Gate.io Rolls Out Bitcoin Hardware Wallets With Fingerprint Scanning
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Gate.io Rolls Out Bitcoin Hardware Wallets With Fingerprint Scanning

THELOGICALINDIAN - Gateio is planning to advertise accouterments wallets with appropriate fingerprint recognition

Cryptocurrency barter Gate.io has aloof launched its own cast of accouterments wallets. Called the Wallet S1, these are the aboriginal accouterments wallets launched by an exchange.

Gate Exchange Releases Hardware Wallet

Gate.io’s Wallet S1 has alone the charge for passwords, instead opting for fingerprint scanning to affirm crypto operations.

Fingerprint acceptance eliminates a key advance vector: Brute force attacks. For password-encrypted casework or devices, atramentous hat hackers can abide a alternation of countersign attempts until they auspiciously assumption the password. 

The CMO of Gate.io, Marie Tatibouet, said that the Wallet S1’s “world-leading fingerprint algorithm” blocks this threat. This affection does not assure the wallet from all threats, however.

In accession to the barter itself, the accouterments wallet will be a defended way to affix to GateChain, the exchange’s built-in blockchain network. 

“For enterprise-grade use cases, Wallet S1 can be acclimated in aggregate with a Vault abode at GateChain –a accessible alternation focused on security, to accomplish added assurance for ample calibration asset accumulator as a business or banking institution,” wrote Gate.io.

This is the aboriginal time a aggregation has launched its own accouterments wallet to affix to its built-in blockchain. In comparison, added platforms like Binance DEX, which operates on Binance Chain, action abutment for third-party accouterments wallets like Ledger to aegis user funds.

The accouterments wallet can be acclimated in bike with Gate.io’s web-based wallet alleged wallet.io pro. After logging into their dashboard, users can add an added band of aegis with Wallet S1. 

According to business materials, the accouterments wallet will be accessible in the abutting four months and priced about $50 per unit.