Crypto exchange giant Coinbase has announced it will start supporting crypto hardware wallets, starting with Ledger. The two companies made the announcement at the Ledger Open conference, which is taking place in Paris on Dec 9 and 10. Ledger is a major supplier of cold hardware wallets, which store users’ private keys more securely than hot online wallets. Users of the Coinbase Wallet browser extension will be able to connect their Ledger hardware wallets, maintain self-custody, and have full control over their assets.
Coinbase mobile app will also support Ledger hardware wallets.
The partnership will be rolled out in phases, starting in the first quarter of 2022. Further down the track, the Coinbase mobile app will also support Ledger hardware wallets. Max Branzburg, VP of Product at Coinbase, said: “we’re excited to share more announcements on how we’re making Coinbase Wallet the safest and most secure way to participate in Web3 over the coming months.” Earlier, Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas made some big statements in her testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services this week.
Coinbase CFO claimed that Coinbase stores about 12% of all crypto across more than 150 asset types.
Coinbase’s CFO Alesia Haas claimed that Coinbase stores about 12% of all crypto across more than 150 asset types and said crypto was moving beyond simple coin swaps. “Nearly 50% of our transacting customers are doing something other than buying and selling crypto, which indicates to us that crypto is moving beyond its initial investment phase into the long-expected utility phase,” she said. The cryptocurrency exchange claims to have over 73 million customers globally, including 10,000 institutions and 185,000 application developers.
