🔒Top 9 Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets of 2025 🔒

After seeing the Bybit team hacked for $1.4B, Radiant Capital hacked for $50M, and many other teams hacked due to not verifying signed data, I wanted to find out:

Which wallet does it best? 👇

We review all 9 in this thread!

So I spent over $1,000 to buy fresh new hardware wallets to figure out which wallet is the best for BOTH:

- Technical users
- Non-technical

Specifically, I asked, "Would I recommend this wallet to CEO Ben from Bybit?"

You can view this on YouTube:

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All hardware wallets should do 1 thing:

"Protect your private key"

Other than that, we wanted to know: which wallets help you verify your data the best?

I also wrote a blog if you would prefer that:

All hardware wallets should do 1 thing:

"Protect your private key"

Other than that, we wanted to know: which wallets help you verify your data the best?

I also wrote a blog if you would prefer that:

https://medium.com/@patrickalphac/top-9-cryptocurrency-hardware-wallets-for-2025-security-researcher-review-9fcb16d771e0

Methodology

To test these wallets, we connected them to the @safe UI through @MetaMask and both:

1. Sent a transaction
2. Signed EIP-712 data

The wallets MUST show us some data, and ideally also decode some data.

So we tested how easy it was for us to get/verify this data, AND we also checked other features like:

- Secure Element
- Open sourced
- User Experience
-  etc

Which we combined together in a simple image with the following information, along with a rating.

At the end, I will give my final recommendations. You can refer to the image at the start of this thread if you want to see more information on what went into my testing.

Let's get started.

The @Tangem wallet was very convenient but didn't show a lot of crucial information (calldata), and was closed-sourced.

I wouldn't put a lot of money in this because the wallet doesn't show any calldata! I could see it being nice as just a fast wallet of the future though.

The @CypherockWallet was a step up being open sourced, and having an actual hardware device. It was a little less convenient, but it shared the same issue as the Tangem, it didn't show any calldata on a transaction!

The @KeystoneWallet Pro 3 was ALMOST my favorite wallet, and then it fell short at the finish line.

Open sourced, and bragged about how it decodes calldata. This would have been good, but the decoding ending up truncating calldata in some instances, that's actually much worse!

The @Trezor Model T is the first "solid" wallet on our list. Open-sourced, shows all calldata, shows all signature data, the only issue is that it doesn't have a secure element.

The Trezor Safe 5 is essentially the same, just with a secure element.

This wallet could very easily be the best with a few firmware upgrades. It would be nice to be able to get calldata off the device easier, a better UI, and show message & domain hashes on EIP-712 sigs.

What the heck that's the max my thread will go

Sadly, we go back to closed-sourced with the Ledger Nano X. But the wallet, like the Trezor Model T, is still very "solid".

It just shows data in a really bizarre format, and the two button interface is quite clunky.

Just use the Ledger Flex if you want a Ledger.

So I spent over $1,000 to buy fresh new hardware wallets to figure out which wallet is the best for BOTH:

- Technical users
- Non-technical

Specifically, I asked, "Would I recommend this wallet to CEO Ben from Bybit?"

You can view this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9YmPWxAvKYY

My thread got cut off, just go watch it on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/9YmPWxAvKYY

Most OSS and accessible wallet as it integrates with Rabby has been https://bitbox.swiss/

What’s crazy to me going through the thread is how no one out of the ones listed (which are the big firms here) committed to build the ideal wallet

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Probably not - I stick to smart contracts!

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Nice writeup, been thinking about switching from Ledger. Will reference this when I do

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This is awesome, great work! Shared this internally. 

It's disappointing how few wallets expose the data and message hash.

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Hmm, very interesting reviews. 

Only a couple of hardwares pass the nood test.

I might be remembering the Grid+ project differently 🤔

@askgina.eth what's the lore behind Grid+ and how come they are making the lattice hardware wallets now.