Flint Wallet on Mobile Now Supports Bluetooth Ledger!

A few weeks ago, we teased you with a release the community has been waiting a long time for:

Now you can connect your Ledger Nano X hardware wallet to your Flint wallet on iOS and Android devices via Bluetooth!

Many community members have asked us for this functionality on Twitter and Discord. We are overjoyed to announce that we are one of the first wallets in the Cardano ecosystem to integrate this connectivity for mobile devices successfully.

Is there anything users need to do to receive this functionality? What does it mean for users? And how does Flint continue to innovate and stay ahead of the competition?

Bluetooth Ledger Support

It is worth noting that Bluetooth connectivity is also, and has been for a while, available for the browser extension version of Flint wallet. To use Bluetooth with their Ledger device on Flint mobile, users must upgrade to version 1.18.1 of the mobile app.

To connect to your Ledger wallet, touch the wallet button in the top right-hand corner, and select “+ ADD WALLET” at the bottom of the screen. Select Mainnet, then “Connect a hardware wallet.” Next, select “Ledger wallet” and “Connect with Bluetooth.” Follow the steps to connect your Bluetooth Ledger wallet to your mobile Flint wallet!

What Does This Mean for Users?

Adding Ledger support for a mobile wallet means that users can store their wallet’s private keys, and therefore their assets, securely in cold storage, yet have easy access to their wallet and its contents when needed. This does two things:

1. Significantly improves user security in the case that their device becomes compromised.
2. Significantly enhances the user experience when using your Ledger hardware wallet with Cardano.

The Ledger Nano X hardware wallet is the only Cardano hardware wallet with Bluetooth connectivity. All other Ledger devices, and the Trezor Model T, can be connected via USB to Android and iOS devices.

This integration, along with the recent inclusion of an open dApp browser which enables you to connect with any dApp in the Cardano ecosystem via your mobile Flint wallet, allows users of Flint mobile to seamlessly interact with dApps on mobile using the added security of their hardware wallet.

Other Recent Updates and Bug Fixes for Flint

The updates have been coming thick and fast for all implementations of Flint wallet. We’ve squashed multiple bugs too! Here’s a quick summary of some other upgrades and bug fixes we’ve implemented recently (for both Flint mobile and the Flint browser extension).

Upgrades

• Prepared for Vasil Hardfork — We have introduced upgrades for Flint wallet to ensure its continued compatibility with Cardano after the upcoming Vasil hardfork. Android users must update to at least version 1.17.1 of Flint mobile to ensure that their wallet continues to function after the hardfork event (scheduled for September 22nd)
• Increase Maximum Wallet Name Length — For the mobile version of Flint, we have more than doubled the length of the name you can give your wallet, from 10 characters to 24 characters!
• Integration of Carp — At the end of May, we released Carp, a new modular SQL indexer for Cardano. Anyone can use this open-sourced project for their wallet or dApp. After integrating it into Flint, users received a 25x increase in the loading speed of transactions and other blockchain-based information.
• Fully Open Mobile dApp Browser — A fully open mobile dApp browser allows you to connect your mobile Flint wallet with your favorite Cardano dApps.
• Milkomeda Bridge Transactions — You now have a link to transactions on the Milkomeda Bridge directly from the transaction history in Flint Wallet. This improves the user experience when interacting with the bridge by enabling you to link to your bridge transactions directly from your Flint wallet.

For a more in-depth overview of some of the upgrades to Flint wallet, see this blog post: The Flint Wallet Update You Need!

Bug Fixes

• Not Loading Byron UTxOs — Previously, Flint would not load a wallet when it had a Byron-era UTxO. This has now been fixed, and you should be able to see UTxOs from all eras of the Cardano network.
• Many Addresses — Previously, transaction histories from wallets with many addresses (e.g., from Daedalus) weren’t being merged properly. This has now been resolved.
• 1000+ NFT Wallets Crashing — Wallets holding over 1000 NFT were not paginating properly in the wallet, which was leading to crashes. This has now been resolved, and you can view all your beautiful NFTs in Flint wallet!
• Transaction Histories Failing to Load — Due to a bug with pointer address parsing, a small minority of accounts failed to load transaction histories. This has now been fixed, and transaction histories will now load correctly.
• Balances not Displaying Correctly — For some users, balances were not displaying correctly due to a configuration error relating to pagination and the transition over to Carp. This has now been fixed, and your wallet balances should be displayed correctly.

Download Flint Wallet for Mobile Now!

We listen, we innovate, we deliver. Bluetooth connectivity for Ledger devices is something the community has been asking all Cardano wallet developers for a long time. We are proud to be able to say that we are one of the first wallets in the Cardano ecosystem to answer the community’s calls and provide them with this user experience for mobile devices!

Alongside this connectivity, you can see from the list above that we have been updating Flint to improve its functionalities and the user experience significantly. These upgrades take Flint up another level, and there are more levels in sight for us to climb to as we continue to implement upgrades.

Download Flint for mobile or your browser from the Flint website right now! If you have any insights or feedback on using Flint wallet, then feel free to share them with us in our Discord. Join the chat here or follow our other social channels to keep up with the latest happening with both Flint and dcSpark!

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