Edge Wallet is Live

“​After over a year of intense development and over three months in a limited release beta, our highly anticipated multi-asset wallet is now available for all to use,” deservedly excited Edge CEO Paul Puey announced.

Most bitcoiners recognize Edge already as Airbitz, a popular wallet and bitcoin directory created in 2014. By 2015, the company had “packaged up the tools that make the Airbitz Wallet awesome into a software development kit (SDK) that developers could use for their own applications. Our ‘Edge Security’ SDK has since been integrated into top-tier blockchain projects such as Augur, Wings, and Openledger.” That SDK reliance caused the company to focus more on security, and by Fall of last year it announced the name and emphasis change.

Edge Wallet Goes Live, Includes Bitcoin Cash

Mr. Puey is a well-known institution himself within the ecosystem, and is typically a top speaker at cryptocurrency conferences around the world. Wallets are a sincere key to cryptocurrency adoption, and he views his company’s efforts as a way to simplify user experience while maintaining security. And with user holdings very often in the many thousands of dollars/fiat, confidence in the storage platform is really everything.

Nicehash, Parity, and to a degree the exchange Coincheck are all recent glaring examples of costs involved in not having the security side of hot, even multi-sig, wallets down. “Edge is an integration of three core offerings: a hyper-secure and private personal vault, a friendly usable interface for blockchain networks and services, and a single sign-on solution for decentralized applications,” Mr. Puey insists.