Foundation also announced Envoy, a companion mobile Bitcoin wallet for the Passport Batch 2.
Foundation also announced Envoy, a companion mobile Bitcoin wallet for the Passport Batch 2.
Foundation Devices, Inc. has unveiled its new Bitcoin hardware wallet, Passport Batch 2, a thinner and cheaper update to its previous Passport Founder’s Edition.
The company also announced a new Bitcoin mobile wallet, Envoy, which serves as a companion app to the Passport enabling a more seamless experience in setting up and updating the hardware wallet.
“In light of recent events across the world, sovereignty and privacy are more important than ever,” said Zach Herbert, Co-Founder and CEO of Foundation, in a statement sent to Bitcoin Magazine. “At Foundation, we strive to make sovereignty accessible to each and every individual. I’m thrilled to announce Passport Batch 2 and its companion app, Envoy, which will make Bitcoin sovereignty more attainable than ever before.”
Foundation said in a blog post[2] the Passport Batch 2 features a scratch-resistant, high-resolution IPS color display, a removable standard form factor lithium-ion battery, a power-only USB-C port, meaning it doesn’t transfer any data, a physical power button, and an improved microSD card slot.
While Passport brings a whole new design, its underlying security maintains last year’s mechanisms. Batch 2 Passport uses a fast STM processor, a Microchip 608a secure element, an Omnivision cameracube, and an avalanche noise source for entropy, Foundation said. Passport’s hardware and firmware are “copyleft” open source[3], meaning derivative works are allowed
