Ledger unveils $849 Atom device with Solana Seeker app

Ledger unveiled a new touchscreen device called Atom on Oct. 15 at its Op3n conference in Paris, pitching it as a device that runs everyday apps while signing crypto transactions inside isolated hardware.

The device pairs the Android Open Source Project with a Secure Element chip running Ledger OS, the company said in its announcement. The display and touch controls sit physically apart from Android, and the device flips between Standard and Secure Mode on its own under the control of an FPGA chip. A bar at the top of the screen tells the user which mode is active, and the design blocks Standard Mode apps from seeing or interfering with Secure Mode work.

Reservations opened at $849 for a limited Founder's Edition, with a $100 fully refundable deposit, the announcement said. Orders placed after launch will cost $899. Founder's Edition buyers are promised a $50 bitcoin voucher and three months of Ledger Recover free at launch. The device is expected to ship in summer 2027, subject to product certifications including FCC approval in the United States.

Solana Mobile named Ledger as its first hardware expansion partner on the same stage, the company wrote in its announcement. The Seeker app, which combines the Solana dApp Store with a wallet, will come preinstalled and featured on the Atom home screen. Signing and approvals inside the Seeker app will run in Secure Mode backed by the Secure Element and Ledger OS, so the transaction a user checks is the one that gets signed.

The store lists more than 1,500 decentralized apps across trading, payments, gaming and AI, Solana Mobile said. Seeker has handled over $13 billion in transaction volume and 154 million transactions, and the company says it has sold more than 200,000 devices across Seeker and the earlier Saga phone. Solana Mobile opened its software stack to other Android manufacturers in March 2026, and hardware makers that integrate it can earn rewards in SKR, the ecosystem token that also rewards users and developers.

"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, in the Solana Mobile announcement. Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs, said the Seeker phone proved what a crypto-native mobile community can do, with over a thousand apps and billions in volume from more than 100,000 users, in the companion release. Existing Seeker phones will stay fully supported.

The hardware specs include a 6.77-inch OLED display, a rear camera, a 4,000mAh battery and a Qualcomm Dragonwing chip, Decrypt reported. The device carries a data-only eSIM and a hardware privacy switch that cuts power to the camera and microphone at the circuit level. It runs third-party apps, sends encrypted messages between Atom devices, and can authorize requests from AI agents.

Ledger also announced Agent Intent, a system that lets AI agents read data and propose actions without holding private keys, with each sensitive action approved physically on the device, the company said. The OpenClaw application will come preloaded, and exchange Kraken is exploring support that would let its clients review and Clear Sign transactions on the Trusted Display. The release describes these integrations as explorations and early plans rather than finished products.

Tamper resistance is central to the pitch. The packaging will carry new anti-opening measures, and the device is designed to detect whether the enclosure has been opened or the display removed, with added protections around the Secure Element, microcontroller and FPGA, the announcement said. The Atom will be sold only through Ledger's official site. It is designed to be compatible with NIST post-quantum standards, with post-quantum cryptography accelerated in the secure hardware, and it supports GPG and OpenPGP message encryption that the messaging app itself never sees in plain text.

"In a world where AI lets attackers target anyone, digital freedom is no longer a nice-to-have. It is a requirement," said Pascal Gauthier, chairman and CEO of Ledger, in the announcement. "For twelve years, we protected your money. Ledger Atom protects everything you own online."

The launch lands during an active investigation. Ledger's Donjon team found an implant in a wallet sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis that reads the 24-word recovery phrase from the screen during setup and sends it out over LTE, and onchain investigator Specter traced more than $86 million in suspected thefts, a figure Ledger says it has not verified, Decrypt reported. Ledger has asked resellers in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Hong Kong to suspend sales and pull devices from shelves while the investigation continues.