On June 26th, Zack Herbert, co-founder and CEO of Passport Devices, personally balanced Ledger’s decision to stop updating Nano S firmware and applications from 2025 to store cryptocurrency. Nano S. users experience quarantine
As reported by Cryptoics, removal of technical support corresponds to the old age of the device and its technical limitations. Nano s has been in the market for almost 10 years, I remember only 320 kb. This prevents the installation of different cryptocurrency networks. At the same time, its hardware does not support recent improvements from companies such as transaction checks and Ledger Sync™. The new model offers greater capacity and advanced features such as compatibility AppChains Chains such as Thorchain, Uniswap, Ton, Ada, Near, Avax, Dot, and more. These were arguments made by ledgers to justify discontinuation of device support.
This lack of support limits the scope of wallet interactivity and does not prevent users from using Nano, even as they assume certain risks to the safety of the device. This was stated by Charles Guillemet, CTO Ledger.
Passport CEOs, who are direct competitors of the ledger and are interested in bringing attention to its products, are aware of the points Guillemet shows, but highlights that many users have only acquired the device for the last three years, and expect it to have a long service life, similar to other tech products such as the iPhone, which has been supported for over six years. Herbert has security standards for hardware wallets. They are more demanding and should be overcome Smartphone.
If you collect nanos from a drawer at the end of 2026, they may not work with the application you are using or have no vulnerabilities. This means that virtually anyone with nanos must update it or risk losing money.
Zack Herbert, passport co-founder and CEO
At that point, the comparison with the iPhone may not be accurate. The iPhone operating system, an iOS version history, reveals that the first version of the phone, created in 2007, stopped receiving updates in 2009 just two years later, and the company-created iPods were stopped. But it is proof Over the years, Apple has been increasing the life support hours offered to devicesuntil Herbert reaches six years.
Furthermore, Apple We will continue to publish security updates for about 10 years.I will comment to Passport CEO for a long time since I updated my iOS. Passport CEOs don’t find technical reasons why the 10-year-old Nano ledger cannot receive security updates. “The ledger shows no indication that it will include these protective updates for the nano-S. model.
Herbert proposes open applications such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. They may be maintained by the community or by forks managed by ledgershowever, ledger live, which must approve applications on the platform, prevents that (as ledger filters help to discard fraudulent applications).
Additionally, the executive uses firmware and applications exclusively controlled by this closed system dependency – the original LEDGER to subtract autonomy to users and developers who cannot audit code or customize the solution.
Ledger applications are open source and can be maintained by the community. Bitcoin, Ethereum applications, etc. are all open source. There is no technical reason for Ledger to simply swing these applications and maintain an independent version of Nano. Or, if the ledger doesn’t want to keep them, the community can do it. Unfortunately, Ledger’s application platform is a protected space, and only Ledger can approve applications that appear in Ledger Live.
Zack Herbert, passport co-founder and CEO
Meanwhile, Herbert’s analysis goes further, suggesting potential motivation after ledger strategies, suggesting that withdrawal of support could be an incentive to generate revenue through the sale of new devices such as the Nano S Plus and Ledger Flex.
Ledger decisions do not mean that nanos will no longer function. According to Ledger, “essential actions such as sending, purchasing, selling, and accessing assets” are permitted. This leaves concerns about lack of protection against new vulnerabilities and unawareness.
«NanoS has no fundamental obstacles. It simply has much less memory and its capacity is less than the capacity of modern ledger devices. Millions of cryptocurrency users have the device Nano S. It is pointless to stop a developer from «new applications, functionality improvements, or app update improvements. Ledger does not clearly explain why he is stopping providing support. He only made ambiguous mentions of memory limitations,” the executive said.
Zach Herbert, co-founder and CEO of Passport.
In response to the point, Zack Herbert could potentially benefit your company financially with Passport Prime, an open source device in the test phase. Build in the US and compatible with KEYOS, this application platform is more forgiving than developers.
According to its website, Passport Prime allows Bitcoin to store two-factor authentication codes (2FA), security keys, additional seeds and encrypted files. Also install third-party applications that support the development community You can use the model to extend the lifespan of the user without official active support.
Passport CEO announced that your company is working in a “simple way” so that Ledger Nano users can migrate to Passport Prime.