Seems like we are about to witness a new trend in the industry: blockchain-powered and crypto friendly smartphones. Not long ago we talked about a smartphone labeled Finney from a crypto startup named SIRIN LABS that aimed to offer secure storage for cryptos and news was loud about Huawei and their Bitcoin friendly approach of offering a BTC.com wallet in the AppGallery.

Now fresh out of the press Thenextweb.com reported that HTC, a well-known Android handset manufacturer, is looking into developing a new android phone that will be powered by blockchain technology. The project is named Exodus and it will offer similar features to the above mentioned Finney, like a built-in secure hardware wallet, but will also feature decentralized applications.

“Through Exodus, we are excited to be supporting underlying protocols such as Bitcoin, Lightning Networks, Ethereum, Dfinity, and more,” stated Phil Chen, HTC’s business and corporate development, in the original article. “We would like to support the entire blockchain ecosystem, and in the next few months we’ll be announcing many more exciting partnerships together.”

Cold storage will be the main selling point of the phone as it will be an integrated feature, but zero fee trading with peers that are connected to the same network via a similar phone is nothing to dismiss.

It is a great thing to see another huge smartphone manufacturer support the Digital Asset ecosystem considering that a major part of the population owns and uses these devices on a daily basis meaning that these can give a huge kick-start to the adoption of said technologies.