects your wallet straight to your browser, with nary hackable bundle wallet successful the middle. Smart due to the fact that it lone requires 1 hold for aggregate blockchains.

And harmless acknowledgment to our caller diagnostic that warns you astir imaginable risks earlier you motion connected a instrumentality and that we telephone “Web3 check.”

How to Sign Up for Beta

Ledger Nano X hardware owners who privation to enactment successful the Beta signifier of the web browser hold tin travel the steps below.

1. Visit ledger.com/connect or https://get-connect.ledger.com/.
2. Sign up for a beta invitation with your Apple ID email address.
3. Proceed to hold for a fewer weeks to person an email invitation with a nexus to articulation TestFlight.
4. Go to the App Store to download TestFlight if it is not installed connected your iPhone.
5. Accept the invitation erstwhile you person it by email to instal the beta app.
6. Open the beta app and travel the instructions to adhd the Connect hold to Safari.
7. Send Ledger feedback connected your acquisition done the nexus they volition nonstop you.