A post by @WuBlockchain on X.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin used his Devcon 8 opening keynote in Mumbai on November 3, 2026, to argue that hardware wallet security cannot rest on trust alone and that the chips inside signing devices must themselves be verifiable. The remarks push the industry toward open, attestable silicon rather than opaque secure elements whose guarantees users must simply accept. The intervention matters because hardware wallets are the last line of defense for large ETH and token holdings, and supply-chain or firmware compromises can drain funds regardless of on-chain safeguards. Watch for wallet vendors to publish chip-level attestation and reproducible firmware, and for standards bodies to formalize verifiable hardware requirements.