Your Trezor simply obtained Superpowers with WalletConnect: discover DeFi, NFTs & dApps
Switch your full trade stability to your new offline pockets
Conceal your machine and pockets backup
Don’t use for five months
Repeat the method
Once we launched the first-ever {hardware} pockets, the Trezor Model One, there was one main use for it:
HODLing.
I keep in mind nervously utilizing my {hardware} pockets for the second time about six months after setting it as much as make a brand new trade switch. I hoped the newest firmware replace (after lacking the earlier 5) wouldn’t wipe the machine, inflicting me to re-enter the pockets backup, which I hadn’t checked since setting it up.
As a result of who feels safe utilizing one thing only some occasions yearly? You neglect issues. Generally crucial issues… like a passphrase pockets, for instance.
This was frequent for a lot of customers. You saved the vast majority of your crypto offline, secured with a {hardware} pockets after which may need left a small quantity on an trade for buying and selling.
This meant that many long-term HODLers didn’t use their units for months at a time.
The crypto ecosystem has advanced to the purpose that almost all of us now use our {hardware} wallets weekly, even each day.
Which is nice as a result of it signifies that crypto shouldn't be going to be like gold… one thing that you just hardly ever use. It’s cash, and far more.
It IS changing into the monetary system.
And if that is as huge as we expect it's, our {hardware} wallets can’t simply be for HODLing.
That’s why Trezor Suite contains shopping for, swapping, and staking, all inside the safe setting of your Trezor. No want for these annoying trade transfers each 6 months!
Now in 2025, you don’t must sacrifice safety to discover every thing crypto has to supply.
The subsequent stage is dApps and the world of decentralized finance.
Right here’s what’s new in Trezor Suite…
We’ve teamed up with WalletConnect, the connectivity layer for the monetary web, to carry you a safe solution to join your Trezor {hardware} pockets on to 1000's of decentralized purposes (dApps) throughout a number of blockchains, with out compromising safety.
This implies accessing every thing beneath whereas retaining your keys safely in self-custody:
DeFI (decentralized finance)
NFTs (non-fungible tokens)
DAOs (decentralized autonomous group)
In case you’re into crypto and you've got a Trezor, you’re in all probability curious in regards to the world of decentralized apps. However leaving the safety of your {hardware} pockets isn’t interesting.
It means navigating third-party interfaces and switching between apps whereas making an attempt to maintain your property secure (in environments that aren’t at all times totally safe).
It’s a reasonably large leap to go from years of ‘not my keys, not my cash’ to exploring DeFI, NFTs and past with out the safety and peace of thoughts your Trezor offers.
That’s the place WalletConnect is available in.
WalletConnect is an open-source protocol that permits safe interactions between your Trezor and 1000's of decentralized purposes (dApps).
In case you’ve linked to a Web3 app, you’ve in all probability seen WalletConnect…
That blue brand?
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With billions in worth flowing by way of the WalletConnect community yearly, it’s develop into an icon of belief in crypto that’s as recognizable as Visa on the checkout.
You don’t must handle new, unsafe on-line ‘sizzling’ wallets or further pockets backups
All of it takes place inside the safe Trezor Suite setting with easy steps anybody can comply with
Your personal keys stay OFFLINE! Finish-to-end encryption protects all interactions; your personal keys are by no means uncovered
On Febuary 21, 2025, the trade Bybit misplaced $1.5 billion in a theft that focused Bybit’s chilly pockets.
That’s proper, their offline pockets. How? Blind signing. That is when a transaction is accepted with out full visibility into what’s being signed, often involving advanced sensible contracts that can't be totally displayed. Due to this issue, it’s develop into frequent to authorize transactions with out understanding all the small print.
Fortunately, when utilizing WalletConnect with Trezor, every transaction features a danger simulation powered byBlockaid. This checks whether or not there are any dangers related to the transaction.
Which means you get to examine the transaction earlier than it’s accepted and despatched.
Why it issues:
Detects scams, phishing, and malicious contract habits
Reveals what’s actually taking place behind the transaction
Helps stop token drains and unauthorized approvals
This added layer of safety helps you work together with third-party dApps with out compromising self-custody and safety.
As at all times, you, the consumer, are in cost. Regardless of displaying related transaction dangers, we'll by no means stop you from signing a transaction if you happen to nonetheless want to proceed.
That is solely the start of what we anticipate to be constructed round crypto. However Trezor will likely be right here, retaining your property secured each step of the best way.
