Hey everyone! We have a new beta app up and looking for some people to play around with it. It’s a re-publication of Ledger Unplugged, which is compatible with a number of wallets out there including Mycelium. We have not loaded the attestation certificate to the wallet, which takes up space and is not actually used for transacting.
App deployment
Getting the VivoKey Unplugged app on your Apex is the first step. To do this, we need to walk through manual delivery setup and deployment.
Open Fidesmo app on your phone. Go into “Settings”.
After deploying the app to your Apex, you will need to initialize it before you can use it. To do this, we currently have no mobile option. You will need a USB reader, Python, and some software from GitHub;
EDIT: Seems to work fine! Wallet support looks to be poor though, only Mycelium by first glance. But, it does work, although I’ve not sent any bitcoin using it.
After further analysis, Ledger Unplugged appears to be a dumpster fire. It does not support SegWit which omits bitcoin, and there are other issues. Primarily though it’s not actively developed anymore and the tech debt with this applet is huge.
Instead, we are exploring a pivot to
It’s all open source. The protocol is modern. The codebase is active. The java card applet code appears clean and straightforward. They have a ton of SDK options for different languages and platforms.
I can confirm the Keycard applet runs on Apex hardware and the Status App (Status — Make the jump to web3) is able to receive and send funds. The app is a joy to use compared to Mycelium …
This option “only” supports the Ethereum chain and all the different tokens, but no Bitcoin. I suppose you have to go though an exchange if you need some Bitcoins.
Not only does Ledger Unplugged omit BTC by not supporting SegWit, it is also an old enough codebase that it doesn’t really support any other cryptocurrencies
The alternative looks much better.
It works a charm! Some functionality provably missing, like factory reset, and no immediate process for PUK and pairing code, not that I know what its purpose is.
Receiving and sending works well, I found a nice test address to send eth to here Ways to support Amal / DT
Installed keycard applet and setup Status. Everything works great, thank you for the work you’ve done thus far on it.
I’m hoping in the future Status either starts accepting other coins that are not based on ETH or keycard becomes compatible with other wallets. I bought $10 whole dollars worth of ETH to test it, but would love to move my other coins to it.
I take it keycard and ETH are our only options for APEX at this point?
Just installed the BIP32 Wallet applet and it works great with status.im! Send and receive works perfectly and honestly faster than what I was using before.
