iMarkett IOTA Cold Storage Wallets

There have been several hardware developments in the IOTA community that deserve recognition. Also recently someone created a private tangle and this has significant strengths that several other blockchain communities haven’t thought about.

The Rise of IOTA’s Hardware

New Fingerprint Encrypted Hardware Wallet

Hardware Wallets

There have been several attempts to create a hardware wallets so the IOTA community can have a better user experience for transacting their IOTA securely. Community developers have worked together to create software that will make this a reality. Popular hardware wallets, such as Trezor and Ledger, have had IOTA community developments but the IOTA Ledger development team has had more progress.

The IOTA Ledger Nano S Integration

The IOTA Ledger development team recently finished configuring IOTA functionalities to the Ledger and wanted to work on a web wallet so IOTA users could finally have their IOTA in their Ledger.

Although we have just heard that Trinity is 5~6 weeks away from beta, something big was not mentioned in the Trinity wallet features. Trinity wallet will be integrating the Ledger support the IOTA Ledger development team has been working on!

IOTA Ledger development team on Trinity integration.

I am very excited about the Ledger integration. If you don’t have a Ledger product, you can get one here.

Bart Slinger’s Trezor IOTA Wallet

Here is Bart Slinger’s Trezor IOTA wallet implementation. I have not found more information regarding this implementation and I believe he is the only one currently working on it. This implementation signs transactions and sends the remainder of the transaction to a new generated wallet address. If you would like to know how he created this check out his blog.

Other Wallets

Hardware IOTA Wallet on Arduino like ESP32 microprocessor by Sascha1337‏

This IOTA wallet implementation is still in its proof of concept phase but it shows some great promise!

“Address generation 188ms, signing tests soon” -Sascha1337‏

CarrIOTA’s Possible SBC Integration

This is Roman Semko’s CarrIOTA, an IOTA financial manager system with possible hardware integration. This will allow you to have control of several wallets that your IoT devices hold. Check out the details here.

“We are experimenting to make it work on an SBC (single board computer) such as Raspberry Pi, which you plug into your router at home, boot with a CarrIOTA SD-card and start using!” Roman Semko

IOTA USB Encrypted Wallet only for MacOs.

This is iMarkett’s IOTA Encrypted USB Wallets. These wallets are encrypted to your custom password and within it they hold a secure offline seed generator and the official IOTA wallet 2.5.7. When Trinity wallet is released, the USBs will use that wallet instead. These USBs are currently only for MacOs systems but we are working to make them for Linux and Windows operating systems.

To learn more about the security of this and how it works you can check it out here.

IOTA Masked Authenticated Messaging Hardware

Bosch Connected Devices released the XDK which is a great prototyping tool to create proof of concepts with several sensors. The XDK has access to IOTA’s Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM) in order to be able to encrypt the data such device would post to the Tangle and giving certain individuals access to such data with an encryption key. You can check out community developments here. If you’re interested in prototyping with this device you can purchase it through Bosch’s website.