Strategic Partnership: Ledger and Payward (Kraken) Unite Crypto Storage with Trading Access
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Keeping private keys while directly accessing the liquidity of a leading crypto exchange: this is the promise of the unprecedented alliance signed between Ledger, the French giant of crypto wallets, and Payward, the parent company of the crypto exchange Kraken. For many years, cryptocurrency investors have had to make a difficult choice: prioritize absolute security by keeping their assets on a hardware crypto wallet (cold storage), or maximize responsiveness by leaving their funds on a centralized platform to trade quickly. This dividing line is about to disappear. Payward and Ledger have just announced a major partnership aimed at directly connecting Ledger's security ecosystem to Kraken's trading and payment infrastructures. The first major focus of this agreement: the user experience on the Kraken platform. Clients of the American exchange will now be able to use their Ledger key directly from the Kraken interface to: Fund and withdraw assets. Validate and sign transactions. Thanks to Ledger's development kit (Device Management Kit) and Clear Signing technology, users will be able to precisely verify the details of their operations on the secure screen of their hardware device before validating them on Kraken. The integration also works in reverse. Payward Services, the group's B2B infrastructure arm, becomes an official integrated provider within the Ledger Wallet...
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