Ledger's $849 Atom lands in 2027 — because nothing says "trust me" like a touchscreen 🔐

French hardware wallet maker Ledger unveiled Atom on Thursday at its Op3n conference in Paris, an $849 Android-powered device that pairs a crypto wallet with everyday apps and adds tamper protections the company says would have blocked malicious implants recently discovered in wallets sold through an authorized Asian reseller. Atom ships with Solana's Seeker app preinstalled after Solana Mobile named Ledger its first hardware expansion partner, and the device is expected to begin shipping in summer 2027.

The device runs on the Android Open Source Project and a Qualcomm Dragonwing chip, featuring a 6.77-inch OLED display, rear camera and 4,000 mAh battery, with a hardware privacy switch that physically cuts power to the camera and microphone. Sensitive operations such as signing transactions and authorising AI agent requests run in a "Secure Mode" backed by Ledger's Secure Element, and the company said Atom will also support AI agent approvals, encrypted messaging and post-quantum cryptography. "Having the Seeker app on Ledger Atom from day one just makes sense, so Ledger users get access to the Solana ecosystem without giving up any of the security," said Ian Rogers, Ledger's chief human agency officer.

Seeker combines Solana Mobile's wallet with its Solana dapp Store, which lists more than 1,500 decentralized apps. Seeker has handled more than $13 billion in transaction volume and 154 million transactions, and Solana Mobile says it has sold more than 200,000 devices across Seeker and its earlier Saga phone. Hardware makers that integrate the stack can earn rewards in SKR, the native token of the Solana Mobile ecosystem, which also rewards users and developers. Samsung Wallet also recently added USDC transfers on Solana.

The announcement follows a security incident first surfaced on Friday in which malicious implants were found in wallets sold through authorized reseller CryptoBilis. Ledger has requested that distributors in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong suspend sales of its products, and European retail chain MediaMarkt has pulled Ledger wallets off its shelves. Asked when Atom's anti-tampering protections were developed, a Ledger spokesperson said the work was not a response to isolated incidents and did not provide a development timeline.

In a separate blog post on Thursday, Ledger said it had introduced new rules requiring authorized resellers to keep devices off display and hand them to customers at purchase, and reiterated that returned devices must never be resold. Atom will include anti-tampering and tamper-evident features from the packaging to the device itself, and reservations are open now.